Location: Pens\u00e3o Prata, Lisbon<\/p>\n
Weather: cool, grey, overcast<\/p>\n
I just finished unpacking and I\u00b4m sitting on the bed looking out at a tiled rooftop of the building next to me. The Pens\u00e3o Prata is a small guest house in the heart of Lisbon, and the traffic noises coming through the open window make me wonder how much sleep I\u00b4m going to get tonight. Immediately below the window is a trolleycar line, which fills the air with hissing, clanking and scraping, familiar noises to anyone who\u00b4s lived near Toronto\u00b4s streetcars.<\/p>\n
My gear all made it through the trip intact, except the wash kit which suffered from an open-capped shampoo bottle. Classic mistake. It didn\u00b4t make it out to the clothes, but the goop seems very difficult to expunge from the wash kit itself. Dousing it with water just produced an endless supply of bubbles. I suppose this is hardly a crisis, although it does seem silly that after all the travelling I\u00b4ve done I can still make this kind of basic error.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I\u00b4m going to check out the city. Apparently many of the museums are closed on Mondays, but I\u00b4ll sort out the transit system, get a sense of the layout, maybe book my next stop (Evora), and take a look around a sight or two. It\u00b4s supposed to rain later in the week so I want to have my bearings and my plans in place to minimize drenchings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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