Well I’ve got a bit behind as we have both been a bit unwell. Tuesday did not go well. Mike stayed in bed as needed to sleep and Barb and I went to breakfast. He was lying on the bed in the dressing room when I got up so just left my stuff open. We […]

We didn’t have the best night as Mike had a coughing fit at about 3am and took himself off to the other bedroom. He eventually got back to sleep however and had a good sleep in.  We had breakfast at the resort. It was a very nice buffet with everything you’d want/need.   Barb had some […]

We have pre-booked all our train tickets, thank goodness. Barb ordered an uber to the train station. Not the same one as yesterday or the fancy one we passed on our hop on hop off tour. Just an ordinary one. We pretty quickly attracted the attention of a super helpful senior citizen who helped us […]

Today we headed to Sintra which is a city in the hills north east of Lisbon. The city itself has a population of 300,000 including many African immigrants if the travellers join in the train are anything to go by. The train took about 45 minutes and is just a normal commuter train. The historic […]

This was the hop on hop off tour day.  We went back to the breakfast place and ordered the brunch again. This time I had the ham and cheese, which was 3€ less than the salmon. We took the bread rolls and jam home!   We first took the tram ride up around the hills. […]

We had a big day of exploring and walking around Lisbon. Still no bags, which was a worry when we set out for breakfast. We are just eating twice a day and that seems to be working well. We may go back for another brunch: sour dough bread roll with butter and jam, croissant, yoghurt […]

John kindly dropped us at the airport in Edinburgh for our flight to Lisbon. We were so glad to spend time with family in Scotland. It was a very nostalgic visit for Mike and we were sorry to leave. We will try and return sooner rather than later. We used our Priority Pass cards to […]