Day 3 Lisbon

We got up this morning at our usual times, five for me and seven for Sylvia. It sure didn't take long to adjust. We had the normal breakfast. The coffee is unbelievably strong and to drink it black you have to be a tough guy...I had lots of milk. We managed an early start to continue our sightseeing duties. It was a beautiful day so we walked up through the Park Eduardo VII to the very eclectic Gulbenkian Museum. It was a great way to start the day. It's a large and very nice park, and the museum's interesting and has a little bit of everything. After the museum we walked back to a huge department store called El Conte Ingles. It takes up a whole block and has eight floors of very expensive stuff and due to stuff overload, we didn't spend a lot of time there, just enough to visit every floor. From there on our excursion took a little turn for the worse. In our attempt to find a subway stop, we again got a little turned around and we spent quite a bit of time navigating our way in and out of unparallel streets. It was after two o'clock and we were getting hungry and a little testy. A leisurely lunch with a little wine corrected that. We stopped at a place called Aprilla and had a large grilled whole sea bream (for 2)...perfect. It was definitely one of the better fish we ever ate. After lunch we found the subway and headed back to the hotel to figure out what to do next.

Ok, we figured it out. Seeing as we thought we wouldn't be hungry, we went down to the waterfront, called the Riberia, and looked for something a little different. After a long walk we found an Irish Pub called O'Gilin's that seemed exactly what we needed and in we went. It seemed rather strange though sitting in a Lisbon pub listening to a Blues band, but we enjoyed it. After a few Guiness's we walked back to the neighborhood where our hotel was and sat outside at a little cafe and spent an hour or so watching people before returning to the hotel and crashing. We did have a small pork sandwich though. Tomorrow's another day. Sylvia's pedometer registered 27,451 steps or about 12.1 miles for the day.