After our trip out of Lisbon day 3 was spent once again in the city centre. In the morning we decided to do the second walking tour which focused on the older district of Lisbon, Alfama. This time we had a different guide and a much larger group. The tour was again very informative and took us to many different viewing spots over the city. We were also shown some great pieces of (legal) street art and were given some more history lessons on Lisbon and portuguese culture.
In the afternoon we went to a richer suburb of Lisbon, Belém, famous for a custard tart type pastry, with two german girls we had met in the hostel. Realising that we had all missed lunch we were starving and each ate our fair share of pastiés. Afterwards we visited the church attached to the monastery, the modern art museum and the Tower of Belém.
For our last full day in Portugal we took another day trip; this time to the beach. The town, called Cascais, was stunning and the weather was perfect (despite the water being a bit to cold for my liking). A few of us stopped for lunch at a restaurant and there we got advice from the family who ran it on which beach to go to. It turned out they gave us directions to a secluded bit of beach with very few people and even some shade for myself to hide in. Later on another girl and I split off from the rest and took a walk through the village itself taking time to window shop and eat more icecream than we probably needed to. That night we went to a local Fado (for want of a better word) club run by a family. The sangria there was the best we had all ever had and the music was traditional as any with patrons singing along to many of the songs.
On our final day we took a walk in the morning and had what our first tour guide told us is the best gelati in Lisbon. It was pretty darn good gelati and the people working there were super friendly. It was the perfect end to the trip, after that we went back to get our luggage from the hostel and then went straight to the airport.
Next post will be in a few days and whilst I have no photos to accompany it I will try my best to make it a good read x.
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