Måns and I are back from our trip to Lisbon, Portugal to celebrate our 17th anniversary. It’s the first time we’ve seen the sun in months!
We stayed in a hotel attached to the São Jorge Castle (11th century), with beautifully restored rooms, an amazing breakfast buffet in an inner courtyard, a free bottle of port wine in the room every day and…. peacocks! Peacocks everywhere! Beautiful to see, not so beautiful to hear. If you’ve never heard a peacock’s screech call, look up a video. It’s an effective alarm clock.
We mostly ate food – roast chicken with piri piri sauce, pasteis de nata (custard tarts), and drank Port wine, Vinho Verde, and ginjinha. We visited the huge flea market, a cathedral from the 1100’s, the castle ruins, the Belém Tower, and half of a contemporary art museum. They closed the bottom floor for a fashion event and the people coming inside were just as much artworks as the paintings and sculptures.
Pictures below, you can click on them to make them bigger:
Lisbon
More Lisbon
São Jorge Castle (11th century)
Our hotel, complete with peacock guard.
Breakfast in the hotel courtyard
Another peacock!
Port wine refreshed daily in the room.
Peacocks roosting outside the hotel each night
Måns waits for his piri piri roast chicken at Bonjardim
Augusta Street Arch
Cooling off
Quite a change from the winter coat I've been wearing 5 months
Alfama neighborhood
Sé de Lisboa - Roman Cathedral - completed 1147
Heather and Måns - 17th anniversary!
Inside the Sé de Lisboa
The arch we passed every day to get to our hotel
Castle walls at night
Elevador de Santa Justa - 1902, built by Raul Mésnier, Gustave Eiffel’s apprentice.
A Ginjinha bar has been selling the famous cherry liqueur since 1840.
Belém Tower
Wait.... what city am I in again?
Måns in Lisbon
Vacation drink
Very interesting graffiti