Lisbon - October 10 & 11

On Monday October 10 we had a great breakfast and packed ourselves up and walked to the Canadian Embassy, arriving just before 9am.  Australia, Ireland and a few other countries share the same building.  Sadly...for us, the Canadian embassy was closed for Canadian thanksgiving.  We thought that may be a possibility, but the website we were using for reference indicated the embassy would be open.  Well it wasn't

So we walked back to the guest house and made arrangements for another night.  We mostly acted like tourists for the day.  We boarded Tram 28

And had a tram tour of old Lisbon...the tram was very full...folks waiting to get on

Vista

And a view as we walked back to the guest house

We had a nice visit with a couple from Vancouver, also staying at the guest house, that had spent 3 weeks touring Portugal using public transport.  They loved their trip

In the evening we walked up the street to a restaurant that the girl at the front desk recommended.  We had fish ....so good!

Monday morning, October 11, we again had breakfast and made our way to the Canadian embassy hoping to sort out the passport issue.  They were very helpful....not a process I would recommend to anyone...after 2 hours we paid a big fee and left with the promise of a new passport to be shipped to a contact point in Santiago .  While there we met a couple, from Edmonton, he had his passport pick pocketed on the exact same tram we were on the day before.  Unfortunately they had to rebook all of their flights as they were hoping to leave tomorrow .  Mr Edmonton has a brother in Lacombe....such a small world...still. 

We hopped on a train to Porto, as we have lost quite a few days and glided at a smooth 222kph!  We arrived in Porto and it began to pour rain....of all things.   We grabbed a taxi that delivered us to our B &B....the owner guy greeted us with a flask of home made port and cookies!  So nice.

Today is also our young sons birthday , hugs to him!

We will see what tomorrow brings!