Lisbon Portugal

6/11/2009
Lisbon, Portugal
Today we took a bus around town. We missed our stop so we decided just to ride it around till we got back. We got to see a lot of the city that we would not have otherwise. Many of the places we have been have been the older parts, this bus ride let us see some of the newer parts. It was very interesting, not near like the states. Once we arrived at our top, we walked the main center of Lisbon. There are many shops there and restaurants. Many of the shops were closed today because of the Corpus Christi Holiday. Most of the tourist stores were open. We ate lunch at an outdoor café. Casa Brasireila. Luckily they had pictures on their menu so we had a pizza. Of course pictures can be deceiving too and their menus were in Portugese. We thought we were getting a pizza with diced tomatoes, it had small ham pieces on it. It was very good. We ordered and beer and went with the ‘grande’ one. We never thought we would both have to drink a half of a gallon each, and they were only 4 euros each. That is a very good deal. I think in some places we bought a 12oz bottle for 4 euros. From there we headed back to the ship shopping along the way. We decided to walk back to the ship instead of taking the short bus ride. That short bus ride was a long walk. ‘Ships in the fore ground are further than they appear’ We did make it back in time to embark.

Tomorrow at sea,
Calvin & Dawndra