Doors

13.12.2013

 

Before leaving Lisbon I wanted to see the castle which has one of the greatest views of the whole city.

My first thought though was "how are we going to get all that high up?"! Riley had the answer and just told me to follow her and I did what I was told. We walked this big hill that seemed to be endless and when we got to the top we realized that there was an elevator that could have taken us straight up...ugh -_-

At least we got our little morning exercise! 

The girls got mad at me because I kept taking pictures of doors all the time and I don't blame them. I find them fascinating, what can I say!

Up we go to the castle!



Powerrrrrr



This was the amazing view the girls were talking about and I must admit that it was beautiful!

More doors...

These portuguese people have weird cars.

 By the time we got back to the hostel me and Lulu had to pack our things as we had to leave Lisbon that night. Lulu's destination was Budapest and I had to catch my bus back to Sevilla where I stayed for a day before going back to Greece.

This was the last picture we took of the three of us at the metro station. We don't know when we are going to see each other again, but good friends always find their way to get back together! I will miss you crazy ladies!

 

Karoliina

Cerveja Cerveja

10.12.2013

Our adventure in Portugal continued and we (Lulu, Riley, me and Simon (the Austrian guy from the hostel)) decided to party hard and experience the night life of Lisbon at last! We started with the small bars and ended up to the so called pink street where all the clubs where. We kept meeting new people and in some magical way beer kept coming and coming (dangerous)! Among all the beer we got, one very nice portuguese guy offered to buy us french fries for a change and I was so grateful(food is always welcome!)! Once the clock hit 6 the party was over and we headed back to the hostel. It was pretty hopeless trying to give directions to the taxi driver so all we kept saying was en frente, en frente ( straight, straight). In the end we found our way back and we all went straight to bed.

The next morning I got a message from Riley on facebook telling me she and Lulu were dying in their room. Party hard turned out to be a bad option for them as they suffered a terrible hangover for the rest of the day. Lesson learned: Don't let people offer you beer! (unless it's french fries)

12.12.2013

It was again one of those days where we just walked and walked...

 save the poor dog from that man!

Lulu :)

At some point after walking for hours and hours we found this guy selling scarves and jewelleries on the street. Lulu just started going crazy and eventually we all went wild! You can imagine three girls just running from one thing to another and trying to figure out which colour looks better with their skin colour. Fortunately, we ended up buying a bunch of stuff which made him really happy!

Christmas lights in Lisbon!

 There was no more crazy nights and beer after that. Instead we had a quite night and as good girls we are we watched a movie.

 

The end

 

Karoliina

Reunited in Portugal

Hey you there! It's been a hell of a ride going back and forth from one place to another, but I am finally back home. After sleeping with six people in the same room the last two months I definitely appreciate my privacy back home.

Before that though I am going to share my last week of travelling around as my last destination (for now) was Lisbon. My friends Riley and Lulu were working at a hostel there and as I had quit my job in Sevilla Inn, I decided to reunite with my friends before going back home and it was definitely worth it!

6.12.2013

Just by thinking that I had to go through a 7 hour bus ride didn't make me very excited about the whole trip. The worse part came when I stepped my foot inside the bus and almost all the passengers were angry looking males...scary! That was actually not as bad as the smell of man sweat and feet, oh my! Gladly I found a seat next to a guy who didn't look that angry and thankfully I passed out for the whole bus ride till we arrived to Lisbon. When we got there I was so confused because it felt as a two hour bus ride so I started asking people "Are we seriously in Lisbon?" and everybody was staring at me as if I was totally crazy. I know how to make a total fool of myself and I do it well!

As I had no idea how to get to the hostel I got myself a taxi (fancy,fancy!) and with my Spanish I was able to communicate with the driver. Apparently he understood what I told him and thankfully he took me to the right place (score!). The girls didn't know I was coming that early so I surprised them when they were sleeping heheeeee.

On my first day in Lisbon we took a long long walk with Riley and went to this really nice flee market that took us ages to get to. The city had so many hills that I got really sweaty by the time we got all the way up. I had never been to a city before that had so many streets going that high up.

 After a long time living in Sevilla I finally got to see the ocean <3

 8.12.2013

The adventure continued with the girls and they took me to places I had never seen before...it was magic!

 It is just impossible to get all of us look good in one picture, what can you do!

 I loved the graffiti they had in Lisbon. Not all of them were very pretty, but some of them were pretty cool!

 These pedestrian streets were not made for couples. Only single people aloud!

 What was I telling you about the steep streets?! Now you can imagine how more or less all the streets were like that!

 Gladly the city center was quite flat, phew!

 We also visited a museum about design, but I didn't get to take many pictures as a woman started yelling at me "No pictures aloud inside the museum!". Here is at least Lulu with a cute car :)

Riley!!

 After the museum I tried for the first time pasteis de Belem which is some kind of traditional Portuguese pastry with a creamy filling...very good indeed, but it was rather too small I would say :/

Lulu, the mysterious woman...

 ...and me, the hysterical one

 feet love

 The day ended and we were happy to go back to the hostel after all that walking we had done. We enjoyed our evening with a cup of tea and the TV show catfish on MTV and life was good.

 

More to come!

 

Karoliina