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Every day is Legs Day if you’re in Lisbon.
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Yet to visit Lisbon but must do one day. Will get training these skinny legs of mine now 😀
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There’s one thing that is pretty much guaranteed over there!
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Ah yes, I remember walking those hills of Lisbon. They’re great for walking off pasteis de belem. 🙂
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Or beer… so they say!
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Gonna be in Lisbon next September. I’ll be sure to bring my legs.
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Do make sure you bring ’em! They’re not big on stairlifts or ramps too… Enjoy Lisbon!
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Uuuu, you’ve been here! No tips required, you did exactly what one should do in Lisbon. One of these days I’ll go around counting tourists and spit out a formula that shows the inverse correlation between the number of steps and the number of tourists.
For your next trip here, consider joining the mad group that every week runs up and down these neighbourhoods, and tops it up with a few extra laps around Monsanto (the large park on the opposite side of town, where straight paths are also hard to find).
– Verne
PS: any panning shots here? For some odd reason, I don’t think I’ve every tried them in Lisbon!
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Hey Verne, I love Lisbon! I’ll try the running thing next time I’m over. No panning shots I’m afraid 😦
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Read the title as “Lego day” for some dumb reason… and thought it would be about your engineering-based nerdiness. (I say that kindly as you have called yourself an aeronautics and other geek at least a couple of times!). But no, just legs, and a topic (endless walking) that I enjoy much more than plastic bricks!
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Ooooh, Lego!!!!
I loved Lego as a kid, though my attempt at building a dog saddle for our Dalmatian were, shall we say, a lot less than successful. Thanks for reading Lexi, considering your mountaing climbing geekiness I’m glad you liked the post.
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Walking upstairs is hard, even for athletes who never skip leg day. It would be interesting to do a study of the cardiovascular fitness of Lisboners vs. flatlanders.
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There were some impressive thighs!
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Certainly looks steep. Like Montmartre everywhere… Hope all is well with you?
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All is good Brian, how about you?
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Apart form dealing with – very – obnoxious neighbours, we’re good, grazie… 🙂
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Oh I feel your pain!
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It is a universal problem isn’t it? 😉
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“pretty much this big.” I don’t know if I’ll be able to see one of those statues now without thinking this…
It’s kind of spooky how much that bridge looks like the Golden Gate. I wonder what sort of legs you’d need to climb the towers?
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Pretty damn good ones methinks. About the statues… the religious brigade will be happy to pelt me with rotten vegetables but if they aren’t about Jesus bragging about the size of the fish he’s caught (and multiplied) I don’t know what else they can represent!
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Like you, I always enjoy traveling to cities that are not flat — not because I love walking up- and downhill a lot, but because of the variety of views the city has to offer. Jakarta is a very flat megalopolis, so places like Istanbul, Hong Kong, and Amman really spoiled me with the dramatic sights of their hills (or from the hills).
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Never knew that Jakarta was so flat! I don’t know why, but in my utter ignorance I thought at Indonesia (mountains, volcanoes) and thought that it’d be at least hilly…
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Once again you have transported me with your vivid words and subtly striking images. I aspire to write as beautifully as you do. Inspirational. Do you publish in magazines? Your stories are that good.
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Hi Lisa, you’re too kind! I only write here I’m afraid. I tried submitting stories to magazines and a book to agents but neither have gone too well. I must be doing something wrong, but at the end of the day that’s OK.
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I am surprised that your pitches haven’t generated interest and suggest you keep on trying. I crave real travel stories and they are getting harder to find as I sift through the multitudes of advertorials on line (e.g. 5 luxury hotels you must visit blah, blah, blah). It has been a real treat to meet up with you here.
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Yeah I must be out of touch with the market!
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Well maybe that is a good thing …because you are creating really interesting work!
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🙂 thanks Lisa! Fabrizio
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My own memories of Lisbon are reignited thanks to your wonderful post about Lisbon. It sounds like you were staying near the Mouraria, perhaps my favourite area of Lisbon. Thank you for this post.
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Yes I wasn’t that far! Thanks LD 🙂
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Wonderful glimpses with a couple of amazing door views, and the absorbing narrative. No Portugal for me yet. Lisbon looks surprisingly like much smaller Piran on the Slovenian coast.
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Yes, it has some familiarity to those small Dalmatian seaside towns… thanks for reading!
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Beautiful post!
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Thanks! 🙂
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