Greetings from Lisbon

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day

Lisbon! City on the river Tagus, capital of Portugal, home to over 3 million people and host to a long and amazing history in a country of wine and men of the sea. We've only been here one day and managed a small walk, but the architecture and the people are equal--amazing, easy on the eyes and very welcoming to a traveller.

This is all in contrast to our stopover in Frankfurt, where they are apparently leading the competition for least-friendly cold-war era concrete-block and oppressive police-state airport. If you wind up there, be sure to take advantage of all the free patting and x-raying!

But Portugal is a different kettle of people, all of them handsome and friendly. As a bonus the food is wonderfully good here, and wine is not only extremely good but also inexpensive and interesting. I couldn't normally find a 'Super Douro' (traditional Portuguese grapes vinted with the addition of Cabernet, Merlot and Syrah) back home, much less a whole page of them on a wine list.

Off to see a bit of Lisbon. Looks like rain, but that's okay--I'm from the lower mainland of British Columbia and we have gills for this sort of environment.

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