First up this morning…purchase a Viva Viagem card. This is the magic way to ride public transport in Lisbon. One can ride the metro, trams and busses by waving one’s card at the fare reader. Only sold at metro stations. There was a bit of a tussle between Me and the card-selling Machine. It politely declined…
Author: Ella
Lisbon Photos
Uploading photos to a blog post is painful so we limit to a select few. For those of you who like to see more photos, we will create google photo albums and post the link. Here is a selection of photos from today. lots of roof top views. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Qo29nN5Pavz52gju7
What do you call a half zombie / half human?
I dunno, I welcome all suggestions. That’s what we felt like this morning. Halfway back from zombification. We managed to clear the cobwebs and were ready to forage for some caloric and caffeine input by 10am. The coffee kiosk across the street was just opening. Our timing was spot on. But first, we walked at…
Two old zombies arrive
Zombified, we emerged from the Lisbon airport Passport control into a wonderfully bright, sunny morning and took the easiest option for getting to our Airbnb. We hailed a taxi, which zipped in and out of traffic, did complex turns through 6-way intersections and finally dropped us on Praça das Flores, a narrow single lane road…
Touch down, Lisbon
A little dazed but here we are. Albuquerque to Denver to Newark to Lisbon.
Blast off…NOT!
(Ella) We are on a one day delay. Our flight out of ABQ was cancelled after a two hour delay while a mechanic tried to fix the hydraulics. Couldn’t be done. By then, we were toast for getting out of Albuquerque and getting somewhere that would lead us to Lisbon. We spent the next 4…
72
Grubb is 72 years old today. Happy birthday! Yay. Plus it’s our anniversary today (but not our 72nd). We decided we’d defer celebrations until we arrive in Portugal and then we will treat ourselves to a month’s vacation. It’s now 72 hours prior to departure. We are now allowed to get all the documents uploaded…
Counting down
6 days to go. I am busily looking up the latest travel apps, keeping my eye on Covid stats in Portugal (looking very good – no sign of another surge yet), reading about the history of Portugal (well, Grubb is doing the reading but he tells me stuff), learning some Portuguese (I might learn some…
Are we travel ready?
Kinda. Pretty much. It’s been a minute though. I took the opportunity to buy a new rain jacket (one can’t have too many rain jackets in New Mexico, ho, ho). Grubb splurged on a lighter-weight, smaller suitcase. Out comes the travel bin full of goodies. Neck pillows of all shapes and sizes, mini first aid…
Where to go in Portugal?
Previously mentioned, we’ve never been to Portugal. We love a mix of city and rural, art and architecture, history, natural beauty and just plain old wandering. If you’ve been to Portugal or have heard great things about some particular area or place or food or … well, whatever… please leave a comment. We started reading…
Where in the world to go?
Back in October, 2021 we started thinking about traveling again. Surely by spring of 2022, Covid will have simmered down? Little did we know… But back then, we decided on Portugal for our first swoop out of the Covid cocoon. Because we’ve never been there. The spectacular natural beauty along with the art, history, architecture…