Re: Bob's Bits.
Thanks for all your replies....will talk more when I return home....
The Cruise – Day Four – Sunday
I could only manage four kilometres on the running machine this morning in the ships Gym, far too hot to run indoors. I returned to the cabin dissolving as I walked. It was a fast turnaround, so there was no time to spare. It seems that 8am is the optimum time to find a table for breakfast, so I was still sweating as we made the long walk from the very front of the ship [our cabin] to the very back [the cafeteria].
Did I mention that the food is outstanding, but despite that, I settled on beans on toast this morning, to give my system a rest, there is a limit to the number of fried breakfasts you can eat. The ship docked in the port of Lisbon while I struggled on the treadmill [the gym is at the very front of the ship, only the captain on the bridge has a better view] so after breakfast we disembarked and took the shuttle bus into the city centre.
As we alighted the bus, I noticed a castle on a hill, I suggested that we should climb the hill and explore the castle, but the wife suffering with a bad back from carrying my luggage, and the other two members not feeling up to it decided to ‘do the shops’ instead, so I went solo. There were plenty of steps as I made my way through the cobbled streets and took any route that went up, even had they been up to it, I don’t think that they would have enjoyed the climb.
I arrived at the gate to the castle and it was crowded with tourists, I discovered from a Geordie bloke that it would cost 5 euros to enter and it was just for the view. He declined, but I reached into my back pocket for my wallet….It wasn’t there, and I realised I had left it back on the ship in the safety deposit. I turned and started the descent, disappointed. As I wound my way through the narrow back streets of Lisbon I gave way to old woman coming in the opposite direction with a shopping basket, she smiled and thanked me in Portugese and then gestured to an opening in the wall, she lifted her arms to imitate taking a picture, I passed through and what a surprise……I took these shots…
With no money, and no phone, I returned to the ship on foot and wrote this blog.