The Europenguin: 2009

Monday, December 14, 2009

Thursday, November 26, 2009

For 6 Euros ($9 or £5.40), this was our dinner one night. It included a salad, rice, black beans, french fries, a piece of fresh cooked steak, chicken, sausage, pork rib, a fried banana, and a drink. We learned that Portuguese love Brazilian food (the food we had) which means you get tons and tons of food for almost nothing.

(the salad was on the other side of that mound of meat)

A pretty fountain in Lisbon

Amazing Lights

Portugal wins for light displays throughout their cities. From Porto to Faro, it was astonishing how each street or plaza had a different light display. These pictures are just from Lisbon, but Porto and Faro had just as good ones. Faro even had ones that were 3-D and blinked.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Gondola Ride

Along the coast, you can take a gondola ride. The perfect tourist trap, and of course, we rode it twice. Unfortunately, the weather was horrible. They neglected to tell us that on these type of days the gondola does not only sway side to side sometimes but also up and down quite violently. For the entire ride back, I was sure they we were going to be on the 6 o'clock news (or whatever the time the news is in Portugal) as two tragic deaths. It will be a long while till I step onto a gondola again.

the start

really rainy

views

Oceanarium

If you thought an aquarium was boring, you need to come to the Oceanarium in Lisbon. This aquarium is out of this world crazy with a super large center tank surrounding by two floors of different parts of the ocean/sea in different climates. I did get to see my penguins but there was also otters, sailfish, sharks, manta rays, and so much more.

the building that houses awesomeness