Lisbon, Portugal

At the end of September our friends Chris & Christine came to visit all the way from California.  They stayed with us for 5 days then went on to Madrid for 3 days and then we met them in Lisbon, Portugal.  This was our first time in Portugal and we had a blast.  We arrived Friday night and left Sunday evening, it was a quick trip as Jeff was busy at the office. Instead of staying at a hotel we opted to rent an apartment in Lisbon as it was the same cost as one hotel room.  The apartment was 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, kitchen, laundry, living area, etc.  It was very roomy...much larger than our apartment here in Spain. 

Friday night we walked around a bit and had dinner.

Lisbon is very hilly as you can see here.  There many sets of staircases to climb in order to get around town.  In the background you can see St. George's castle.

 Train station.

 Plaza near our apartment, in the background is St. George's castle.

Saturday we decided to take the hop on hop off bus that goes around the city.  This is the 25th of April bridge, which looks like the golden gate bridge right?  It is, it was designed/constructed by the same company that erected the golden gate bridge.

Tower of Belem.  We were able to climb to the top, but it took awhile as there was only 1 spiral staircase to go up and down. 

The ground floor in the Tower of Belem.

Here is the bridge again from the Tower, you can see the Christ statue on the right.

 Christine & Chris

I will continue the rest of our trip in another post.