We slept in a bit as the breakfast hours at our hotel were rather broad. We’re staying at the 1908 Lisboa Hotel, a hipster kind of place in the gentrifying neighbourhood of Intendente.
We didn’t have any sightseeing planned here, as we’ve been through Lisbon a couple times before, in 2010 and 2019. The only plans we had were to find a self-serve laundromat, and eat yummy food.
We took our laundry to Laundry Self Service Ideal. The lady there was super helpful, and an hour later we had a bag full of clean clothes. The spin got them pretty dry too, they would finish hang drying before we packed up for the Azores.
We had a bit of a shock at the changes in Lisbon and how tourism-focused it’s now become. There were six-seater tuktuks everywhere, carting around their cruise ship passengers like sedentary folks out of WALL-E. Lisbon still maintains its charm, but it was disillusioning to us. We had bifanas for lunch at a random little place that were excellent. We didn’t want a big lunch cause we had planned a big dinner, and the bifanas hit the spot.
Later we had dinner at Sacco, a little restaurant about five minutes from the hotel. It was really good. We chatted with the owners who also commented on the exponential growth of tuktuks in Lisbon.
We finished the night in our hotel bar, having a beer and non-alcoholic cocktail with our welcome-drink tickets.
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