Lisboa, Portugal

What a fabulous weekend away! I absolutely fell in love with the city of Lisbon (Lisboa in Spanish). I went into without many expectations and was truly blown away. We arrived Friday afternoon to our amazing hostel. It was basically everything we could have asked for and more. The six of us had our room and the manager planned our trip for us! We spent Friday walking down the road to the water. Lisbon is a port city and it was absolutely gorgeous. The street our hostel was on a pedestrian only road with many shops that we enjoyed exploring as well!

Saturday morning we were up bright and early to head to a flee market. We got to take a small yellow tram there, which made the whole experience even more exciting. The flee market has basically everything you could imagine and we all got some great gifts there! We then headed to uphill to a church which we were told by João (the manager) there was amazing view of the city! Boy was he correct! It was absolutely stunning and you could even see the castle we headed to just after. The eighth century castle was extremely fascinating, as well as provided amazing views of the entire city. We headed back down hill and found a great restaurant for lunch right on the water!

Lisbon

Me at the Castle

Saturday afternoon we headed back to the hostel to find João waiting for us ready to help us purchase tickets to a soccer match that night! After successfully getting our tickets to the game we headed back the water for sunset! We then climbed again up to another look out point, where we got to see another beautiful view of the whole city (João showed us a way to climb it instead of pay for an elevator up...we definitely worked off lunch!) We ate dinner at this same point so the entire evening was a spectacular view! We then were off to the game, Sporting vs. Porto, and absolutely had a blast!

Sporting vs. Porto

Sunday morning we enjoyed our delicious breakfast of eggs and toasts (which came with the hostel!) and were off the airport. We all were sad to say bye to Lisbon and I would have definitely stayed longer if I could! Overall it was a great weekend and I can't believe how much we saw in such little time! Off to Sevilla and Córdoba on Sunday until Tuesday (more fiestas in Spain!). Hasta luego!