Story - Lisbon
Kalandia Web Diary
Bill Peach
Thu 2 Jul 2009 11:00
38:42.066N 009:35.8W
Crew change Richard and Dick leave and Liz Rolfs
and Gloria Dillon-White join
Lisbon is the Capital of Portugal situated on the
Rio Tejo. It has seven hills and on one is St Jorges Castle which was duly
visited for the stunning view.
We stopped at the Doca Alcantara which is just
up-river of the very large Ponte 25 April bridge (not sure what happened on that
date?), This was like Porto; a two story bridge with road and rail,
but the road part is on a metal grid rather than a metalled road surface which
made it very noisy indeed,
Various visits were made to parts of LIsbon to see
the maritime museum, the downtown area, the restaurant areas, the castle and the
cathedral.
The trams provide a good way of getting around the
town, comprising a mix of both and and new trams
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