Lisbon to Porto March 13

Lisbon to  Porto 

Lisbon 

March 13, 2026

Today was the last day in our Airbnb and the day which Judy headed home.  Judy was off to catch her plane quite early and everyone was up early to see her off.  We lounged around and cleaned up the Airbnb and headed off.  Karen and Judy took a Uber over to the hotel with all of the luggage and Ken and I walked over.  It was only about 2 kms so it wasn't far however you cannot go any where in Lisbon with out climbing a hill and we had more than one on the way to the hotel.  

We are staying at the Fenicius Charme hotel which is quite a nice little hotel just a couple of kilometers north of the Lisbon Cathedral.  At the hotel we collected our Camino passports and luggage tags and headed down to the Lisbon Cathedral to get our passports stamped.  While we are not going to get all the way to Santiago it is still fun to collect the stamps along the way.  After our tour of the cathedral Karen and Barb headed off shopping and Ken and I headed off down some back allies looking for a place to have lunch.  

Our first stop was a brew pub which offered 12 different beers.  The sign was cool but the beer wasn't up to snuff.  As we wandered the streets on the way back to the hotel we encountered a lot of stairs and a lot of very interesting little neighborhoods.  Some had some great wall art painted on the sides of buildings, along with a lot of very interesting peoples.  Take the picture of the dancing raven for example and in the lower right corner there is a workman sleeping in his wheelbarrow.  We stopped and had a cherry liquor in a chocolate cup from a street vendor.  We had lunch in a small café where I had the chicken couscous. It was great.  

Tomorrow morning we are off on the first day of our trek.  Our time in Lisbon has been a lot of fun but I am really excited to get going.   

Terry