So here I am in a deserted five star hotel with unseasonally warm and sunny weather for company. This unusual state of affairs arises from attending a work conference on Thursday/ Friday and deciding to stay on over the weekend for some R&R. Having not been anywhere sunny and warm for a while, I forgot how much I miss the sun and blue sky in England, but then again if we had this sort of weather generally I would probably have to change jobs and become a gardener or something. How anyone sits in an office all day with the sun streaming through the window is beyond me.
So Lisbon then. Strange place. Walking anywhere seems to involve super steep climbs up narrow roads and then equally steep descents down more narrow roads. Why the authorities therefore send out trucks and dustbin carts to clean the streets during the evening is a bit of a mystery because it requires relatively inebriated people to dodge trucks by pressing themselves against the walls of nearby buildings.
There's a castle, a suspiciously-familiar-I've seen-that-somewhere-before suspension bridge, and some museums which are quite interesting, but the hours everyone keeps are quite...unsociable. Most people don't go out in the evenings until very late (clubbers go on duty at 2am...TWO AM?!) and we're out of tourist season here anyway at the moment, so the place is relatively empty for a capital city during the hours Londoners are used to keeping. Still, it made getting a seat at John Malkovitch's restaurant on Friday night a bit easier.
Anyway, having done the touristy bit, I am now having some quality 'cave time' to myself by the pool. Definitely need a bit more of this and a bit less leafing through the Radio Times looking for things to put on the Sky+ box..;-)
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