It was the best vacation I could have asked for after the intensity of Morocco. Getting there was a bit hectic since we traveled straight from Morocco to Portugal basically. We realized that we were going to be in 3 countries and 2 continents all in a 24 hour period. Call us crazy, cause we were.
Once arriving in Lisbon, we were greeted with SUNSHINE! It was greatly appreciated after the rainyness of Morocco. We basically rested the first night upon arriving there so that we could hit up the town with new energy in the morning.
Our first day we decided to sight see the town. Apparently Lisbon looks a lot like San Fransisco but since I've never been, I got to experience everything newly. The city is built on all types of hills though, like our walk to our hostel the first day felt like we were climbing a mountain just to get there. The roads and sidewalks are all basically this slick rock so add that to attempting to climb up or walk down steep hills and I was a clutzy slipping mess. Here's one of the really cool, yet trippy, pictures of the roads we were walking on.
The best way to sight see we learned was to take the trolley from the hostel to one of the lookout points over Lisbon and then start walking back towards the hostel. The man was right! We did that exactly that and ran into a monastery, cathedral, roman ruins, and even a castle! The monastery was pretty, as was the cathedral, the roman ruins were seriously found by chance because we got lost more or less, but the castle was definitely my favorite. I've never been to a legit castle before! It had the cool towers, stones, and even place for a moat. We had a blast taking all sorts of fun pictures. Below are some fun pictures we took =)
Portugal Day number 2 was just as great if not better! We went to the beach!! It took us awhile to get there because we didn't know where the train station was; every person we asked kept saying just a little further straight then take a left..it eventually became our motto whenever we got lost. Once we finally go to the right one, we hopped right on and wahlah! to the beach we go. It was so mind altering. It was February 4th and I was at a beach in Portugal--those things just don't happen to a girl from Iowa! I was supposed to be bundled up watching the giant snow storm roll in, not prancing along the beach with my toes in the sand! It was crazy awesome. Once again, more fun pictures.
After the funness of the beach, we took the train to a different stop in order to find these, apparently famous, custard tarts. We couldn't remember the address of it or anything so when we got off we just started walking towards this lit up building and fountain area that we had seen on the ride in. And what do we find? The famous place! What luck! These babies were DELICIOUS! and only .90 euro (so a little over a dollar)...so we got seconds =P It was such a cool and lively building too. 
So much fun. I would advise anyone to go there since it was so beautiful and lively yet relaxing. It was, as I said earlier, perfect.
He explorado, soñado, y descubrió
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