It's been a very long time since Susie and I have had sometime away from Quélébu together and as Sheri needed to go to Lisbon on a fact finding mission before she leads a Linblad cruise there, we decided to make a trip of it with her and Michiel.
Despite the stormy weather when we were there, we found it a very interesting city and ideal for a weekend break.
Unfortunately despite wearing a facemask on public transport links, at the airport and on the flight, I managed to get COVID. I felt pretty ill on the Monday and after a bout of uncontrollable shivering on disembarking from the aircraft at Toulouse, I took a test which confirmed all.
At the botanical gardens after a massage at The Vintage Hotel
At the tile museum
Porto-born French engineer Raul Mesnier de Ponsard designed this tower. He was a student of Gustave Eiffel to whom the tower is often wrongly attributed.
Cherry schnapps (called Ginjinha in Lisbon) in dark chocolate cups
A trip to Belém with a monument to the Portuguese explorers of the age of discovery
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