Trip to Lisbon

Hey Guys!

I´m back from my trip to Lisbon. 🇵🇹 🛫

It has been six days with a lot of amazing people.

Our journey began Saturday morning at 7.30 am.

We meet at Aarhus bus station and sat the course for Copenhagen Airport, where we later that day would fly to Lisbon with an intermedia landing in Paris, France. 🇫🇷

The bus trip to Copenhagen felt like ages. Unfortunately, I was cut off from the rest of the class in the bus. I sat beside a foreign woman that barely spoke English, most of the time I just sat there quietly looking out the window and I felt tired and a little ill.

Already the day before we left Randers, I began to feel a little (very) ill🤒. It had been a long day outside riding and taking care of the horses🐎 <3. Next time I must remember to wear more clothes 😉.

We spend a lot of time waiting that day. After a long day full of busses, airports, planes and a metro ride, we only needed to walk up the hills and stairs of Lisbon and it felt like a blessing when we were able to go to sleep.

Sunday was our first whole day in Lisbon.

We meet at the hotel´s reception at 9 am and started walking through the limestone streets of Lisbon. To see more of the city our teachers had made a treasure hunt with things to see in the neighborhood. We saw many things on the treasure hunt, but what we saw most in Lisbon was stairs…. They´re everywhere!

Lisbon may be a very beautiful city, but you don´t want to be old or disabled if you visit the town. ♿❌

Sunday were we also on a guided tour to Jerónimos Monastery and the tower of Belem. 🏰 in the tower there was an old and steep spiral stair. It was a little uncomfortable to walk down the stair that hasn´t got any rails, 😨 but the best part of the day was when the class needed to cross the bridge to and from the tower. When we crossed the bridge, waves would slam onto the path and make whoever were unfortunate to be on the bridge wet. 🏃🌊 

Back at the hotel, most people were planning to go downtown and party 🎉💃🕺🍻, but I just wanted to sleep 😴 but after some discussions, I decided to go for a pizza. 🍕

Just like Sunday, we spend most of Monday walking. Doing the night, it had been raining and the limestone street was very slippery, but we made it to the castle on the hill 🏰 🎶 (who else sang that?). The weather was very froggy and again more slippery wet stairs 😨 after lunch we had another guided tour around town this time with focus on slaves. Before the tour, me and some of my classmates decided to try a ´´tuttut´´. A ´´tuttut´´ is a kind of taxi. And oh boy! That thing was fast. It was hilarious! 🚛 💨 Back at the hotel, I slept on the floor because I became very dizzy going up and down the bunk beds.

On Tuesday we were supposed to go on a street art tour 🎨 🖌️, but we had talked past the tour guide, so we rescheduled to Wednesday. Instead we got the day off and I went back to the hotel to take a nap. 😴 Later that evening we meet at the hotel to go to a small restaurant where we ate tapas and heard some of the traditional fado music. 🎶 💃 I went straight home to the hotel to sleep some more. 😴<3

Wednesday was our last day in Lisbon before going home. I was still sick and felt very ill, so I decided to stay at the hotel while the others went on the street art tour and tried the tram.

I don´t remember much of the trip home. I slept most of it and just couldn´t wait to get home. So, when we were told that the French workers were on a strike and we might have to wait before we could get home. I felt very nervous. Fortunately, we made it after a quick run through the airport in Paris. 🇫🇷 💨 We arrived at Paderup the night between Thursday and Friday.