Lisbon Day 2! BYU students talked as they walked and walked and walked and walked
Hopefully you all sang the title of this post to the tune of Pioneer Children. If not, go back and do that.
Ok now that it's stuck in your head like it was mine, we can start. Big plans for yet another walking tour today! We headed out to ride the famous yellow cable car that takes you up the many hills and curves of Lisbon's streets. Unfortunately I didn't even get a picture of the tram itself because I was in it, but it was fun! We saw some pretty views on our way.
Our first stop of today was Amalia Rodrigues' house. If you don't know who that is, go read my blog post! Basically she is the most famous fado singer in Portugal, and she popularized fado music around the world. It was really cool to be able to see her house and where she lived. She even recorded songs in her living room! There was a little cafe attached and they had cookies for 50 cents but only took cash, which I don't have, so I left without a cookie but then Grace came out and she had bought a cookie for me!! Literally the nicest thing ever and it was a delicious lemon shortbread type cookie.
This is where the walking and walking and walking part comes in. We walked past a bunch of monuments and streets and cafes and churches so here are a couple pictures from that! We also stopped in at the church where Saint Anthony was born. Saint Anthony is a guy who was trying to preach to the people of Lisbon, but they wouldn't listen to him, so he was like well I guess I'll just preach to the fish. So he started preaching to the fish and the fish listened! Pretty funny. Oh and we also stopped in the Lisbon cathedral which had some pretty stain glass windows. I don't actually have very many pictures from this day at all... oops. I think that I was exhausted.
After probably an hour and a half of walking/church touring, we finally reached the end which was a little farmer's market type deal in the city plaza. They set us free to find some lunch, and I got some empanada type things and of course a pasteis. The empanadas were ok, very dry, but the pasteis was sooo good. Warm and flaky and yum! We also went to a grocery store and I got this very strange pack of gummies that were not good at all. Shapes included fingers, feet, bones, coke bottles, and strawberries! Duh that's an obvious combo.
Our plans for tonight were to meet up with the BYU Portugal study abroad group for a private museum tour and harpsichord concert! Again, not many pictures, but it was super cool and the other BYU people were super nice. Their group is a lot smaller than ours, only 13 people! The museum was a rich guy's house that he wanted converted into a museum, so everything is all from his private collection which was kind of crazy. The harpsichord concert was also really really cool! The harpsichordist (?) was super nice and really funny. He answered all of our questions and taught us a lot about the history of the harpsichord. He even let those who wanted to play a few keys after the performance. The feel of the keys was a lot different compared to a piano which was really interesting, I don't know how to describe it. He also made the sweetest instagram post about all of us: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7SLTp7AnG3/?hl=pt&img_index=1
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