I believe it's now thursday and I'm going to sintra!

This catch up of journaling and blogging is seriously intense. Good think this week so far we have done absolutely nothing so i am not really getting further and further behind.

So it's Thursday now and we had mixed feelings about today. The girls that were hung over saw the sun when they woke up and decided they wanted to go to the beach. Lakshmi Brooke ally and I however werent so bad and we had heard sintra is a must see. Im so happy we went there is was awesome!!! When Luis told us to go there he said it was a fairytale. He wasn't lying!

So basically you have a 40 min train ride from lisboa to sintra for 4 bucks round trip. Everything is cheap it's awesome. Any who we are at the train station (there was a star bucks it was amazing) any who the people behind us realized we were American. So we talked to them for awhile. They were a family with a guy and girl in college. From San diego, they owned a shampoo company. The dad was super friendly haha I feel like he was more interested in talking to us than his kids. He even sat by us on the bus while his family sat somewhere else. Haha who knows.

So any who we get to sintra and we are starving. We ate at the cutest little cafe. I seriously can't even describe what this to town looks like. First of all it's coastal. It's on the side of Lisbon that is closer to the Atlantic, so amongst the mountains you can see the ocean. It's gorgeous with green plants and gardens everywhere. The city is very old and mainly just for tourists now. It's got like 5 palaces and 3 castles. We decided just to go inside one castle and we would walk by the others. Th castle we went into was a huge moorish castle at the top of this mountain, overlooking the entire town. We had to take a bus up, um it was terrifying. But well worth it. At one point we had to make a ten pt turn. The bus driver got up and asked some men to get out and help him, all in a days work apparently.

The actual castle itself was like a playground. You will just have to see pictures when I get them up. So after that, we decided to get some supper. We found a cute place outside that had something vegan and a hamburger for brooke haha. The guy that owned the place came up to us in the middle of our meal and took a picture of us and asked us where we were from cause apparently they have a facebook page for their restaurant. I'm famous!

Anyway, after a long day we got on the train and came back to Lisbon. We decided earlier as a group to see what barrio alto was all about at night. So after napping and stuff, we hopped on trains at 12 to go out there. Holy house party in the streets. It's a place with solid bars and the catch is people don't stay in them. You get a drink in a plastic cup then stand outside the bar/in the streets and drink it. It was a great place tho because it was a tourist attraction, but for young people. We met people from all over, London, Switzerland (haha my personal favorite because they thought for sure I was Swedish), brazil, and the US.

All in all we had a good time in Lisbon!