Lisbon is the hilliest city I have been to so far. I collected a couple of pictures of the most wonderful stairs in Lisbon to give an impression of what I am talking about. I thought that I had collected more, but I think the once I have will do. For the people complaining about…

To show that I’m a good host to my visitors, I’m trying to pack as many things in little time. Of course, that way I get around a lot as well. Laura was my third summer visitor. We had rent a car, but the car rental company must have made a mistake (or maybe it…

Martas farewell If you are trying to find somebody to have a good party on the streets with, try to find that guy on the roads of Lisbon. The whole street was dancing. Add caption  That’s the result of dancing in the streets to much. The first day on the road we had met Jim…

 Since Lisbon is the city of seven hills, they were quite busy to make it as comfortable as possible for its inhabitants to get up and down of them. Unfortunately, there is non straight to my place, which means, by the end of my stay I will have really compact calfs. Restauradores A thousand stairs.…

Even here in Portugal you find the rare occasion of people protesting. I wonder what all the fuss is about. 

Na semana passada eu e a minha mãe fomos ao Palácio de Monserrate. Foi construído em 1540. Muitas pessoas importantes tinham vivido lá. A família Cookrestaurou-o, depois de anos de abandono de Palácio  Em 1793 William Beckford, um novelista inglês, renovou o e alugou o jardim. Sir Francis Cook, estendeu o jardim. O imóvel tinha sido…

Estoril, Catamaran sailing My tandem partner Tânia

It had been my first visit of Sintra as a village. It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. In the surrounding hills are a couple of castles and palaces as well as a huge variety of forestial landscape. Perfect for two guys searching for an adventure, for the young at heard to…

Coimbra is only a two hour bus ride away from Lisbon. It is a cozy student city, which goes crazy once or twice a year to celebrate “Queima de Fitas”. The pictures have nothing to do with it, they just happened to be taken at the time. I don’t have any pictures of the festival of presentable…

Nicolas and I went for a run along the Rio Tejo It is so easy to make him happy

Nowadays one of Lisbons districts used to be a small fisher village. The proximity to the river made it a perfect place for seafarers to land. I saw a couple of pictures where the waterfront was a lot closer to the monastery on the next picture. But I haven’t figured out, yet, what has caused the change.    Santa Maria…

My friend Nicolas was visiting for a couple of days. At the first day we walked around the city for a bit. Actually the whole city. Unfortunately, I didn’t take many pictures. That’s just a couple of impressions.  Marques de Pombal, the guy who rebuild the center part of the city after the awful flood in 1755.…

A beautiful Saturday for GeoCaching. For people who don’t know what it is, you basically have some coordinates and some kind of GPS receiving device which allows you to hunt down those points in real live. Sometimes there are hidden treasures, sometimes a really nice location. It is a kind of way to do Sightseeing…

The other day I went for a jog and bumped into this broken dream of my childhood. How many bouncy castles can you jump on in one day?

The girls downstairs rent a car for a weekend. A came with them last Sunday for a trip to the south. Sesimba. I think I just let the pictures talk. Me on a rock, girls in front

 I sometimes find it really hard to describe how beautiful Lisbon is. Just by roaming through the little allays you can find so many staggering spots. The versatile stile in which the buildings are made. Every little house looks different. Okay, you could argue that not everything is in its best shape, but that’s probably part…

When ever Portuguese people find the time, the retire to one of the many coffee places. Usually they have a pastel and a café (which would be an espresso in other countries). The most famous once are Pastel de Nata, which means biscuit with cream .  Just the other day, watching telly, I have learned that the average…

The weather turned to be good enough to go to the beach. But still not warm enough to go for a swim. The Atlantic Ocean is freezing. One of the closer beaches is Costa de Caparica on the southern side of Rio Tejo. It is a nice touristy village. To get to the beach, we had…

After staying in a hostel for a week I managed to find a more permanent place. The people in the Alfama Patio Hostel are really nice and helped me in every possible way. It also helped to connect to other people, locals and other students. On Monday, my first night in Lisbon, Ana took me…

It has happened. I left Germany for the first time for more then just vacation. I was quite excited to leave for a new stage of life. Contrary to my expectations, the weather hasn’t been good, so far. We had one sunny day, yesterday. Besides that, only rain. And when I’m saying rain, I mean…