{"id":3716,"date":"2009-05-03T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2020-10-13T12:11:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T12:11:57","slug":"welcome-to-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/2009\/05\/03\/welcome-to-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Portugal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Portugal for three weeks in May 09. Our hols kicked off in Lisbon where we stayed with our friends Jo and Nigel. We enjoyed several days of warm spring sunshine and the highlights included a day at the beach and some tram rides up and down Lisbon&#8217;s famous hills.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the view from the plane flying over the river Tajo (Tagus) and coming in to land.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/landing.jpg\" alt=\"landing in Lisbon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As well as the distinctive yellow trams, this is a funicular tram coming up one of the steep hills<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/hilltram.jpg\" alt=\"Lisbon tram\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/houses.jpg\" alt=\"landing in Lisbon\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/j.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/jandj.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie and Jo\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/r.jpg\" alt=\"Richard among the Jacarandas\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a view over Lisbon from St. George&#8217;s Castle<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/rooves.jpg\" alt=\"Baixo\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/tram1.jpg\" alt=\"Lisbon tram\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/tram2.jpg\" alt=\"Lisbon tram\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/tram3.jpg\" alt=\"Lisbon tram\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vasco da Gama monument overlooking the river<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/vasco1.jpg\" alt=\"Vasco da Gama monument Lisbon\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/vasco.jpg\" alt=\"Vasco da Gama monument Lisbon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dinner with Jo and Nigel<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/dinner.jpg\" alt=\"dinner\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cascais is a charming town on the coast but only 30mins from downtown Lisbon. Popular with Lisbonites and tourists.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/cafecais.jpg\" alt=\"cascais\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/cascais.jpg\" alt=\"cascais\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/beach1.jpg\" alt=\"Lisbon beach\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/countries\/portugal\/lisbon\/papers.jpg\" alt=\"sunday mornign papers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More photos <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/9LW8XixmdETtwmgu9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Portugal for three weeks in May 09. Our hols kicked off in Lisbon where we stayed with our friends Jo and Nigel. We enjoyed several days of warm spring sunshine and the highlights included a day at the beach and some tram rides up and down Lisbon&#8217;s famous hills. Here&#8217;s the view from the plane flying over the river Tajo (Tagus) and coming in to land. As well as the distinctive yellow trams, this is a funicular&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/2009\/05\/03\/welcome-to-portugal\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/beach1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}