The pictures are:
1. Being picked up by our guide
2. The horse parade for the President of Luxembourg
3. Lunch at a street side café
4. We went shopping along this street.
We awoke to warm weather – it was up to 82 degrees during the day so we are finally in warm weather. It did rain for about 5 minutes at 2:00 pm while we were walking but this time we were prepared.
The ship docked and we were off the ship at 8:30am to meet our guide. He was a really nice guide, a little quite at the start, but warmed up to us as we went from place to place. He has lived in Lisbon all his life and has not traveled anywhere, but he did just fine with his Engli
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Lisbon is Portugal’s largest city and the capital. The Lisbon region is the wealthiest region in Portugal. The history of Lisbon dates back 300,000 years and it was a nation state in the early 12th century and therefore is one of the world’s oldest cities. It was under Roman rule from 205BC. It is a mixture of the really, really old and the new.
It was a beautiful city to visit and we spent 4 hours with our guide driving and walking around the city. The wonderful thing about an individual guide is that the car can go where a tour bus cannot, so we can get right up next to a place to visit and th
e guide will wait with the car or go in with us to explain something. Some of these streets are so narrow that a bus cannot go on them at all. And there are not parking lots for busses in cities like this in the old part.
The last stop on the tour was an old church and a monastery. When we arrived we found out that we could not get in because the President of Luxembourg was visiting. We waiting about 5 minutes to see him come out and watch the horse parade in his honor. While we were waiting, one of the guardsmen on a horse fell off his horse because of the heat – he made quite a sound but they helped him up and away they wert.
At the end of the tour, he left us out in the main square in the old city center. We then had lunch at a local restaurant and split a sandwich. They did not speak English in the restaurant and I thought they told me the sandwich was chicken, but Barb thought that it was goat!! Anyway, it was great.
We then walked about the city for the next three hours. They had some great local stores and some good tourist shops also and the prices were very reasonable. Ed bought a couple of shirts and Barb bought a bowl and some “stuff” and then we took a taxi back to the ship for some much needed relaxation time before the ship sailed.
1. Being picked up by our guide
2. The horse parade for the President of Luxembourg
3. Lunch at a street side café
4. We went shopping along this street.
We awoke to warm weather – it was up to 82 degrees during the day so we are finally in warm weather. It did rain for about 5 minutes at 2:00 pm while we were walking but this time we were prepared.
The ship docked and we were off the ship at 8:30am to meet our guide. He was a really nice guide, a little quite at the start, but warmed up to us as we went from place to place. He has lived in Lisbon all his life and has not traveled anywhere, but he did just fine with his Engli
shLisbon is Portugal’s largest city and the capital. The Lisbon region is the wealthiest region in Portugal. The history of Lisbon dates back 300,000 years and it was a nation state in the early 12th century and therefore is one of the world’s oldest cities. It was under Roman rule from 205BC. It is a mixture of the really, really old and the new.
It was a beautiful city to visit and we spent 4 hours with our guide driving and walking around the city. The wonderful thing about an individual guide is that the car can go where a tour bus cannot, so we can get right up next to a place to visit and th
e guide will wait with the car or go in with us to explain something. Some of these streets are so narrow that a bus cannot go on them at all. And there are not parking lots for busses in cities like this in the old part.The last stop on the tour was an old church and a monastery. When we arrived we found out that we could not get in because the President of Luxembourg was visiting. We waiting about 5 minutes to see him come out and watch the horse parade in his honor. While we were waiting, one of the guardsmen on a horse fell off his horse because of the heat – he made quite a sound but they helped him up and away they wert.
At the end of the tour, he left us out in the main square in the old city center. We then had lunch at a local restaurant and split a sandwich. They did not speak English in the restaurant and I thought they told me the sandwich was chicken, but Barb thought that it was goat!! Anyway, it was great.
We then walked about the city for the next three hours. They had some great local stores and some good tourist shops also and the prices were very reasonable. Ed bought a couple of shirts and Barb bought a bowl and some “stuff” and then we took a taxi back to the ship for some much needed relaxation time before the ship sailed.
Dinner was great as usual and then we saw a very good show in the show room. It was a male singer who has performed all over and he was very good.
Next of course was the casino where we joined some friends at a great table. Ed did really well.
It is now 2:30am and we are going to bed. It is Gibraltar tomorrow (acutally today) but at least we don't dock until 1:00pm.
Night
