Portugal - Day 1 5/12/16

3:20 pm England/Portugal time (what is the name of this time zone anyway?) On the plane from Heathrow to Lisbon after an uneventul redeye. Flew through airport security at LAX thanks to being given TSA Pre-check despite not paying for it. Then lucked out with an empty middle seat next to me. Couldn't have asked for a better start to this adventure! The co-captain was a woman! Amazing!

Luckily the nightmare of Heathrow wasn't too terrible because it was midday and not that busy. You have to take out your iPad at Heathrow, but you don't have to take off your shoes? oh that makes sense.

The flight to Lisbon is full so they made almost everyone gate-check rolling bags. Really hoping my flimsy little lightweight bag makes it in one piece!

11:15pm - back at our lovely apartment after an eventful day. The Airbnb ads do not lie, it is really up many many flights of stairs! But we have a view of the convent on one side and the castle on the other so that is pretty cool. Unfortunately the wifi seems to have stopped working so I'm not sure when this will actually get posted.

Anyway, after traffic and a long wait at the taxi stand we got to the apartment around 7pm, took a quick walk, and found a little restaurant that serves Portuguese small plates called Antonia in the Bairro Alto. We split an amazing sausage, cheese plate, and mushroom dishes. Plus a glass of wine each and only about 20 euros!

Now it's time to somehow find a way to sleep because we have a long day planned tomorrow!!!

Working on the pictures....