Lisbon, Portugl, June 21-24

We are winding down our last day in Portugal.  Lisbon is a beautiful city with red roofs, interesting architecture, cobblestone streets, the sea and a lot of hills.  Those hills have provided a lot of good exercise.  The streets are often narrow and certainly not straight, they amble up and down the hills, following a map was next to impossible.  We managed to find good local food and drink (sangria!), some food better than others, best was pastige de natas, they are like a creme brûlée in a pastry; the not as great was the salted codfish.  Link below to a pic of the pastries-


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The attached photo is in a 16th century monastery, it's beautiful!  It's hard to see in the pic but the carvings throughout the building are amazing.  Saw a couple of churches and castles too, isn't that what you're supposed to see in Europe?  In Lisbon, many of the restaurants turn into these little night clubs called natos, basically the hosts and waitstaff start singing and playing folk/blues type music.  Some are awesome, some not so much.

Today I went on a yoga and surfing trip.  Let's just say I should stick to yoga.  Surfing was very fun to try, but definitely not going to be my sport!

Everyone has to be back on board tonight as we take off for Bilbao, Spain!