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I do agree with central, flat Baixa too, and I stay at the "Yes" hostel. They give a very warm welcome and have a breakfast included. I also stay at the "Yes" hostel in Porto. The prices are reasonable, it's very clean, have sheets and curtained bunks. Other pilgrims stay there too.I plan to spend 3-4 days in Lisbon before undertaking CdP with my 16 year old son. We plan to visit a number of different attractions (itinerary still being developed) in the city and its surroundings.
For those of you who know Lisbon, what area(s) of the city would you set up a "base camp" (Alfama? Baixa? etc.) and why (proximity to some attraction? food? transportation? culture? view? etc.)?
As a secondary point, if there's a particular lodging there that you highly recommend, please share.
Yes . . . That looks like what I'd call a good start to my "research".
Wow, @jungleboy and @peregrina2000, what comprehensive knowledge! We stayed in the Alfama, but I'd rethink that next time.
@peregrina2000, funny you should mention your walking tour. Yesterday, I browsed all 26 pages of CdP threads for those related to Lisbon. In that, I came across your tour. This morning I traced your entire tour in Google maps and marked everything that I could find (for instance, did you know that Pastelaria Suica is closed permanently?). I'm still adding recommendations from other threads, and then I'll sort through it all to figure out how to stuff the 50 kilos of Lisbon into the 22 litre backpack of four days. Just exploring all the restaurants would take a month and a new, larger set of clothes!
As to the pasteis de nata . . . we've walked together. Do you really think I won't research those to the extreme?!
At first glance, The Museum of the Resistance seems intriguing, although I know nothing of that period of history in Portugal, and I have not yet reached it in Hatton's text. The more I study history, the more I realize that history written in the immediate aftermath of the event struggles most with objectivity because it is unavoidably reactionary. Then there is---possibly, but not guaranteed to be---a time sufficiently distant from the event that the worst of interpreter bias subsides. I'll be curious to see how the museum navigates those waters.
I didn't, but I do now. And, if I read the US customs website correctly, I am able to bring some back to the states.And as a person with an extreme culinary bent, you probably also have Lisbon’s excellent canning industry on your lists. The Conserveira de Lisboa is a family run place more or less between Praça do Comercio and the Cathedral.
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