Last half of the year and we managed to get it at the same time as a yearly December trip – this time to Lisbon.
We had an early flight from Luton, which meant a trip up the night before – but did mean that we got to the hotel about midday on the Saturday. Room wasn’t quite ready so we walked up a long boring street to the “Winter wonderland” which was nothing of the sort, and back though some lanes where I bought a cable for my phone which ended up not working.
Went down to the Time Out market, which was a market, but with about 30 different little food shops – we walked for a bit, trying to decide and in the end went to one that you sat on the counter and had some reasonable pork with green stuff.
We then took a tram down to Belem which was where the race started, to have a look around. We saw some things and came back.
It got very busy in the evening so we walked around, then ended up having food in the hotel, which was nice and quiet and pretty good.
Next morning we found a little place to register, which saved us having to go all the way back to Belem.
Run was okay – pretty boring really, but pretty busy. Finished, got the first tram, showered, went out for a beer and a look at the castle and a ride on the rickety tram. All good.