Day 7 - Lisbon

We got up early this morning, and were walking to the metro station by 8:15.  We met Pedro, our tuk tuk driver at about 8:45.  We spent the next three hours driving all over Lisbon, seeing the many sights, views from all the highest points of the city.  We learned about history, through the present.  He stopped often to show us various places and take our picture.  Later in the afternoon, while we were looking for places to explore, we found that we'd mostly seen it all!

Our "wheels" for today!

Statue of a Portuguese king

They were doing some road repairs and stumbled upon ruins of an ancient theater!

This is what they thought the theater had once looked like

Oldest house in Lisbon

Oldest operating bookstore

Pedro let us off at the Feira da Ladra, the bi weekly flea market.  We walked around, looking at the merchandise, and bought a few things.

Then we decided to walk to the National Tile Museum.  So many buildings and streets are decorated with tile so we were very interested in this.  It was a twenty minute walk, and we stopped on the way at a restaurant for lunch.  

Raymond's lunch looked the most interesting

Then we went through the tile museum, ending up in the cafe there for coffees and deciding on our next stop.

This tile picture, which wrapped around the room, depicted Lisbon in the 1600s

This and the next picture were in a church attached to the National Tile Museum.

We decided to go to the National Pantheon.  Unfortunately, it was exactly back where we'd come from before, right next to the flea market!  This time we took an Uber.  We walked through parts of the flea market we'd skipped before and then went to the Pantheon.  It's a beautiful building and you can climb to the top, which three of us did, and saw the beautiful views.  

The National Pantheon

Looking up to the ceiling of the Pantheon.

Looking down to the ground from the highest point of the Pantheon

On top of the Pantheon

On the terrace at the top of the Pantheon.  Lori opted not to go up there.

By this time, we were thoroughly exhausted, and we took the metro back to our rental apartment to shower and rest!  We decided to go to Laurentina Restaurant,  "O Rei Do Bacalhau" (The King of Bacalhau), otherwise known as cod.

Dinner restaurant

Raymond and I each had the Bacalhau with cream and spinach

David had the Mozambican fish and shrimp stew