What to do in #Lisbon in 3 days

3 full days in Lisbon

7/18/2016

It's been a while now that I wanted to go to Lisbon and somehow I never had the time. Finally I managed and here what we did:

Accomodation

We stayed at BA Hostel and it is a great place, not the perfect one overall but it depends a lot what you are looking for.
Cleanness: excellent
Location: excellent*
Staff: super friendly
Room: a bit too basic
Breakfast: Free but very basic
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* the hostel is located right in the Erasmus corner, thus expect very crowded places, a lot of noise and dirt in the early morning. but the hostel is very well is isolated so you can't really hear from outside, but just for you to know where you go :)

Day 1

on the way towards the center we stopped in a shop where we saw they had some orange juice for some vitamin C boost too help fight the heat, but they also had some very cute local products

From the shop we slowly directed ourselves towards the metro station.

houses decoration

I love the small streets, one of the things I mostly enjoyed was just walking around.

for who does not know it already, Inditex has lower prices in ES & PT than elsewhere in the world and on top of this sales are quite nice in this part of Europe. So visiting Lisbon in July we reserved the first part of the day for....yeap you have it right...shopping :). If interested go to the Metro stop Baixa Chiado and follow the street down till the end. you'll have shops left and right then turn left there are some more over there.

Breaks are the best part of every trip so you will see us doing a lot

From here we went back to the hostel to drop all our shopping and the towards place do comercio

I liked the square a lot as it is big and not crowded. You also have the sea to take some moments to just enjoy. of course we had to pee at some point and we found worlds sexiest toilette (that's debatable)

It's not what I would except from sexy but it is at least colorful for the 1 Euro you have to pay. Anyway, then we could enjoy some beer with a view :)

From here direction Bario Alto to grab something to eat.

Rossio square

After so much walking around it was time to eat something. We stopped at Restaurante O Minhoto for some tapas.
Address: Trav. da Boa Hora, 19/21/23, 1200-063 Lisboa, Portugal

Before going to sleep, a bit of dancing at Cuba a la Vista; btw excellent Mojitos ;)

Day 2

New day, new plan, new adventures, but first things first, breakfast. Although we have free breakfast at the hostel, we decided to try the newly opened Pop cereal cafe in Bario Alto , where you can feel like a kid again and have milk with cereals in the morning

from here we went towards the St George castle. As we love walking we took advantage to enjoy the lovely streets around.

we all know that Lisbon is famous for yellow tram28 and I decided to chase all the 3 colorful trams around the city. Yellow, Red & Green :)

now you have them all, I was a bit worried I won't get the green one and at the end I ended up taking so many pictures that the tram driver even told me I have more pictures with him than his wife...oooooops :)

The walk up to the castle is very very nice. cute street decoration, a lot of street-art and some special views.

and further down the road we met Mr. Cat relaxing in the shadow without carrying for anything or anyone

on the way to the caste you'll also find a lot of people selling different things, some handmade jewelry, some selling pictures, some were singing for money, some selling fruits, all in all it make is very colorful and easy to stop everywhere to see what they offer.

creating mandals

painting with coffee

fresh fruits

we did not enter the castle as we have been told it is not really worth the money, of course it might a bit depend on your budget & interests also. so as you probably expect by now, we decided to take a break for lunch.

Restaurante Caminho Da Ronda

and right on the corner there was a national heritage house

you might think that we are done, but no!

we went back to the placa do commercio and from there garbed an Uber and went to Tower of Belen

just before heading for dinner we stopped for a coffee with something local sweets ;)

pasteis de nata

we finished our day with dinner at a tapas place, not really worth mentioning it as quality price ratio was not the best.....you can see my review on TripAdvisor if interested

Day 3

Good Morning Good Morning! all ready, we go to Sintra today...and no worries this part of the post is short as you can read the full story in a separate post.