Day 18: Lisbon to Lagos!

Word of wisdom: DON'T go on a pub crawl in Lisbon the night before you have to catch a train to Lagos in the morning. You may think that 10:20am isn't that early, but when you get home at 5:30am...well, let's just say that getting to the train station was a bit of a challenge. To make it even more difficult? My alarm didn't go off! Either I slept through it or I didn't set it properly (both could be likely considering what I had to drink last night!) But whatever the reason was, I woke up with 40 minutes to spare before my train left. That meant no shower, no eggs and toast for breakfast, and an 8€ cab ride to get to the train station across town. Oh well, how many times do I get to party in Lisbon?! And it was totally worth it- the pub crawl was tons of fun! We went to 3 different places, all which were about the size of a shoebox! They would be the COAT CHECK room in a bar in Toronto! haha But it definitely added to the atmosphere!

So as you can imagine I wasn't feling so hot today. Two bumpy train rides later I made it to Lagos - but finding my hostel was a different story. When you only have directions that say "you'll pass a fish market, taxi stand and post officce, then you'll see a small square with a funny statue in it, but don't go too far because then you'll get to a big square with another statue..." it is understandable that I got a little lost! (By the way, I never even saw the fish market, taxi stand OR post office, and the funny statue was WAY on the other side of the square so I couldn't even see it from the street!) Now combine that with the fact that I still wasn't feeling so hot after last night's festivities and you will see why I was a not-so-happy camper when I finally made it to my hostel.

Usually I would head out right away and check out the city but I was exhausted. So I took a nap for a few hours, then got cleaned up and went out for dinner. I went to a traditional Portuguese restaurant and had a delicious meal - bread, salad, piri-piri chicken and dessert for only 12€! Definitely early to bed tonight- beach time tomorrow! Woo hoo!!!

Love, Dianna