2:30 pm. After a cold wet morning poking around the main sights of Evora, I´m lingering over lunch. This is partially because I´ve been somewhat taken advantage of by the owner of the nice restaurant where I chose to stop: he asked me what I wanted to drink, chose to interpret ¨fruit juice¨as ¨red wine¨, […]
Friday, March 15, 2002, 09:20 am Weather: high clouds, sprinkling rain Location: Evora town square coffee shop I have a bit of a sore throat this morning, as if I´m coming down with something, and I know exactly why. After doing some shopping and walking around downtown Lisbon yesterday I was ready to leave, so […]
Thursday, March 14, 2002, 08.00 am Weather: rain, sun, who knows? Wait 5 minutes… Location: coffee shop next to Pensão Prata I can´t believe how much I’ve lived and experienced in the last four days! Last Saturday seems an eternity ago. And it seemed that way last night when I walked up the hill to […]
Wednesday, March 13, 2002. 17.10 GMT Weather: rained all day on and off — now sunny Location: coffee show outside Baixa-Chiado station I got another early start today, making it down to the Praça do Comércio by 8:40, which gave me twenty minutes to kill before the tourist office with its precious net terminals was […]
You may note I´m having difficulty getting Blogger to show the correct post time… I´m working on it, but I´m not sure if it can be solved from here. Tuesday, 12 March 2002. 17.03 GMT Location: Commuter train from Sintra back to Lisbon Weather: Cloudy, but it stopped raining Wow, what a hike! The three […]
Tuesday, 12 March 2002. 09.10 GMT Location: Tourist office, Sintra Weather: Sunshine? Hah! More rain. I returned to the Pensão for a nap. All that walking is tiring! When I emerged, I planned to go out for a leisurely dinner before the concert. However, I was intercepted by the guest house keeper, Fernando. We conversed […]
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 […]