Portugal

Now that I'm back from my 3 week trip to the Iberian pennisula I can share photos and stories and such.


LONDON
My trip started with a six hour layover in London. Which is good. I like London. I know London pretty well. So I did some shopping. I got exactly what I wanted and at a good price. People say shopping in London is expensive. I say it's only expensive when you don't know where to go or how to sale hunt or you're an idiot. No that's mean. Idiots could probably find bargins in London.


Being in a big city always makes me feel more like a real person. No offense to any Aberdeen people reading this, I'm just a big city girl.

LISBON, PORTUGAL
I got into Lisbon fairly late in the evening, about 8pm. But the weather was so nice and warm. walking out of the airport was like walking into the bathroom when the showers been running for a while as hot as possible, filling the whole room. Needless to say it was wonderful. I was so happy.

My hostel was actually on the other side of the river from Lisbon proper, but it was on top of a hill and offered great views of Lisbon. Like this one from the room I was staying in.

Lisbon is very pretty in a slightly run down magestic sort of way. I think I'd like to go back.

I was only there for 2 full days and a lot of that time I spent worry about meeting up with Kenna, who few in 24 hours after I did, and then trying to get Kenna's luggage. Kenna's luggage missed her plane and then didn't come in for 24 more hours. Just in time for us to make the train to Madrid. It was kind of a pain in the ass.

This is the monastary St. Jeronimo in Lisbon. It's really very pretty close up too. Intensely carved white stone. It almost looks like ivory.

This is me sitting in the courtyard of the monastary enjoying the sunshine, sheltered from the wind. As you can see I'm still wearing my jacket, so its not all that warm and it was windy, BUT the sun was shining which was absolutely fabulous. The whole trip was mostly sunny, except for the few days it rained. I even managed to get a tan, which hasn't happened since, I think, 2002.


This is me waiting to get on the train to Madrid. Kenna and I took a sleeper train. Which was kinda cool and totally saved on separate hostel and transport expenses. The downside? We both woke up the next morning sick. And yes, I'm totally blaming the train. However, I would recommend everyone to take a sleeper train once in their life. It's the most wonderful experience that you're supposed to sleep through.I'll talk about Madrid in the next post. Lisbon truely was lovely. I wished I had had more time to actually explore Lisbon rather than worry about sister and luggage and such.