I went to Portugal for 8 days, flying from Bergamo to Lisbon and back from Faro, which is in the south of the country (€47 RT). My first 3 days were spent in Lisbon. It’s a lovely city.

Portuguese houses

Rainbow

Art 1

Art 2

The first evening I watched the sunset near the port. I love watching trains pass.

Port

Road

House

The next morning Lisbon was living its life like usual. Someone was exchanging oranges for lemons.

He will make lemonade

Another local decided to start the day with violence.

Violence

The foreigner got fed up demonstrating with a weird poster, so he hanged a picture of his important deed instead.

Important deed

And I, as a tourist, decided to visit the tourist sites.

Santa Justa Lift

View from the top

A distinguishable element of Portuguese cities is the pavement made out of white and black stones, which are often arranged in different patterns.

Portuguese pavement

Wavy

Praça do Comércio

Jeronimos Monastery

Lots of tourists.

Belem Tower

Memorial to the Portuguese Colonial War

I appreciate colours and forms.

Water

Stone

Pipes

After this I visited Cascais: a town by the ocean.

On another day I decided to visit the part of Lisbon on the other side of the river. So I took a ferry across.

The other side

On the other side, there’s a cool trendy path along the water.

Trendy

Cool

It’s much easier to appreciate the bridge from this side.

Bridge

Looks like just the one in San Francisco.

hmmm

The bridge has a top level for cars and a bottom one for trains.

Multilevel

Water transport uses an even lower level.

Ship