In Lisbon, we stayed in an apartment in the centre of the restaurant area. Everyone was speaking Portuguese – and eating
outdoors all hours of the day and into the night. We enjoyed people watching – and weren’t distracted by what they were
saying. Their talking was like background music. And the food was really good.
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Portugal, August 2026
We took a train to Cascais where we had a room with a view of the beach. Friends, who lived Darien, CT, then moved
to Florida and now live in Cascais, were away when we were there. We had dinner with them in Estroil a week later.
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Portugal, August 2026
Then we took a bus to Sintra. The route there was close to the ocean, so we had many views of the beautiful coastline.
In Sintra, we stayed in Lawrence’s Hotel, which has been there since 1764. The rooms have no numbers – they have names
instead of famous people who lived back then in the Romantic era. We spent an afternoon at Pena Palace, on the top of the
highest hill surrounding the town.
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Portugal, August 2026
Another bus ride got us to Porto on the Douro River. We had an apartment out near the end of the river – away from the
crowds in the city centre – and close to the end of tram line. We rode on a tram several times - and were reminded of
the times we had ridden on trams in San Francisco. Then we took a boat through the Douro Valley, and through the highest
lock in Europe, to the wine country.
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Portugal, August 2026
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