September 13 - Lisboa

A sad day today when I arrived in Lisboa (pronounced Lish-bo-er) to discover Harry was missing. Interestingly my first thought was donde estas Harry? which I am sure was gramatically wrong, but whatever. So that was sad because I lost my travel buddy. Then I stored my stuff at the hostel and went exploring.

Down the street was the Parque Eduardo VII which basically was a big park. The streets of Lisbon are really fucking hilly and I was walking downhill away fromthe park, and the side streets all led uphill to other hills so at one point I stopped in a smaller park which was full of pigeons and a fountain. I ended up on a bench next to this semi-deranged homeless guy who would walk around the fountain pontificating to nobody and then yelling at the pigeons. After that interesting encounter I went back to the hostel after buying the cheapest lunch ever (for €2 I got an apple, a pear, a bag of honey roasted nuts, a croissant and a liter of juice).

Took a cruise up and down the Tagus river - it´s the big river to the sea in Lisbon (like the Yarra in Melbourne). Saw some pretty cool sights like the long ass Vasco da Gama bridge (which spans the river and is like 3km or something), the Belem tower and the site of the 1998 world expo.

That night I met Kaisa who is this really cute girl from Sweden at the hostel, and we went out for pizza and cerveza. She´s studying nursing and had been in Lisbon for a week and a bit so she took me around to fun places like the Barrio Alto district, which had a ton of people. That night I also met Tanya from Portugal and Kirsten from Germany, plus a girl from Brazil who didn´t speak any English but seemed kind of nice.