Tuesday, April 3

Foraging

After our first night in Lisboa, we quickly established a routine: out for café (uma bica for Susan - uma bica pingada for Steve) at Doce Estrela; back to the apartment for breakfast (yogurt - fresh fruit - bread); up the hill to the Mercado de Campo de Ourique for various foodstuffs; across the street from the market to a belha d'ouro for another café accompanied by the wonderful pasteis de nata (which are excellent at this pastelaria!).

Today's major task was to travel (on the excellent transit system in Lisboa) to the Instituto Geográfico do Exército in northeast Lisboa for some maps that we will use later on this trip when we rent a car and leave Lisboa. They were very nice at the Instituto and we bought what looks to be an excellent 1:250,000 scale map of the entire country (in easy-to-use book form).

This pursuit was actually our second map-seeking expedition here. On Monday, while we were waiting for our apartment to be available (see previous post), we walked to the Instituto Geográfico Português, where we got a few topographical maps (1:50,000 scale) of a couple of the places we'll be staying later on this visit. Steve (aka map boy) had been corresponding with a very nice man at the IGP (João Carvalho), so we knew they had some maps that we would find useful. And, they look great.

The weather is improving - a solid 2.0 today.

Our traveling slogan is No hurry, no worry
Steve Knowles | Susan Markanen

1 Comments:

At April 5, 2007 4:58 PM , Izzi said...

"...and we bought would looks ..."???

Eu não compreendo?!

 

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