Edit - Photos Up.
We started the day by visiting a quarter of Lisbon called Belem. It's a portside kind of area and is where the original explorers of the world would come and go after their voyages. There's a big memorial for De Gama and the like. As well as a huge monistary, war memorial and a few other bits and bobs. There were also some interesting warning signs on the paths... You have to see the pictures.
Bernard and I went wondering up the backstreets and stopped into this awesome little cafe for lunch. We had a traditional Portuguese feed for about 10 bucks. Both me and Bernard couldn't finish the meals. The love big servings in Portugal.
We then kept wandering around up the hills etc until we stumbled across the home stadium of Second Liga side Belenese - they only got relegated this year. Anyhow, we just wandered right inside and had a look at the stadium. It was excellent. They cram 30,000 people into a stand that covers 3/4 of the pitch and leave the rest of the area open to preserve the view of the port and belem... Magic.
We then started exploring the other side of town, it's very hilly and has a couple of Castles and churches we couldn't find the day before because it was starting to get dark. We found the castle which was about 8 euros to get into, so we politely declined and set off walking. We ended up finding a cafe with a veiw over the city, including the castle. It was magic. We decided to spend the money we saved on beers at this cafe. We sat there for a bit more than an hour just taking in the view... and some of the interesting characters. One bloke got there and had a video camera, so what did he do? He filmed himself drinking a beer at this cafe with a great view. We may have photo bombed his vision.
We then went back to the Hostel for some traditional Piri Piri Chicken. It was amazing and we got a talking to a heap of people from the hostel.
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