Coimbra To Lisbon

An awesome day today, we did not take any wrong turns driving. BUT, we did do one walking at one point. Today we had time to kill so a couple of stops at Services on the motorways. We had more tolls today than anywhere in Europe. Well done AVIS for the Tolls Transponder.

We got to Lisbon a bit earlier than planned as we had Tomar as a stop which turned out to be a bit of a dump unless we missed the best part. So a couple of stops at Services on the A1 instead. Nice coffee but damned strong.

After arriving at the Hotel – Martinhal Lisbon Chiado and checking in the lady on reception was from Kathmandu. I showed her and the bloke a photo of my Top Deck bus, Woftam in Lisbon in 1983 and neither of them were born then. The lady/girl tells me she was from Nepal after I told her about doing a trip out there and back in 1982/83. Well it got us a room upgrade so all good:-)

We decided to go to the supermarket and grab some food for tonight since we were in self-catering. Options: A 150m walk to a small supermarket OR a 10 min walk to what Mr Google described as a Hypermarket. Silly us, we opted for the Hypermarket, Lisbon has a LOT of steep streets and a lot of cobbles uphill, downhill, uphill some more, downhill some more and finally found it. Then struggle back with a bag of shopping including wine.

Phew what a day.