It´s now 2:40 and I´ve had a busy day! Shortly after my previous post, I gave up on the ticket office and decided the whole thing would be easier from the correct train station, Barreiro. This however is across the river from Lisbon, so I walked down to the port and hopped on a ferry. […]
Location: Rossio station coffee shop Weather: high cloud with tiny sunny holes After the coffee yesterday evening I returned to the restaurant I´d seen earlier. Now, it didn´t seem like such a draw: while its sign promised Fado (the local mournful singing that is apparently the window to Portugal´s soul but is more likely now […]
I´m sitting in an outdoor café in Baixa, in hillside neighbourhood overlooking the downtown area where I´m staying. I´m shivering slightly as it has cooled off with the sun set. There´s a restaurant around the corner where I want to go for dinner, but it doesnºt open until 8pm. Apparently Lisbon runs late! To kill […]
Location: Pensão Prata, Lisbon Weather: cool, grey, overcast I just finished unpacking and I´m sitting on the bed looking out at a tiled rooftop of the building next to me. The Pensão Prata is a small guest house in the heart of Lisbon, and the traffic noises coming through the open window make me wonder […]
It’s Saturday evening and I’m at the airport, looking out at the rain on the dark runways and typing away on an Internet terminal in the lounge. I’ve made it this far without thinking of anything serious I’ve forgotten. This is much better than the time a couple of years ago when I realized, while […]