Lisbon (Lisboa), like San Francisco but the streets are narrower!

Ok, I’m getting behind in these posts, as I write this we are on a bus from Faro, Portugal to Seville, Spain. It’s time to get caught up!

After hiking the Castle of the Moors in the morning, we drove to our new Airbnb in the neighborhood of Graca, Lisbon. The streets here are crazy-hilly with many one-ways and roundabouts to negotiate-think of San Francisco ‘s Lombard street on steroids. I also found out that when you are going the wrong way on Lisbon streets there are no street signs pointing in your direction to read!?! But as usual there are plenty of gesturing pedestrians and honking drivers to point you in the right direction, if you can find a place to turn around😩.

Luis was our Airbnb host in Graca and had prepared us sausage, cheese, olives and wine for our arrival😋. We had a great view of the Lisbon Bay, ferries and the National Pantheon.

Our days in Lisbon were spent visiting the local churches, castles, viewpoints and looking at the various street art that is very popular in Lisbon. The graffiti in Portugal is much more art-like than in America and you find it in some unusual places. Sometimes, the graffiti is even state solicited, sponsored and protected.

Keeping with our standard of “One meal out a day” we had ventured out to find a local spot we saw earlier -but it was closed -so venturing further we found a great Cape Verde African Restaurant. On the recommendation of the cook we had the Cachupa da Carne, meat stew-tasty.

Wanting a change of pace, we did a Lisbon food tour which was expensive but good. The theme was a mix of old & new foods and Lisbon’s culture & history. It was a well spent 3 hour walking/learning/eating/drinking tour. We were stuffed, learned and tired at the end.