LISBOA!

Lisbon, Portugal
Day 37
Saturday

Trekked to bus station 2kms and left Porto to Lisbon at 11.15am-

The trip to Lisbon was quite amazing really. Unlike Western Australia where the land is vast and desolate..the scenery is amazing. So many Eucalyptus as well. Tasmananian Blue Gums everywhere. I wonder why?

Reminisced, being that the journey took 3 1/2 hours about why we were doing the trip and how weºve accomplished what iºd been dying to do for a lifetime. I remember when Annie was 19 and left home with Pamela to go to London. And ended up staying overseas, seeing so many places, with me, the little sister, 6 years younger, putting my big sis on a pedestal, always dreaming about someday, travelling. And now itºs real. Weºre really doing it. And itºs just a big accomplishment. I really get emotional when i think about the history leading up to this trip and the reality of what weºre doing.

Greg feel slightly different because he has travelled before, in his youth when he left home to seek job opportunities when he graduated, to also working overseas later on for his work. But he says heºs never travelled as weºre doing. Where we donºt know what accomodation weºre heading for, what town weºll seek out, where weºll go and when itºll end. Itºs an exciting way of travelling and itºs true travelling. No stopping to work, just to seek the next spot.

Luxury of working and life for the last 20 years have enabled us to do this. We could never have afforded it or yearned to do it this way in our youth. Itºs the right time, now, in the present, in the now and the current. Itºs now that matters and itºs wonderful doing it together as we just completely fit together.

The first thing we saw, entering Lisboa was the 3 huge sails on the bridge! Which depict Vasco De Garma, the ocean marine explorer and navigator. We also saw monuments with him on it..as well as their most famous poet. Louizde Canios.

Arrived at Rossio metro and looked for accomodation! Went to 2 places and we were told, ªAll Completo!ª so we went back to a place we saw near the metro and went up the 75 steps to see if they had a place for us in the INN!~

They did! What a deadbeat place! Beggars at the doors, beggars at the plaza below, shower that was really dodgy and a bed that was as hard and lumpy as stone!! But! We got somewhere, so we were happy!

We went to the Square to find do some tours seeing there are English speaking people here and found two tours we could go on. But one place said we could book there, anther place said we could book there, another place said just turn up to the bus in the morning but we thought, well itºs Easter Sunday, weºll just end up in the Square looking lost! Which we did in the end! Went to dinner at the restaurante after both saying how starving we really were and found a place...and they were closed for lunch! They all seem to have lunch between 12 and 3pm!!!!

Found another place finally and had dinner there. I had cod...Sam, believe me, when i sent that message to you saying the cod was crap and Abrolhos cod is THE best in the world, i meant it! It really is!!! I couldnºt eat it. Greg had chicken and shared with me....what a guy!!!

Climbed our hundred stairs, minus the pack, and slept like logs...(on the ground!)