The Daily Diary of a Wandering Restaurateur
There's No Place Like Home
It's interesting to me that we have three more full days in Lisbon and no real motivation to wander around and explore
the city. In fact, we're increasingly unmotivated to do much of anything. I think we're just traveled out. In retrospect,
if we had been able to secure the award seats, we could have done what we needed to do here in about two weeks. But when
playing the "free" airline seat game, you take what you can get when you can get it.
We had great plans to at least get out and about for a few hours today. But then we thought with time getting
short, it would make sense to do a last load of laundry to be sure it could dry before we had to head for the airport hotel
Thursday morning. And then it got quite windy when we put the drying rack out on the balcony so we thought we should watch
it for a bit to be sure our underwear wouldn't end up strewn across the property. (The rack did get blown over so it was
probably a good thing we were here!)
Anyway, by the time all this transpired it was too late to go anywhere, so I made a run to the Pingo Doce Supermarket,
picked up an excellent whole roasted chicken, some roasted potatoes and a chocolate torte. It was a full scale picnic on
the kitchen table. Woo Hoo!
Thus endeth another perfect day in Lisbon ... and yeah, sometimes this is what a day of slow travel looks like!
At least the apartment has a view of the water ... specifically the mouth of the Tagus River
where it flows into the Atlantic. Like Porto, city of Lisbon is actually built along the river. The part Margene likes
most about a water view is tracking the shipping traffic that comes and goes. She has an app that gives her all the
information about every ship moving in the area -- where it came from, where it's headed, registry, size, age, passengers
... quite fascinating technology.
This morning being a work day for most, I noticed the backup of cars on the road behind the apartment. One of the major
motorways into Lisbon is a mile or two down the hill. I hate to think traffic is backed up this far just to get onto the
main road, but that appears to be a daily part of life here in the 'burbs. Another reason to stay out of the metro area.
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