Hola! you guessed it! We’ve recently returned from another wonderful trip! A lot of people ask us how we’ve managed to travel so much this year (I know it seems like we don’t work, but i can assure you that is not the case. -we’re just really good at pretending we’re not =)) and i wish there was some magical secret to it, but the honest truth is that we have been dreaming about traveling for the last 4 years and when the opportunity showed itself, we took it by the horn and have been on this amazing world wind of a year. We’ve been so so fortunate and blessed with the way things have turned out for us and are truly, truthfully, the truth’s truth, grateful.
Both places had such great things to offer, but for us, things started off a bit on a sour note during our first night in Lisbon when Bern got food poisoning from a cheese he had eaten at one of the local restaurants (he’s the only one who had it, so my advice to you all is Stay away from the cheese, which isn’t free by the way, even though they put it on the table and make it look like it’s complimentary. And don’t be fooled by the bread and butter either, cause they charge you for that too if you so much as touch it.). And even though he put on a brave face and didn’t miss out on any outings, seeing him sick made it really hard for me to enjoy the trip and really put things in perspective. I know that’s the last thing he wants for me, but there is just no way you can enjoy anything when your loved one is in bed with fever. Alright! now that that’s been said, onto the positive recap!
The fun thing about Madrid is that it reminded us quite a bit of Paris. People were just so laid back, the shopping was great and the food was just as delightful as the city itself. While this was our least productive trip: woke up at noon (one time we woke up at 3pm), didn’t visit a single castle, museum, or historical monument (well a few, but most were purely accidental), it was one of our funnest one yet! now looking back, it’s funny to think of us as locals, but that’s exactly what it looked like! We didn’t do it on purpose, but somehow we ended up doing as the locals did, which was eat, drink, soak up the sun, and did some good ‘ol chillin’. We did plan to visit the famous San Miguel Market, however we didn’t plan on going there 3 days in a row! Other things we did intend on hitting up was the oldest running restaurant in the whole world, since 1725! (delicious), watch a bull fight (bern enjoyed it, i still can’t believe i sat through the whole thing), and experience the european club life! did you know clubbing at 230am is considered early? and the clubs close at 6am? 6am! the metro system is up and running by the time you leave the club! In overall, Madrid was great, and we definitely plan on going back some day (i hope).
While Lisbon was a bit of a worry for us, mainly because we didn’t know the language, and the portuguese they teach you on the iPhone apps is brazilian, which is completely different from european portuguese! Much to our surprise, a pleasant one, the people of Portugal knew english very well! They were (we felt) more prepared for tourism than Madrid, even in a small city like Lisbon. We rented an apartment with literally the best view, ate the best gelato we’ve ever had (i’m very serious. i even have my serious face on as i write this), toured some pretty awesome castles, saw the longest bridge in europe, as well as the Golden Gate bridge’s sister (in photo), and visited vasco de gamma! We were right back to being our up and running tourist selves! My god, i can’t believe i rambled so much! double you t f ! someone shut this girl up already! Taken with our Fujifilm X100, HERE. ARE. PHOTOS:
Photo taken by Brandon Wong
by Molina
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