Thursday, August 9, 2007

2007 - Post-Graduation Mediterranean - Day 67

Day 67:

- Take metro and train to Sintra. Love the metro. Nice bell sound, looks modern.
- Good train system.
- From train looks like suburbs, was dissappointing.
- Tourist info full. Follow sign to Palace. Nice art, see the Sintra palace.
- See Moorish castle.
- Long hike to Sintra.
- Ice cream "mini milk" remind me Chinese.
- Very cool palace. Many nooks and crannies. Exposed eroded rocks.
- Every piece of decoration worth viewing. Too much.
- Turkish holding lamps, Glass tree chandelier, other pieces.
- Courtyard (cloister) single fern tree nice.
- Strict on photos. Radioed ahead about me?
- Coral themed port.
- Gardens "like Secret Garden"
- Fern valley, fountains, streams, large trees, ivy covered paths.
- Eroded stones and wells and statues.
- Queen's throne. Reclining carved stone bench. Great view of palace.
- Moorish castle has towers in the forest. Hike to it.
- Remind me Great Wall.
- Fun towers to climb up. No railings.
- Cistern.
- See bridge in Lisboa, the pinching peninsula and ocean.
- Think about viewing invading navy/army. Flight over Atlantic.
- Hike alone in dense forest. Some, but few, people.
- Walk by very full pastry shop.
- Ask: one not know, one no English, one French lady told me (part in French).
- Had travesseiro, queijada and a fofo.
- Good fofo tasted like crap afte rthe other delicious ones.
- Had to wait for travesseiro, hot, burned my tongue.
- Met from San Jose. First time backpack after study in England.
- First stop for him, happy to meet someone doing a trip "more hardcore than him as he was worried about his 6 wk trip.
- Grilled sardines. Delicious potatoes.
- Not sure what to do with bones.
- Delicious flavour of sardines. Grilled with scales, just dark crisp skin.
- Shower, Serbian coins. Sleep early after check flight.

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