Portugal! October 28-31

I stayed three nights in Lisbon Portugal in October right after the Basque trip. Lisbon is an interesting city because it has some really old parts, some really nice parts, some really touristy parts and some really rundown parts. It is a very industrial city and a river runs through it so there are a lot of industrial areas right on the river. We stayed at a really cool hostel, the people working there as well as staying there were super nice. I went with my two friends Danae and Nina. 

We took a boat ride on the river, it was really fun and cool because we got to see the city from another side. As you can see in the back here there are two popular land marks one is the Jesus with open arms like in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, As well as the sister bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. 

This is a view of the main square of the area of Lisbon we were staying in, Belem.

Danae and I infront of one of the popular monuments on the river. 

This is the type of old train car that we used to get around the city, they were seriously about to fall apart but it was really fun. 

Pastel Belem, the famous pastry from Belem.

Nina me and Danae in front of the monument called discoveries.

In the Monastery, it was so intricate.

Me by one of the many poles that are so intricately detailed inside the Monastery.

Discoveries monument with the bridge in the back.

We left right before Halloween but the last night there the owner of the hostel wanted to carve a pumpkin and he said he had never done it before and so I offered to help. He was so impressed with my carving skills and everyone in the hostel loved it because they had never seen one before. Here is Danae and I behind my pumpkin.

Lisbon is a really hilly city so we did a lot of hiking and here is a photo from on of the hills we hiked up to.

The beautiful sunset. <3

Portugal is an interesting place to go if you speak Spanish because their language looks similar to spanish but sounds like French and German mixed together or something crazy, and I had no idea what they were saying. People understood us better when we were speaking english better than Spanish it surprised me that more people spoke English than Spanish.