breakfast, we put on our bathing suits, packed our towels and sun
block, and headed downstairs only to realize it was raining out. The
weather had made a dramatic change from the forecast the night before
which said it would be mostly sunny in Lisbon. We decided to get
changed into normal clothes, put our ponchos on, and walk up the hill
to the huge spanish department store called El Corte Ingles, or the
english cut (of cloth) in Spanish. To get there, we walked up a steep
pedestrian road through Eduardo the 7th park where there wasn't too
much to see as far as parks go. After wandering around the perimeter
of the huge department store building and finding nothing but closed
entrances, we came across an old man who spoke English and told us how
to get to the one door that was still open. When we got in, we found
that there were a bunch of bars and food places open, a supermarket
down there, and a movie theater. We ate some not so great food for
lunch then checked out the theater to find it was playing night at the
museum 2 in English. We made plans to come back that night since the
day was pretty dreary and we had been trying to find that movie in
English since Madrid.
As a result of the benadryll I took ealier and since it was still
pretty gross out, we went back to the hotel and took a short nap. When
we woke up, there wasn't a cloud in the sky and it was really hot out.
We walked downtown and visited the cathedral of se which had some cool
cloisters where they were uncovering roman ruins. After that we walked
up to the Castelo de Sao Jorge where we saw great views of the city
and river and were able to climb along the castles walls and though
the inside. We also saw a few peacocks.
We took the bus down from the castle and went to eat at a place both
of our books recommended that is famous for it's grilled chicken
called Bonjardim. We ordered a bottle of "green wine," green not
because of the color but because it is a young wine (it was actually
white wine) which is very famous in Lisbon. We ordered the chicken
which came out in under 2 minutes and was a whole chickn pretty much.
It was extremely good though, we both really liked it. On the table
was this piri-piri pepper sauce that you painted on to the chicken it
this little brush that made it spicy but really good. For desert we
had the waiter bring out his favorites and we ended up picking two of
them, a piece of something kinds like apple pie and some flan which
tasted a little too much of eggs for my liking but was good
nonetheless. Our waiter was great so we gave him a pretty solid tip (a
little over 20%, here it's customary to leave only 5-10%.
After dinner we stopped at the hotel then walked back to El Corte
Ingles to see night at the museum. The movie was funny and very
enjoyable. We kinda forgot we were in Portugal when we came out of the
theater. We also felt a little like locals, walking out with all the
Portuguese people. I'm not sure how many people visit other countries
and go to the movies there, but we were glad we did.
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