Road Trip to Lisboa Portugal


While in Spain, we plan to enjoy the short travels to many different cities and countries. Our first adventure planned, a bus ride to Lisboa, then Lisboa to Sevilla Spain, Sevilla to Gibraltar, and from Gibraltar take a ferry to Morocco. Three countries in a weekend; well a very long weekend.
So we set off Thursday afternoon, said goodbye to our new friends in San Javier, and took off on the first part of our journey, a VERY long bus ride to Lisboa, 15 hours in fact, getting in slightly after 6am.
After a bit of a snooze at our hostel, we braved the rain, and the metro, to travel into old Lisboa, and it was well worth it. We caught the old streetcar tram, and headed off on our city tour. It was a good way for us to travel, and see the parts of the city, then decide where we wanted to stop.
Just afternoon, we were kicked off our tram because of an electricity problem, which had the whole street backed up. Lucky for us the sun chose then to pop out for the next hour or so. Our first stop on our walk was just a simple lookout point, where you could look out over the city to the water. We were even lucky enough to get a lady to snap our picture.
Next was Igreja de Santa Maria Maior, or Church of Saint Maria Maior. We skipped the 4 Euro tour, and just walk around. It was stunning, with displays of art work, and old Christian artifacts. It had high decorated ceilings, and really cool doors!
We follow the street car track back to the metro, but found many interesting stores and shops along the way. We even managed to find a
free sampling of port. Then down to the water for another look out, where poor Kristen almost got blown away, hehe. Feeling a bit tired after our long trip, we head back for our now usual siesta and then later out for dinner!!!
Check back tomorrow for Kristen’s take on our dinner in Lisboa
Xo Sarah