{"id":5511,"date":"2013-02-28T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiller.at\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2013-02-28T01:15:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T00:15:13","slug":"2012-11-lissabon-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chiller.at\/?p=5511","title":{"rendered":"2012 11 \u2013 Lissabon – Thanks!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dieses Mal, aus Dankbarkeit, f\u00fcr meinen Gastgeber alles auf Englisch, damit er auch endlich mal was von meinen Eintr\u00e4gen lesen kann…<\/p>\n

Snowy Vienna in October? Sudden coldness? Time to leave! My studies went to an end and since I’ve just had to wait for my final exam I booked a trip to finally visit my dear friend Carlos in Lisbon. (He already invites me since my first time in Odessa<\/a>!)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unusually as the whole post I like to start with my r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and a big, great THANK YOU! I had a great time spending ten-day in Lisbon, sometimes exploring alone, sometimes together with my friend. All the trips to Odessa<\/a> or Sankt Petersburg<\/a> were somehow similar but this time I met a whole new culture, realized that I’ve never even heard Portuguese before and would describe it as mix of Spanish words pronounced in a sometimes French or slawic way (mainly Polish). I not only once had the feeling of understanding something in Russian, only to realize soon afterwards it was Portuguese and nothing I could know. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Since my host is a big fan of films, we watched a movie nearly every evening. Sometimes something a little bit odd (like the Chinese film Detective Dee), sometimes a great Anime from Hayao Miyazaki<\/a> which I enjoyed watching, by borrowing (for any not-Austrians: lending) some DVDs from a friend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Great Food<\/strong><\/p>\n

On weekends Carlos showed me many things (going by car) and interesting places and in the evenings we had either very good Portuguese food (from something like a cantina) or we were eating in a restaurant. I never thought that fish could be cooked in such delicious ways, but the codfish tasted very good in nearly every variant. I would say that the Portuguese kitchen is great (a little bit fatty but great) and I’ll try to find a restaurant in Vienna! We also managed to eat at some Indian restaurants, which were good, but not\u00a0able to hold a candle to my beloved Viennese Samrat<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Great Views<\/strong><\/p>\n

I enjoyed my walks (and also two runs along the river) in different districts of the city, even though my feet were a little bit annoyed – of the many slopes – in the evenings. As usual I preferred walking, to get a feeling of the city, but as soon as I used the metro for the first time I was excited about it. It\u2019s like in Vienna, the veins of the city, and living next to a traffic junction, I had all the freedom of going wherever I want! I also had 3 trips outside of the city but you\u2019ll read about them soon\u2026<\/p>\n

Only a handful of sunshine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately the sun just visited once in a while and I had some days, colder than in Vienna. This was a little weird, because I left for warmth and sunshine. Anyways, the fog opened some nice views and photographical opportunities, so one has to search for luck in every condition \ud83d\ude09 You\u2019ll see\u2026<\/p>\n

One more thing to mention was the nice view in the mornings with my pumpkin-jam bread and fresh orange juice…<\/p>\n