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Goodbye Lisbon. Hello Croydon.

It’s Lisbon! A tram (actually an elevador), a pastel de nata, a ginjinha (cherry liqueur) in a chocolate cup, and a port.

#lisbon

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. At Carcavelos beach, Lisbon for a spot of Sunday pickup.

More Santiago Calatrava (Gare do Oriente - Lisbon). To add to these previous lovelies: Ciudad de las Artes y las Sciencias - Valencia; Zubizuri - Bilbao; Puente del Alamillo - Seville (not my pic - I seem to have deleted them all!).

#calatrava #lisbon #valencia #sevilla #bilbao

Christmas in Lisbon.

#lisbon #christmas

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Black smoke getting up your nose...

They’re on every corner. Some folk must be loving the chestnuts!

#lisbon #chestnuts

The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (see yesterday). Set in the old Tejo Power Station it includes a fascinating tour of said facility, among many other wonders.

#MAAT #LIsbon #Belem

Saw this video at the wonderful MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) as part of an exhibition on the American designers, the Eames’. It gives a sense of the scale of everything.

#MAAT #Lisbon #Belem

Belem (Lisbon) attractions - Bad: Mosterio dos Jeronimos. €10 for some cloisters. Great: Museu Colecção Berardo. Huge collection of contemporary art (1900-1990). Free.

#Belem

If you’re on foot you can take the ferry across the Tagus from Cais do Sodré. This transport hub has bus, train, tram, metro and ferry stops. Beat that!

Built in 1966, the Ponte 25 de Abril was the first bridge to connect the main part of Lisbon, on the north side of the Tagus river, to Almada, on the south side. Feel like you’ve seen it before? It was built by the same company that built the San Francisco Bay Bridge and takes its colour (International Orange - #F04A00 in case you were interested) with the other San Francisco bridge, The Golden Gate.

#ponte 25 de abril #lisbon #golden gate

An actual electric car! Just on the street, charging away! It’s like the future over here! (Although all those wires make it look a bit like the past).

#Electric car

It’s funghi for starters, mains, and dessert at Santa Clara dos Cogumelos. Get there early to get a seat, I hear there’s not mushroom… . Of course, if it is full up you could always just have a drink and chat to the barman, I hear he’s a funghi…

#mushroom lisbon

Because sometimes foreign words look funny in English. (leftover from Seville)

Like a Bird on the Wire. (Hello Lisbon)

An artistic interpretation of Her Majesty?

If only plants really did have some way to turn sunlight into energy.

#Sevilla #Plant #photosynthesis #solar

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