Country Info
- Lisbon
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
- Currency
- 10,066,253
- Population
- PT
- Country Code
Lisbon Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lisbon, Portugal
The Portuguese: An Ode to Conservatism
... old Portugal. Graffiti can be seen written along the walls just outside the campus; this is something present all around Portugal. The buildings remain minimally modernized and it seems as though the only modern necessity in the area is the subway ...
All Aboard!
... his best friend was just back from Ireland and brought him this. After copious amounts of local beer as a salute to our departure from Portugal, it was fitted that we were leaving from a spot very close to where the great explorers such as Vasco de ...
Castle Doings...
... sideways, you will see the landing artpiece that greeted us at the castle cum hotel/restaurant in Buccacio on our way to Viseu, Portugal. Harvey Bliss of CASA suggested it to us, and we enjoyed a very upscale luncheon (also see pix of "lemon icecream ...
Lisbon, I Love You
... were draining two liter bottles of coke and god knows what. While we chatted with them Olivier brought us the national drink of Portugal in plastic cups. Apparently all of the bars in that area serve drinks in plastic cups so that you can just move from ...
Now in Portugal
... of the famous Andalusian horses. Side note - now in Lisbon, we see quite a few Portuguese of African heritage. when Spain and Portugal, the two naval superpowers in the 15th century, split up the world, spain got north and south america except brazil and ...
Estar de Volta
Que estranho sentimento, este, de estar de volta depois de tanto tempo fora... Inevitavelmente, nos últimos dias antes do regresso, o viajante sente a impaciência de chegar, a pressa de estar no conforto do lar, a vontade de rever as paisagens de ...
El sueño de los muertos!! (Sleep of the dead)
... , which was cheaper than the 58 for the room in Madrid and muchhhhh better than the 7.50 for the train ride. Lisbon in general is a touristy city, with tons of French people and Americans. Most people speak varying degrees of engrish.... and ...
Regresso a Portugal
... serviu apenas para escala, não houve tempo para mais nada e num abrir e fechar de olhos já estávamos no avião com destino a Portugal (as férias passaram tão rápido :( ). Chegámos a Portugal … vamos a ver quando tempo dura a boa disposição ...