More wonderful tile pictures.
We departed for Lisbon, stopped at Batalha for wine tasting. We sampled two ports and two dessert wines. I really enjoyed the almond liquor.
After our wine sampling we travelled to Fatima for lunch and to visit the Cathederal. Most of the Cathederal was closed due to restoration works.
There were amazing amount of people in the is holy place, a lot of people were seen doing penance by crawling on their knees, a very long distance to Fatima, for repentice of their sins.
Candles could be purchased and just thrown into a fire pit, there was a long line of people waiting to place their candles.
After Our Fatima visit, we continued onto Lisbon, arriving at 5.30 pm, after 1 hours rest we all got ready to go to our Fado night.
Fado is traditional in portugese, very sad poems that are sung, short and hard to understand when you do not speak portugese. An enjoyable night was had by all.
The next day we did an optional tour to Cascais, a seaside resort town where we had lunch and sampled the sardines....delicious.
After lunch onto Sintra, what a gorgeous spot, on top of a mountain, which reminded me of Sorrento without the sea. We visited the royal palace, what an amazing place. I need to do a separate blog about the royal palace due to the most amazing painted ceilings and 18th century Chinese tureens.
That evening we met Teresa, a friend that we met 2 years ago in South America, we spent an enjoyable few hours together, so wonderful to explore the city of Lisbon with a local.
View over looking Lisbon.
Gorgeous tiled buildings in Lisbon
A tour of the city revealed lots of monuments, Lisbon is a great city to visit.We also visited the Cathederal in Lison,,starting to become ABC (another bloody church).
Lison or Lisboa as the portugese like to call it has the most amazing aqueduct going over the city, no longer in use, last used in 1963.
This concludes our visit to Portugual, we stopped at a small village called Beja for lunch and then renters Spain, more to come with our Spain adventures.
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