We don’t talk about Lisbon, no, no, no…..

If you read the post on Cadiz, you can likely extrapolate WHY.

We spent a really long time lugging A LOT of weight in the rain to send things home.

Then the actual shipping cost us a fortune.

Note to self for next time- DO NOT let the youngest bring his entire set of D & D books on the off chance that he’ll find someone on the cruise willing to play with him!

After the frustration, we ended up deciding to just forgo trying to see Lisbon, as even a quick Hop-on Hop-off Tour would’ve been pretty miserable with baggage and wet clothes.  So we just hailed a taxi to the airport early. It was the cheapest and best taxi we have had on the trip and Eli decided that Portugal has the best operated TSA system. Truly, Lisbon is probably a lovely city and hopefully, we’ll find out someday. But this was not the day. It will, however, be a memory, as we spent part of the afternoon discussing. Many of our most vivid travel memories stem from mistakes or problems:

• Locking the keys in the car in Cambridge
• Dead car battery in Peterborough
• Walking ALL THE WAY across Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park because we wanted to save money- and thought it really wasn’t THAT big, right?- the very first time we went to London
• Being stranded in the Ottawa airport with no available hotel rooms and sleeping on a bench at 26 weeks pregnant
• Having to cross NYC because we couldn’t fly via TAP from EWR and instead had to go, really fast to JFK to catch a British Air flight, at the height of COVID
• Being grounded for days due to storms- more than once
• Not realizing that there would be no open restaurants mid-afternoon in small towns in Ireland and having the worst HANGER-fueled fight ever as a newly engaged couple.
• Me, grabbing a security guard by the neck and threatening him with bodily harm because we had lost a 4 year old Jade at an amusement park and I didn’t think he was taking it seriously enough.

Hey, I didn’t say these were the GOOD memories, but they are VIVID, lol!