Upcoming holidays:

Upcoming Holidays:
16 February 2026 - New Zealand cruise on the Carnival Splendor.
12 March 2026 - Three-day cruise, Sydney to Eden return, just to sail on the Discovery Princess.
January - February 2027 - Fly to Singapore for a 28-Day Japan & Southeast Asia Grand Adventure cruise on the Sapphire Princess.
July 2027 - Fly to Auckland for a cruise to Norfolk Island on the Carnival Adventure, then a bit of time in NZ afterwards.

Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Lisbon 4 November

We actually arrived in Lisbon on the 3rd of November for an unplanned overnight stay - the 4th was our scheduled day.
On the way in, we passed the MSC Preziosa on her way out:
We had no plans for Lisbon, sadly our scheduled day there was Monday and all the sights we were interested in seeing - in particular the military and archaeological museums - close on Mondays. 
This is as close as we could get to the military museum:

As usual in cruise ports there are a lot of tour operators who wait just outside the cruise port waiting to hire people, and in Lisbon this includes a lot of operators who drive little electric tuk-tuks.  We picked up one of these at random and the driver showed us some of the sights and explained a little of Lisbon's history.



Above - castle and cathedral.  Many of the buildings in the older part of Lisbon look similar because of the huge amount of reconstruction that was needed after the 1755 earthquake.
Some of the lovely stained glass in the cathedral:
Lisbon is a very hilly city and trams are a popular way to get around:
Don't let the width of this street fool you, most of the streets in the old city are much narrower than this!
Here are a couple of views from the highest point in the city, one of them with Paul and Sandy getting in the way:

The oldest bookshop in the world, also showing off some of the beautiful tiles that adorn the outside of lots of the buildings:







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