Lisbon Travel Blogs - Page 2

I went to Portugal to learn a bit about the culture and the history of this great land. I started with Lisboa. I was quite impressed with the imcredible city of seven hills. It's old....really old. When it came under Roman rule in 205 B.C. is was already 1000 years old. So, It must have much to uncover, right?!

Early in the morning on july 4th, we drove to Schiphol airport. After 2 hours we were at Schiphol airport! Ready for our trip to Portugal!!!After 2 flights and a stop in Paris, we arrived in Lisbon. After checking in to The Lisbon Dreams Guesthouse (great place by the way), we walked around town a …

I love Portugal.I am now in South Portugal, or Algarve. I arrived in the capital city, Faro, this afternoon, but I have been killing time because the hostel check-in starts at 5pm(ridiculous!). I could have gone to the beach, but I think I will let my sunburned skin rest a day before I do that.…

Doug and I met up early for breakfast in Porto, and then climbed in the mini-bus for our ride back to Lisbon to catch our plane.  The drive back was pleasant and I enjoyed the scenery.  The area around Porto is at a higher elevation than Lisbon and has many more trees.  We also saw l…

As mentioned in the last blog, Madrid is the the hub for the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).  So to go to Lisbon from Malaga, I had to catch a train back to Madrid, and then from there, catch a night train to Lisbon.  I only booked these tickets the day before, so the night train …

4 Hours In Lisbon An eclectic blend of history and modernization, 3000-year-old Lisbon was revolutionarily reconstructed after being obliterated by an 18th-century earthquake. Nevertheless, Portugal's sprawling capital won't leave you lacking for things to do during your next stopover. …

I can remember it very well. We were watching Holland compete against Sweden in the quarter finals of the EC 2004 in Portugal. A penalty shootout would decide this game's winner. Almost everyone knows Holland's history with penalty shootouts.. bad, very bad. So when it came to these penaltys, my mo…

I woke up with mixed feelings.  Today I was headed back to Chicago.  I was ready to sleep in my own bed again and wear some clean clothes.  But I was also utterly depressed that I was returning to "real life".  Traveling can be so powerfully enchanting, we tend to forget about o…

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Our classmate, Jose, is from Portugal and he organized our trip, where to go, what to do, and also introduced his friends with us. Nightlife here is the best I had in Europe. Love the clubs, nice music, good crowd and great big sofas where you could lie to rest :)

We woke up really early so we could get on the road right away. Our plan for the day was to drive down to Lisbon and stop there for a couple hours to explore and then to head down to Lagos in the Algarve and hit up the beach and find somewhere to spend the night. So we went to the office at 8:30 to…

Trip to Lisbon over new year's 2008/2009.

I loved Madeira.

Lisbon- Lisboa  (Portuguese: Lisboa, IPA: ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. It is the seat of the district of Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon Region. Its municipality has a population of 564,477, and the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2,800,000 inhabitants, the lar…

So last night, Ricardo came out and joined me, Vera and Irene - the 3 of us were going to Lisbon the next day. But since Ricardo was free and came all the way from Braga, we went out to dinner and then a nightclub and then swore we would all wake up in time to make an 8am train to Lisbon, and Ricar…