September 29th, Lisbon, Portugal and September 30th sea day

We arrived in Lisbon in the dark, so even with the alarm for 6:30 o’clock it was DARK!  We had missed sail in, but that was ok as we had seen it before and could see it leaving. Lisbon is a very pretty city and we have always enjoy our visits here. 

We went down to breakfast and had a good one, and then to the wheelhouse bar to get our number for the buss. I talked Ed into going down early, and were we glad we did, as it was at least a mile to the bus. The Lisbon terminal is huge, I think it was new from the last time we were here. So we found our bus and chose the front seat, this was another gastronomical tour and a drive by some of the sights, that we saw in the past. So we knew we would probably not get off the bus to see them again. 

This is the famous bridge that is a copy of the golden gate, and they are quite proud of the connection. 

This is a brand new shopping mall and I wouldn’t have minded going inside and looking around, but this was a Sunday and all but the necessaries we closed, and we didn’t need to go, so we stayed on the bus.  As you can see from this photo it was an incredible day. 

There were lots of people enjoying the day, they had an iron man capitation, and various other things going on, so streets were closed and they couldn’t really show us things that were scheduled. 

We finely arrived at the restaurant about noon. And were escorted to the garden, that used to be where they stabled there horses 

This meal was  either fish or veal definitely should have both ordered the fish, as it was incredible, the veal was good but not as good as the fish. 

It was wonderful and I’m still suffering from all the wine and port they kept feeding us. 

Me and the chef

When we returned to the ship it was again the loooooong walk back, and by now it was HOT 🥵 

Sail-a-way was spectacular, and the captain came on to tell us about Lorenzo and that we weren’t going to the Azores, then he sen a revised letter later to give us more details that sounded good to us, anything to avoid the hurricane. 

Note the dolphins on the base of the bridge. 

So today is the first of Nine sea days we will have, and it is very smooth and sunny, and they decided it was also Formal night! I wish they would have waited a bit for that, but I’m sure the patter had been printed, and they didn’t want to redo them, oh well. We’re not all that excited about it......... 

Until tomorrow: