Lisbon, the unique streets and sightseeing

Lisbon, the unique streets and sightseeing 

Hello you guys

As I promised you, I’m going to tell you about my wonderful and very exiting study trip to Lisbon before the Easter holiday.

We were very exited, because before going we had to do some research about Portugal’s beautiful capital Lisbon and our teachers also had made a plan for the next days. And the weather forecast was a lot better than in Denmark, between 10-14 degrees Celsius and sunshine.

Beside that we were also looking forward to stay together with our classmates for a whole week. Some of them are actually my best friends so it was fantastic to go on a trip with them.

I’m just shortly going to list some of the things that we were going to see:

The first day we went on a treasure hunt, where we were going to take pictures of what we saw for instance the buildings our some of their street art, which Lisbon is very know for, and we answered some questions.

This is one of Lisbon's unique buildings with mosaic 

                     























On this picture you see one of the beautiful street arts that you could find in the streets
of Lisbon. But this picture is special, because Siv my classmate tries to copy the lady, and as you see she did it pretty good. 

Later on we went into a Cathedral in Lisbon called Sé, which was very beautiful it was built around 1147 and the Portuguese are Catholics. 

This is the Sé Cathedral in Lisbon on the outside 

This is inside the Sé Cathedral, as you see the roof is very artistic

After that we had lunch at a place called The Timeout Market. It reminded me a little bit about Paper Island in Copenhagen, it is a street foot market. Normally I love these places, because you can chose between various dishes from different cultures. But that was a little bit more difficult than we had expected. Because the places where we wanted the food had closed except the pizzeria, but the rest was first going to open, when our lunch break was finished, so we went for pizza. Suddenly the light went out, so we were quite pleased that we got our food before it happened. Luckily for us, the door was open, so we could still see and eat our food.

Time for lunch at the Timeout Market

We took the train to Belém, where we were going to see the Jeronimos monastery aka. Moisteiro dos Jeronimos, before we went inside we heard one of our homemade podcasts, which we had made for everything that we were going to see in Lisbon. So we had some kind of prior understanding of what we were going to see even though our teachers had arrange a tourist guide who spoke English. Which was really lovely, because then we could understand what she was talking about. The tour itself continued for about one and a half hours at the  Jeronimos Monastery.

This was how the Jeronimos Monastery looked like on the outside. The thing about this Monastery is that it was meant to take 8 years to built it, but it took over a 100 years.  

Just take a look at all these beautiful details

Then we went to the Torre de Belém and that was quite interesting because to get inside The Torre de Belém you have to cross a bridge and the Torre was laying in the sea and the water level was high, so it was like a game, who could avoid getting wet when crossing the bridge.

But with that being said the tourist guide was really good at telling about the monastery in a way that made it interesting and not boring even though it was cultural. 

Torre de Belém as you see it was at the sea 

This is the bridge you are going to cross

For you, who are inspired by my strip, I’ll advice you to bring a scarf and a warm jacket, because even though it was like spring, you have to notice, that during all seasons there is a cold wind blowing, so bring a scarf - I didn’t.