I’m not going to make excuses this time, I just haven’t gotten around to writing up a post in a while. Sorry about that.
As I write this I am on the train to my next destination. Here’s some of what I got up to during my last couple of days in Lisbon:
There are only so many 500 year old churches one can visit before they all start to look the same, so I decided to visit something a little more modern – the zoo! I’ve \nbeen to zoos before, but never in another country, and I was kind of curious what the differences would be.
As it turns out, over here they consider animals like Bears and Turkeys to be zoo-worthy!
I wandered around aimlessly for a while until I came across the ruins of an old cathedral. This piqued my interest because all the old buildings I had seen before were in perfect condition. Why was this building in ruins?
Going inside, I found out that it was actually an archeological museum, with a bunch of really old artifacts. And when I say a bunch, I mean literal thousands of them! Here are a few pictures, though I must say that they don’t capture the full scale of how much stuff was there.
And best of all, the resident museum cat:
Fun fact: the Portugese have Scientology too!
Apparently, Lisbon has one of the best aquariums in the world. After visiting it, I have to agree!
That’s it for Lisbon. I’ll post another update shortly about the train travel experience.