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| Lisbon: Shot taken with my Polaroid |
This would be the one photo that I took that pretty much sums up my entire experience of Lisbon.
It's a powerful city. The people there are really nice and helpful. There's this intensity that comes with the city though. Reminiscent of the old. Statues and memorials and museums.
The best part of the trip though, was the trip to a small town outside the main city, called Sintra. It's sort of a fairy tale town. Reminds me of Disney. We were lucky to get there on a sunny day.
We stayed at this hostel: The Lisbon Lounge Hostel. By far, this is the best hostel I have ever stayed in. EVER. And I do pretty much like to think that I travel a lot, having been to about 15 cities in the past few months or so. They have excellent service, they do tours... they pretty much have a lot of activities lined up for you, in such a way that you would not have to plan anything for yourself. They have cheap (BUT EXCELLENT!) dinners at night too.
As much as we would like to think of Portugal as the land of Nandos, it also turned out that they don't really eat Piri-piri chicken all that much. But when you do find a restaurant that serves it, it's fantastic.
Oh, and the Portuguese egg tarts in Bellum. There's only one place that's famous there. Hard to miss. Pity I can't remember the name. Heh. But man, I'd fly back to Portugal just for those egg tarts.
As you can guess, no matter how majestic Lisbon/Portugal was, the only thing that really made it worthwhile to me was the food. Yup.
