14th March. Lisbon, at last. We flew, without incident this time, from Bristol, arriving at our apartment in the Rua de Sao Paulo near the Barrio Alto in the old centre at about 7:00pm, to be met by Catia, who recommended a rooftop tapas restaurant in the next road. All seems good. The apartment building is a converted seventeenth-century convent, so expecting to see a ghostly nun or two during the night, depending on the amount of vinho verde we drink.
15th March. We went on a long walk around central Lisbon, to get our bearings:
16th March. We took a tram to Belam, walking back along the coast:
17th March (still brilliant weather). We walked through the Baixa Chiado area and up the Avenida Da Liberdade to the Marquês de Pombal monument at the top. Then the National Natural History Museum, which reminded us of the Eden Project in Cornwall. Then to a seventeenth century aqueduct and back, via various parks, to the apartment. Evening in al fresco restaurant down the road:
18th March.Train to Cascais, fab lunch in fish market, snoozed, paddled and read on beach. Proper tourists!
19th March. Lazy-ish Sunday in Lisbon finding places previously missed. Back along the beach accompanied by live bands and via the bun fight that is the Time Out central market:
20th March. Took another train journey (from the northern Rossio station) to Sintra, which, being higher and a little colder than Lisbon, had the feel of an Indian hill station.
21st March. Last day in Lisbon. Weather has been brilliant, specially for March. Long wait at airport but home safely mid-evening.
Martin's Mag. 
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