{"id":1298,"date":"2018-05-05T02:22:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T09:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2018-11-17T08:46:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T16:46:15","slug":"lisboa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/lisboa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisboa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lisbon is bustling and energetic. \u00a0We like it, but it is a noisy place. \u00a0Lisbon has a vibrant mix of cultures, African, Asian, South American, and points in between, derived from the vast empire Portugal established during the exploration age. \u00a0And you can see it all, strolling through the neighborhoods, crossing the invisible boundaries that separates these cultures.\u00a0 Yet, they all blend together to make the city work.<\/p>\n

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The arrival day was typical for us. After the bus and train ride and the usual walk from the station to wherever our next airBnB place is, we are tired. Our new host, Ana Carolina, provided bread, eggs, wine and a few other things and we did not have to go out and get groceries right away. What a sweetie! The walk to the apartment was a little stressful though, as my google maps died and we had no idea where the F**** we were going and texting and calling services weren\u2019t functioning either.<\/p>\n

{Aside: so, I got a SIM card in Barcelona when we arrived here and after paying \u20ac10 for a month for 200 minutes plus 2GB data (go pound sand TELUS!) and was told that it worked everywhere including Portugal\u2026well, not so much. So, I have a phone here that has no data, no calling, and no texting\u2026kinda useless. We\u2019ve had a lot of issues with the mobile stuff since we\u2019ve been here. But I did find a new PORTUGAL plan for \u20ac3.50 for the month for 300 minutes plus data (go pound sand TELUS!). Hopefully this will make things less stressful. We don\u2019t use much data but sometimes, just sometimes…it\u2019s real helpful to get map info, access the internet, and do some texting, especially if we are lost and\/or late. Technology!…I find it confusing and a pain at times. I\u2019m pretty sure the LD people will say they\u2019ve known that for a while…right Brian?)<\/p>\n

Anyway, day one is usually groceries and some walking around to get our bearings.\u00a0 We normally spend around $50 on day one stocking up on the essentials, breakfast stuff, things for a dinner or two and something to drink.\u00a0 For example, our $50 today was for the usual bread, eggs, oranges, and bananas etc., but also included \u00bd kilo of prawns, a large \u00bd kilo of cheese, 6 pack o\u2019 beer, and a botte of port.\u00a0 Ya gotta like that!<\/p>\n

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The weather is quite warm and it\u2019s nice to finally shed our jackets.\u00a0 We\u2019ve checked out the local neighborhood of Alfama, the old arab quarter, with the usual narrow streets, great restaurants, really old churches, and even older Moorish castles.\u00a0 And on day two we went further afield into the neighborhoods of Mouraria, Graca, Baixa, Chiado, and Bairro Alto.\u00a0 These areas are the old Lisbon (circa 16th<\/sup>, 17th<\/sup>, and 18th<\/sup> century) and are very interesting to poke around in with ancient shops, restaurants, and boutiques.\u00a0 Not all of it is old though.\u00a0 Every once in a while we\u2019ll round a street corner and voila,\u00a0 there\u2019s the McDonalds, Burger King, and a large modern shopping mall.\u00a0 Lots of walking to be done yet; as with any large city, there is quite a bit to see here. Hopefully my google maps is back online so we won\u2019t need a hiking trail map.<\/p>\n

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    Lisbon is bustling and energetic. \u00a0We like it, but it is a noisy place. \u00a0Lisbon has a vibrant mix of cultures, African, Asian, South American, and points in between, derived from the vast empire Portugal established during the exploration age. \u00a0And you can see it all, strolling through the neighborhoods, crossing the invisible boundaries that separates these cultures.\u00a0 Yet, they all blend together to make the city work.     The arrival day was typical for us. After the bus and train ride and the usual walk from the station to wherever our next airBnB place is, we are tired. Our new host, Ana Carolina, provided bread, eggs,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":79,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}