Weather: 40º C sunny Mileage: Total Driven kms = 4,360 Today is our last day in Lisbon and Portugal as we head off to the UK tomorrow. We planned on this being a wash up day to view things we had not had time to visit. It started with a walk to find some building art we had seen from one of the buses. Interesting art with one of the pictures being a statement about the oil companies sucking the earth dry of oil. The others are a little less obvious to us....

Weather: 36º C sunny Today we caught the train to Sintra north west of Lisbon. It is an area full of castles, royal retreats and houses of the wealthy. Some of the buildings date back to the 8th and 9th century. We had some issues finding the railway station. Firstly we took the metro and got off at the right station. When we asked where to go for the Sintra connection we were told to “go up the steps over there and buy a ticket”. Unless we wen...

Weather: 35º C sunny Without boring you to death we had a difficult day with the hop-on/hop-off bus company and would not recommend this one to anyone. In fact we might do something by way of complaining about it on Trip Advisor or directly with the bus company. We weren’t the only ones who were not happy and we feel for the bus driver who received some verbal abuse by some for different problems than ours. For anyone reading this blog: do not use ...

Weather: 35º C sunny (except for 15 minutes) The area is called Cascais and it is pronounced kashkiees. It was the area of Portugal where royalty and nobles from Portugal and around Europe used to spend their holidays. It is now a popular holiday spot for both overseas and Portuguese tourists and the beaches are full of them. It is the area where the rich live hence the blog title CashCash. Today we got a 48 hour ticket for the hop-on/hop-off bus. There w...

Weather: 31º C initially cloudy then sunny Today we are on a day tour to Evora, an historical/monumental city. We were picked up by our 30 year old guide (Leonore we think) who then drove us to pick up the other 2 joining us. These 2 guys were friendly smiling Indian Psychiatrists attending a conference here. One lives in Invercargill and the other Melbourne. On the way we came across many storks nesting on the high tension electrical towers. We had seen...