Slept in yet again, wouldn’t you know? But so it goes. We do end up staying up much later than we would at home, so I guess this is to be expected, but I was hoping we might get on a slightly earlier schedule by now.

After our coffee here at the house (first image below is the view from the bedroom window), we headed out (well, eventually!) and went to get breakfast. We decided to check out A Brasileira do Chiado — an historic coffee house where writers used to meet up.

Then we headed down to find the train station so we could head to Belém. Took us a bit of time, but we managed to get things figured out. I really thought I had prepared things more than I had for this trip, but I honestly enjoy winging it a bit, and we do eventually get to our destinations. Well, most of the time! These shots are on our way to the train station and then finally on the train.

We saw a few famous things in Belém, but neglected some other things that Ana had suggested. Our brains just weren’t quite connected I suppose (and it was quite warm).

We had a lighter lunch (still too much!) before heading back to Chiado.

As is typical, we came back to the house to rest up a bit and cool off. But then we did something that caused me to have to brave it: we went to the top of the “Elevator” to see the view. This is an extremely difficult thing for me, and I continue to experience pain when I go for it, but hey, I did it and I only whimpered a wee bit!

Our dinner was at a place that had been recommended as a spot locals go to. The food was nothing fancy and I suspect it was more like a normal Portuguese dinner. The guys working there (it was a rather small place) were great fun and there was lots of joking and laughter. We managed to eat a bit less for dinner, but … well … then there was dessert! Oops!

From there we headed to get a small glass of Ginjinha at what I believe was the original place. It’s medicinal, after all! (Hah!)

As we walked back we saw both yesterday’s restaurant and today’s, so I snapped photos of both.

And THEN … well … back we went to the top of the elevator. Below there was a movie being shown (no clue what it was which is no surprise since we never go to see movies), and I again whimpered a bit but survived the height. For a short time.

We had thought we’d go to Sintra tomorrow, but it turns out we didn’t get tickets to the Pena Palace in time and nothing is available, so we will do more here in Lisbon. Fine by me. I just love the random walks we can take and I’ll survive missing Sintra … for now. Maybe we’ll have to return!