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- Sep 16, 2023
- ☁️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 21 m
- PortugalFaroLagosTerracota Praça Luís de Camões37°6’3” N 8°40’26” W
Portugal
September 16, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 22 °CAfter a good amount of time and fun in Spain, it was time to move onto Portugal. I have 6 days until my flight out of Porto, and i am spending about 3 days in Lagos, 2 in Lisbon, and one in Porto before my flight leaves. I would love to have spent more time here as I have heard great things about Portugal but I'm going to have to fill my days with walking and site seeing to make up for a shorter stint in each location. After an early wake-up and a coffee, I jumped on the bus and began the 5-hour trip. Upon my arrival, the sim card that I had decided to buy to get me through the last couple weeks of my trip decided to shit itself. This left me with no idea how to get to my hostel. After wandering and eventually finding some free wifi, I made my way to the hostel to check in. As I checked in, I met a girl from Hobart, quite a rarity in Europe, and essentially ended up following her everywhere around Lagos. She was cool and had a functional phone, so this way, I wouldn't get lost. We went for a hunt for some food and eventually found somewhere with cheap pizza and went and ate it along the river walk. After this, we quickly popped in to see what the beaches had on offer close to the hostel, and they were quite pretty. I was excited to have time to go tomorrow, but it was already afternoon, and it was actually quite cold, so we figured we'd head back to the hostel. The hostel was great and very social, I met lots of people from all over the world (although still mostly Australians), and we chatted for hours with each other in the common room. Although the original plan was to not go out, our arms turned to rubber at about 10 o'clock. Despite being late for me, in Portugal, people don't go out until 12 at the earliest, so we still had time to drink and head out. Although I'm not normally a drinker of spirits, the time restrictions and cheap prices encouraged me to choose vodka as my drink for the night. After quite a few shots, we hit the town and had a great night. There was a group of Kiwi guys that we met, and they were a lot of fun to hang out with.Read more