April 18-19
Driving from Seville to Lisbon, we hit our first new country in what felt like a long time. Portugal! We are definitely getting close to being burned out on all this driving. But we only have a few more days with our rental car and we need to take advantage of it!
The city was really cool with a lot of people hanging out. We mostly stayed in the old city which had beautiful buildings and a lot of hills. It reminded me a bit of Valparaiso and reminded Michael of San Fran.
Stopped along one of the hills for some beers and sunshine:
Plus there was some delicious food! This pizzeria allegedly has the Rolls Royce of Italian pizza ovens. It looked cool, but more importantly the pizza was delicious.
We also hiked up to Saõ Jorge Castle which is a Moorish castle on the highest hill in town, overlooking the city and the Tagus River.
It gave us some beautiful views of the city as well as a little time with some peacocks.
And since it had been a little while, we popped in for some Peruvian food at A Cevicheria.
Our last morning as we were heading off to Porto, we popped into this bakery for some famous pastries.
About these pastries: the bakery opened in 1837 selling “pastel de Belém” which are based off a secret recipe from the Jerónimos Monastery which was next door at the time. They sell a lot of standard bakery stuff, but the egg tart pastry (pictured above) is their specialty and the reason that busloads of people visit every day… including us. They were delicious and definitely the kind of pastry that makes you wish you had ordered three times more than necessary. I want ALL of the pastries.
Our trip to Lisbon was short but sweet with a ton of great food!