Pretty unexpectedly we managed to see the bigger part of city centre yesterday, so we decided to get out of town and visit Sintra today. We again took the taxi and drove all the way up to the colorful castle. Despite having sun blazing below in Lisbon, the weather up the hill was cloudy and slightly rainy. Even if we would have wanted to pay 20 something euros for the entrance, it didn’t seem reasonable in this weather, so we started our way down to enjoy the views on the way. The views were amazing. Especially the ones, where, standing in the rain yourself, you could admire the sunny Lisbon below. We reached the village and chose a restaurant, which had gazpacho on the menu. Turned out that we had managed to choose the finest dining place of the settlement with white table cloths and suited waiters.
We both opted for the soup, but despite the fact that gazpacho was even written on the white paper of specials, they are not offering it in November anymore. Not the season. Oh, well. Since we had already sat down and assumed that the possibility to have coffee is not depending of the season, we just asked for cappuccinos. Yeah, well - they are running a restaurant there and they absolutely expect their customers to have a meal there, not just sip on a cup of coffee. So we went to a little cafe just around the corner, where we spent a nice hour with coffee and some cakes.
We walked up to the Quita de Regaleira, which is a palace with huge garden and spent at least an hour there. After that it definitely was time for late lunch and we returned to the village. At 3pm on a Sunday afternoon all that Sintra had to offer were pastries, cakes and roasted chestnuts. Because all the restaurants had finished serving lunch and closed their kitchens until dinnertime.
We took taxi back to Lisbon, did some slippershopping, got some coffee in Starbucks and returned to the apartment. Since the Portuguese cuisine was less than impressive, Bolt delivered us some poke bowls.
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