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Took a day off. No sight seeing. Walked to the Marquis on a stick. To check out the Hop On - Off busses but have decided to do our own again just not today. Then we went searching for a Portuguese restaurant fir supper. Found the one we were looking for but it was closed until the 26th. (Pic from the internet) Followed a herd of the University students in their uniforms and capes. The was much laughing and silliness happening! We all ended up at the grocery store together. Back to our room for this And a nap. Time to go for supper and still from above snack. Ended up going to the pub on our corner for beer and fries. Followed by another trip to the store to get ice cream treats on a stick!! All in all a chillaxing day.                    🍦🍦🍦

Went exploring. Used public transport. They call this place the city hills for a reason. 😰 Three of 2 of the. 3 busses we rode refused payment. So we rode free.  1. Belem Tower. In was closed due to some work being done. So we couldn't visit. The tide was out when we were there. Built in 1515 to protect the port and  St.Jeromes Monastery.  Some detals: This 'rope' was carved stone. Impressive. 2. Jeronimos Monastery (St. Jerome) King Manuel I (1495 to 1521) built it. And also the Belem Tower. The monestary is huge the photos I took do not show that. There were very long lines to enter. We chose to skip the line and not go in. 3. Vasco de Gama monument. Vasco de Gama 1500's found a route to India around the Cape of Good Hope (Africa) which meant avoiding the Mediterranean.  4. Walking past a police station. The guards posted at the gate. ...

When we arrived at the hotel there several red vehicles. Like this one I thought it was the bomb squad. Nope just the fire department. Which is across the street. Seems they park their vehicles on the road. For the day Dave used the 'hop on hop off' map to create a walking tour. 1.Marquis de Pombal is the guy on the pedestal which is in the middle of a major round-about. Its about a block from our hotel. He was instrumental in restoring Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake. 2. Edward VII park is right behind the Marquis. We spotted student several places do stuff. Apparently some kind of on going frosh activities. Kinda looked like they should be in  Harry Potter movie. Then we say this marvelous old building. Which turned out to be an exhibition hall.  3. A longer walk to the aquaduct. Built in the 18th C .It is 58 km in total. Survived the 1755 earthquake. Was used to transport water until 1968.  3. Bot...

This was a restful day. Lazy day!  Our breakfast restaurant was closed (Sunday) so we walked down a new street. Found a couple clothing stores, a sports bar, and 2 grocery stores. No open restaurants. So ended up picking up some fresh baked goodies and having continental breakfast on our patio. This is the view from our patio. Which looks over the inner court yard.  We enter the hotel at street level and our room is on the main floor. But from our balcony we look down 4 stories. Now that is some kind of walk out basement. Picture of reception  Our room.  Went out again to buy more food and wine. Appetizer: baguette dipped in olive oil and balsamic vinegar and olives, on the balcony Main: mixed salad(lettuce, carrot, tomato, mushrooms) with chicken, little boiled potatoes. In side.  Served with  A nice Portuguese wine from the Alentejano region.               ...