Lisbon, Portugal
11:43 PM
Hi
Apologies for the late entry. This weekend just been was officially my last weekend of travel for Project Rainbow as I'm finishing up work here on the 14th of July for good. Anyway, before I get sentimental I better tell you about it. Mum and I left Friday night for Lisbon, Portugal which was somewhat of a novelty given the Portugal team were coming to Stuttgart to battle it out in the World Cup for 3rd/4th place against Germany.
Our flight was quite long as we had to transit in Frankurt but we still got there and checked into the Meridien. Not much was done that night as we were tired and it was late so we crashed ready for an early start Saturday. Saturday morning we quickly realised that our hotel wasn't exactly central to the action but it wasn't that far either so we just strolled down the main road in the general direction of the centre of the "old town".
We found some Elevador de Santa Justa which took people sorta up one of the hills to the side of old town which also doubles as a good lookout. I think it was built in like 1901 or something but to be perfectly honest, I can't really remember. Anyway, after that, we headed down to the water where we caught a tram up the hill on the other side of old town to where the Castelo de Sao Jorge is. We wandered around there and took in the great views and general castle structure but there were really no rooms or anything as such to speak of to go in and look at.
We then headed back down the hill to catch another tram out toward the Monastery. We grabbed lunch here then wandered to the Monument to Discoveries and again, climbed that to grab the view down the water front and back over to the Monastery. We decided not to go to the Monestary today and headed back to the hotel for some research about where to go when I finally finish. We headed out again for dinner where we went to a restaurant part owned by actor John Malkovich, Bico do Sapato. We had a really good meal and some nice champagne.
Sunday we slept in a little after drinking too much Champagne the night before before heading to the Monastery for a look around. We were a little disappointed we couldn't explore more with the public area essentially restricted to a courtyard. There were several exhibitions though that we looked around. Given our flight was at four, we didn't actually have much time for too much else so we headed back and wandered back up the main pedestrian street again taking in some last minute shopping.
Flights home were uneventful and so ends the last of my work travels. I will update once more before I leave Stuttgart as i'm not taking my laptop on the next leg of my travels.
Hope all is well, see you soon enough!
Dave
Apologies for the late entry. This weekend just been was officially my last weekend of travel for Project Rainbow as I'm finishing up work here on the 14th of July for good. Anyway, before I get sentimental I better tell you about it. Mum and I left Friday night for Lisbon, Portugal which was somewhat of a novelty given the Portugal team were coming to Stuttgart to battle it out in the World Cup for 3rd/4th place against Germany.
Our flight was quite long as we had to transit in Frankurt but we still got there and checked into the Meridien. Not much was done that night as we were tired and it was late so we crashed ready for an early start Saturday. Saturday morning we quickly realised that our hotel wasn't exactly central to the action but it wasn't that far either so we just strolled down the main road in the general direction of the centre of the "old town".
We found some Elevador de Santa Justa which took people sorta up one of the hills to the side of old town which also doubles as a good lookout. I think it was built in like 1901 or something but to be perfectly honest, I can't really remember. Anyway, after that, we headed down to the water where we caught a tram up the hill on the other side of old town to where the Castelo de Sao Jorge is. We wandered around there and took in the great views and general castle structure but there were really no rooms or anything as such to speak of to go in and look at.
We then headed back down the hill to catch another tram out toward the Monastery. We grabbed lunch here then wandered to the Monument to Discoveries and again, climbed that to grab the view down the water front and back over to the Monastery. We decided not to go to the Monestary today and headed back to the hotel for some research about where to go when I finally finish. We headed out again for dinner where we went to a restaurant part owned by actor John Malkovich, Bico do Sapato. We had a really good meal and some nice champagne.
Sunday we slept in a little after drinking too much Champagne the night before before heading to the Monastery for a look around. We were a little disappointed we couldn't explore more with the public area essentially restricted to a courtyard. There were several exhibitions though that we looked around. Given our flight was at four, we didn't actually have much time for too much else so we headed back and wandered back up the main pedestrian street again taking in some last minute shopping.
Flights home were uneventful and so ends the last of my work travels. I will update once more before I leave Stuttgart as i'm not taking my laptop on the next leg of my travels.
Hope all is well, see you soon enough!
Dave
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