Lisbon, Portugal

We docked at Lisbon (the capital). It was a clean, well built dock quite different from the Tahitian dock. We went inside the terminus and as usual it started raining cats and dogs! When it stopped we hired a taxi to the shops. As we walked along we noticed the pavements were made of about four inch square stones, black-and-white, set into patterns.

The “shops” were extremely small and had about three storeys on top of them, gargoyles dripping water from the top. Most of them were either souvenir shops or Omega watch shops. We walked further on into a big square with someone’s statue in it, surrounded by blooming flowers.

We took a tram to the top of a hill and went to a lookout. We saw a panorama view of Lisbon (a bit like Naples) with a tile map table as well. We walked through some narrow cobblestone streets on to ground level and had a gruelling walk home.

In the afternoon we went to Estoril in a taxi with a driver who couldn’t speak English. It was a beautiful place with a wide bay view.