xin in france!: Lisboa

Lisbon! By the time we got to Lisbon (after 2 weeks of non stop travelling), we were getting very tired.

We stayed in a party hostel which celebrated it's 2 year old birthday on the first night we were there. However, we were just so tired we missed it. I was also very very tired of socializing by then. It's fun to meet fellow backpackers initially, but after awhile, the conversations are all the same. Where have you been?, what's there to see here?, where you come from? etc.

Another funny thing was that everyone in our room, coincidently, could speak french. We had Americans, a Venezuelan and a Canadian.

Baixa.
Lisbon was really sunny and hot, but it isn't such a touristy place so we took things easy.

We travelled around by boats, which was really cheap and offered great views of the city.

Another mode of transport is the famous pok-eye yellow trams. It's crazy to WALK because there are 7 hills in Lisboa, so by the time you walk from one point to the other you might be dead from heat stroke or exhaustion. We didn't hop on the yellow trams because they were a small and filled with pick pockets.

On the boat. Things in Portugal are cheap. Way cheaper than in France.

Bridge. Lisboa is also beside la mer! La mer, qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs, a des reflets d'argent. =) (yes i'm listening to that song as I'm writing this).

Ok I took the boat partly to see Jesus too. And I didn't know what the monument name was so I kept telling people I wanted to see Jesus when asking for directions.

HAHAHHAAHA. HELLOOOOOOOOOO JESUS! I went into a camera clicking frenzy every time the boat passed by Jesus.

A hugeeee church in Belem. The police in Lisbon are really slack; they actually stopped the car to smile at us.

We tried the Portugese Egg tart at the Pasteis de Belem, a pastry shop that is more than a hundred years old and serves the REAL THING. The darn shop was SOOOOOO CROWDED, and the portugese egg tart was two times more expensive than the normal ones in sg. Tastes more or less the same too, just a little more burnt.

All our dinners in Portugal were kinda the same: the fries-salade-meat meal that comes with a drink. They sell this meal set everywhere. Oh and the tube top I am wearing was bought in Zara and was made in Portugal. I also bought a dress from Mango that was made in Italy for 20 euros (42 sgd).