Trip - Day Three - Lisbon - Belem,

12/31/09
We rode the tram out to Belem, 6km from Lisbon city centre. We ate incredibly tasty Pastel de Belem. Custard with a flaky crust. They are one of the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten. I ate a million and 7 of them. And I drank a café con leche and a bica (espresso). It was a bit rainy. We looked around the contemporary art museum. They had a Cessna with the bottom painted like the sky and the top like city streets. It was called google plane. I also like a music video they had there for larytta by souvenir de chine, directed by körner union. It had ducks and mice.



We looked at this old tower and monument and it rained and we rode the tram back and moved on over to Lisbon Story Guesthouse since Poets was booked for New Years Eve. Story was nice. We had a room with a great view of the plaza. We took rickety yellow tram 28 to the Alfama neighborhood and ate sandwiches and café pois and read magazines. Then were rode the tram again and walked around. We dropped into Pavilhao Chines and had a drink. It was a crazy museum-like bar which all kinds of stuff hanging all over the place. We met a guy named Bo from San Diego at the guesthouse and he cruised with us back out to Belem for New Years festivities. We drank much Superbock (local brew) and listened to a Portuguese Beatles cover band. Then there were fireworks. Then Becca had to go to the bathroom real bad, but there was a long line. Bo tried bribing a security guard to get her to the front to no avail. She survived. I just peed on a fence. All the buses and taxis were full so we began to walk the 6km back to the city center, but then we finally caught a taxi. Bo told the guy to take us somewhere that had food. The driver dropped us off in front of this shady non-script building. He told us to go in the door. We wandered down a dark hallway. We stood in a room. Some guy came out and gave us cheesy bread rolls. We went home and sat on the floor in the room at Lisbon Story Guesthouse that is completely covered with cushions and ate.