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My First Birthday in Lisbon
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Menu do Dia @ Irmãs Cadima
Since our dinner time is too early to dine out, we try to enjoy lunch at a restaurant every other day or so.
We have a favorite restaurant one minute away from home, but today he picked a new one in the neighborhood.
Now I have a strategy. When I don’t know what to order, I would go with one on the top, usually one the restaurant is most confident of. They said it was pork cheek and it sounded good to me.
Grocery shopping on the way home.
Two more stops to buy some vegetables and pastries. Then I had to stop another to pick up alho (garlic).
Walking on Avenida de Liberdade
I remember that it was 5am when I checked the clock. When I checked the clock again to get up, it was somehow 7am already. Yes, I slept twice!
I took a bus to Marquês de Pombal and walked down the Avenida de Liberdade (Avenue of Freedom) to Praça da Figueira to pick up some pastries at Confeitaria Nacional while he was studying Portuguese at home.
I climbed the steep hills as always from Metro station and got home around 4:40pm.
Chicken Risotto, Kebab Sandwich & Bacon Peperoncino
Sunday Lunch @ Calçada 28
This restaurant quickly became one of our favorites.
Skipped dinner for a big lunch. He had a bowl of chicken soup.
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Feira da Ladra @ Campo de Santa Clara
We went to Campo de Santa Clara for one of biggest flea markets in Lisbon, Feira de Ladra. It was about 25 minute walk downhill.
Here are sceneries on the way there.
There were so many venders along the streets and in the venue and so many things were appealing to me. I tried not to buy anything since we gotta move to a new place soon, but I purchased a wallet which was so cute.
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Woke up around 6am. He did around 3am as always.
Pastries & Kebab Sandwich
I slept in till 5:30am this morning.
The sandwich was too big and I skipped dinner while he had some microwavable meal (sorry).
Do Portuguese Eat Five Times A Day!?
Now we set our regular schedule as below.
Sleep: 9pm-3 or 4am, Office Hours: 4 or 5am-Noon, Breakfast: 5am, Second Breakfast: 8-9am, Lunch: Noon-1pm, Dinner: 5-6pm
We realize that it would be like going out every night if we went out every afternoon since our office hours are early morning to noon.
So we intentionally stayed home all this afternoon.
As we report that it doesn’t drain well in the shower, the owner came over this afternoon to try to fix it, but he was not able to. He promised to come back tomorrow morning with a solution.
Before he took off, I asked him about Portuguese’ eating habit or customs.
Then he explains that they traditionally eat five time a day.
- pequeno almoço (breakfast) – 7-8am
- almoço (lunch) – noon-2pm
- lanche (snack) – 4-5pm
- jantar (dinner) – 8-9pm
- ceia (late night meal) – 10pm or later
He added the diet trend has changes to healthier nowadays. Also, he mentions that Portuguese love talking about food. That’s wonderful! I love it too!!!
Then he kept talking about fish, seafood, seasonal food and wines in Portugal…
I tried as many Portuguese words as I can. He was happy to hear that.
He made my day more exciting!
Bank & Piri Piri Chicken
I successfully adjusted my time to our life here in Lisbon. I went to bed at 9pm and slept straight till 4am.
I worked on my blogs and youtube videos in the morning. We left for our bank to issue a bank check as a payment for our deposit/first rent to the long term landlord.
It was about 10 people waiting in the lobby and it took an hour to get our turn. Then it took additional 40 minutes to get a check issued. It was actually better because our realtor told us it would usually take 2 days to get a check.
We were starving when we got out of the bank branch around 1:30pm.
Time Out Market & The Lisbon Tour
Around 10:30am, we took off for Time Out Market for brunch.
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