Even on vacation, sometimes especially on vacation, time gets away from me. I'm sitting in the airport hotel in Miami now having arrived last night from Madrid via JFK and waiting not to get on my way to SXM and ultimately home later today. So even though it's only 5A here it's 11A in Madrid and I'm wide awake. But this gives me an opportunity to finish this trip's diary before I get home and real life takes over again. So where were we?
Lisbon. A big city. No getting around that. But in the midst of it all there are castles and churches and cathedrals and monuments and inexpensive food (not fancy but good and really abundant) and a Starbucks (that did not, to Michael's disappointment, know what an eggnog latte was). Unfortunately, I forgot one of the major rules of sightseeing...that being that many museums etc are closed on Mondays and our one full day in Lisbon was Monday. So we took a Yellow Bus tour around and did climb around on the ramparts of the castle and strolled around a bit, but the views and the sights were mostly not particularly photo-worthy.
Tuesday we were on our way to Porto, but we couldn't leave until we got to see the San Jeronimos Monastery which didn't open until 10A. Now that's an impressive bit of architecture. Those church folks sure knew how to do ornate.
Lisbon. A big city. No getting around that. But in the midst of it all there are castles and churches and cathedrals and monuments and inexpensive food (not fancy but good and really abundant) and a Starbucks (that did not, to Michael's disappointment, know what an eggnog latte was). Unfortunately, I forgot one of the major rules of sightseeing...that being that many museums etc are closed on Mondays and our one full day in Lisbon was Monday. So we took a Yellow Bus tour around and did climb around on the ramparts of the castle and strolled around a bit, but the views and the sights were mostly not particularly photo-worthy.
Tuesday we were on our way to Porto, but we couldn't leave until we got to see the San Jeronimos Monastery which didn't open until 10A. Now that's an impressive bit of architecture. Those church folks sure knew how to do ornate.
Then we were off and running to Porto.....
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