Whew! After ensuring the castle and keep were cared for, we toured our other property, Monseratte in SIntra, en route to Lisbon. (Lisboa) This beautiful estate has an UNESCO classification, modeled after “the” Monserrat near Barcelona, and we found it quite unintentionally. It was obviously worth the change in plans, as you may concur.
Slightly exhausted, we were driving the way we do. Husband at the wheel, me with the gps but actually looking at the landscape. That’s when I saw it and we drove there, correcting our misguided attempts to see another Palace. Twists and turns galore.
“Winding our way” became the rest of the journey. Lisbon is a mess of one-way cobblestoned streets, shared with trolley cars and pedestrians. You miss a turn – you spend twenty minutes winding around to return to the correct turn. “To everything, turn, turn, turn….” The Birds must have spent some time here.
We’re hanging at a very sweet apartment, just lovely, with a “charming” squeak in front of the IKEA kitchen sink. It sounds like the chains of an old swing rubbing against the hooks in the wind whenever you step on the wood planks. Charm in a foreign country is different, isn’t it? These planks would have been ripped up and replaced at home, pronto!
As we await the dinner time, we are so fortunate to have American television with “Naked and Afraid” as a choice. Hopefully we’ll have another “Rambo” movie after dining. We’ve seen two already. Pretty good for someone who never saw a single one before this trip!
Beautiful 🤩