Here are tips on what to do during 3 days in Lisbon (more details below)

• Visit the oldest bookstore in the world, Livraria Bertand, buy a book, and get a unique stamp
• Drink a cup of coffee in one of the oldest coffee places in Portugal
• Climb on top of the Castelo de Sao Jorge
• Listen to a fado performance (almost everywhere, we listened here)
• For insta girlies: Take a picture not only on the pink street, but also on the green street
• go to Belem to see grave of Vasco de Gama at Jeronimos Monastery (for free)
• when in Belem, try original pastel de Belem in the Pastéis de Belém place
• swim in the ocean at the beach near Belem
• chill in the botanical garden under the trees from Latin America
• or chill in another nearby park for free, close to the beautiful cathedral built per request of the first queen Mary

want more? Listen to our small podcast recap here:

In this podcast episode we dive into what we liked and did not like about our trip to Lisbon, and why we feel like we are enjoying Porto more 😄next up – review of porto!

Here how the book stamp looks like 😍

To go to Belem, we recommend using a bus. Tram 15 seemed like a fun ride, but the line was horrible.

The fair was around 2 euro , and we got cards for public transport in advance from the metro station. you can put some money on the card and use those cards for all the types of transport ! Tram fair, if buying from the conductor is 3 euro, but only 1.5 euro with your preloaded card – life saver!

as to going to the castle of Sao Jorge, we went by foot, we initially wanted to get to this sandwich place (Bifanas do Afonso , to try “bifana” , a typical pork sandwich), but we found an elevator that led us to hallway to the castle, and we just went from there 😁

green street: