7:10pm Portugal time - back at the apartment (with working wifi hurrah!) after a long day. Left around 8am, took a look through Lisbons main market, the Mercado da Ribeira, and made our way to our walking tour. stopped for breakfast where I had a ridiculous cake made of cookies and coffee cream.
The walking tour was over 3.5 hours and covered basically the whole city. There were these random sporadic downpours, which I was embarrassingly unprepared for. We ended up near the castle, which we decided was probably not worth the entry fee. Had lunch outdoors, a delicious fried chicken, and took tram 28 back to Chiado and visited the really cool convento do Carmo ruins, the Sao Roque church, and a great viewpoint overlooking the city. stopped at a chocolate shop I had read about and obviously bought my weight in fancy chocolate, then stopped in another chocolate shop I read about and had a piece of the most incredible chocolate cake you can imagine - half sponge, half mousse, all delicious. We also stopped by a famous ceramics shop and bought a couple things.
11:45pm - back at the apartment after a looong day. Went back to the Bairro Alto area to find somewhere cute to eat for fado music. The place I read about was all booked up so we made a reservation for tomorrow night and ate across the street at Retiro dos Sentidos. We split a bottle of delicious vinho verde and I had steak in some cheesy sauce with fries. Pretty good!! Oddly enough, three pace only accepted Portuguese credit cards, never encountered that before.
26,260 steps and 10.45 miles walked plus 92 floors - thanks hilly Lisbon!
26,260 steps and 10.45 miles walked plus 92 floors - thanks hilly Lisbon!
Keeping this short because it's really late and we have a very long day with an early start planned tomorrow. Hopefully I can catch up on pictures soon now that the WiFi is strong!
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