Morning, Lisbon city tour. Tour guide maria in her 60's did a good job in explaining the facts and histories of the places visited, there's always a rush for the group to finish the scheduled spots on time to allow any extra time for him to take a few more pictures, so he had to do his bit to forgo her narrations and focus on taking pictures. So he could hardly remember what places they visited that day. Only the Jerominus church n nearby places, the tower, the century place, the Tugus riverside. Had the oldest Portuguese tart, very good. Had Chinese beef, towgay and fried rice for lunch, very good, also
and yes, one thing made a deep impression on him, Lisbon city center was like San Francisco, the steep terrain and its buildings, hit him hard that he was in San Fran... later he found out that the similarities were beyond coincidence, though San Fran has a strong historical tie with Spain, and nothing much with Lisbon or Portugal.
he fell in love with San Fran, the ice cream, the crabs, fisherman's wharf, china town, union square.... the full moon over golden gate.... Auckland bridge, the trolleys rides, the bus rides, the windiest Lombard street... sadly, two short days in Lisbon did not leave him much impression on its food, places, and experiences to fall in love with, except the tart from the oldest tart shop in the world.
- talking about tarts, Hongkong and Macao's Portuguese tarts are famous.... incidentally, the tart in Bangkok are also very famous for a totally different reason.
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