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A travel blog entry by paveyourpath

... had 24 hour reception, and the person that checked me in was very very cute and friendly :) Win!I was extremely sleep deprived, but when I walked in to the hostel, there were two people in the dining room that immediately caught my attention. Something about them made me immediately think that we would be friends. And I was right! They turned out to be travelers from San Francisco, Shannon and Zach. Us Californians just speak the same language sometimes, and I find ...

Off to Portugal

A travel blog entry by jen.samson

... stolen is Ment to be allowed, although there was a few dodgy looking stalls..... First time being warned about pick pocketers, a girl and lost her necklace and one went past and tried to get her bag. The people here aren't very friendly from what we have seen so far, makes it difficult not knowing much of he language and noone willing to help you try. But overall another beautiful place and very glad I got to see it ...

Regal day trips and journey's end

A travel blog entry by williamluff

... that we refuse to part with our cash.

Finally just by the Rossio we stumble upon the best restaurant of our visit. The tiled and cooling
environs of Leao d'Ouro restaurant, which has been serving since 1842, are a refined and beautiful place for us to spend an hour out of the intense afternoon heat. It also serves a wonderful lunch special of just 8 Euros a head for fish so we tuck into fabulous salmon and sea bass, washed down with a fabulous vino verdhe all for ...

A diamond in the rough

A travel blog entry by greg_and_claire

... and is the traditional home of Port Wine. Fancy that, Port comes from Porto in Portugal! The grapes are actually grown in the Douro Valley in the hills to the east but all the main Port Cellars send the grapes down the river to Porto to be processed. All the big names are strung along the south bank of the river and we spent an afternoon wandering along the esplanade and sampling a couple of the different brands. Unlike at home, here Port comes in ...

More of Lisbon

A travel blog entry by shultz

... Belem Tower. It was used to guard the entrance to the port in Lisbon and the Royal Coach Museum which has dozens of ornate horse drawn coaches, some of them many hundreds of years old. Unfortunately the camera battery gave up in the coach museum so we have only one blurry picture from there.
We went back to the wine bar we visited the first day (Wine Bar do Castelo on Rua Bartolomeu de Gusmao, if anyone happens to be coming to Lisbon, stop in ...