Pre-Camino (part 0.5)
After a night’s limited sleep on the floor in the airport in Madrid (my word but these Spanish can talk… and talk… and talk. and play football in the airport at 4am) and a quick easyjet flight, we found ourselves in Lisbon. We dropped our bags in the hostel/hotel/pensão we would be staying in that night and went for a wander. It was the first time in Portugal for both of us and we were both impressed. The old quarter of Lisbon is picturesque and well worth strolling around. In the afternoon we took one of the hop-on, hop-off bus tours, seeing as we were going to be walking around a fair bit the next few days.
I dunno Mister Eiffel, I think it could be more elaborate
Portuguese has always sounded like Russian to me, with lots of zh sounds. We were able to read pretty much everything and understand it but the minute people started talking it was a different matter. An unaccented a sounds like the a in acceptable (either one), the e disappears and the s, z and y (and rr and occasionally the r) all sound like the g in edge. Imagine Sean Connery speaking spanish with a russian accent… (shpeedboat).
I'm not sure olives constitute carbo-loading
We stopped in bars, which are really cake shops masquerading as bars/cafes, had something traditional for lunch (feiojada… a bean stew), wandered a bit more, avoided the restaurant hawkers in the tourist heavy hotspots, goggled at the trams and Eiffel-style elevator to the barrio alto and generally did the touristy stuff until dark. The real walking wouldn’t begin until the following day.
Eat here please, we have very good menu, very good price, eat here please...
Tags: camino portugues, portugal, walking
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