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Wednesday ; sunny
Our body clocks are still playing up, we are feeling tired early and waking up early. We were wide awake at 4am, and by the time we needed to get up we were tired. Sometimes it's better just to get up.
We checked out and took a cab that was waiting outside the hotel to the airport, for the last time of our trip.
Checkins are made easy here in Lisbon because there's over 100 checking counters, and staff at every counter. We had a nice long breakfast in the airport before we needed to board.
The flight was 2h10min, strange thing we notice was that there is no difference in the time zones between lisbon and London. Even though London is further east than Lisbon, yet Madrid in Spain which is in-between the two is almost two hours in front. Maybe daylight savings has something to do with it.
We arrived and thankfully our faith in the baggage handling department has been restored, we had our bags.
We had a few options of leaving the airport, taxi $120, fast train $55pp. Or regular train $12. We chose the cheaper option of corse, and it was almost a 1.5hr trip. 2trains, 28stops not too bad considering on how much it costs to get to Kingsford smith back home.
We checked in to our ibis hotel at Wembley stadium, we were unlucky this time, didn't score a view room. But the hotel room is nice, big and new. It will do well for a couple nights. We chose this hotel because there was a deal going on, and it's only three train stops away from where hopefully we will be moving too in a couple days time.
We hung around in the room for a few hours watching finally some English speaking Telly, and got cleaned up. Before making a break for Mc Donald's to take advantage of the free wifi to contact some friends we are hoping to meet up with.
We made plans for tomorrow, they are: pickup a local phone sim card, say hi to my cousin at his work and pickup a few bank letters we had delivered to him. Then if there is time to go to the bank and open the accounts, and then go look a potential flats to live in.
If we don't get to the bank we will do it the day after, I need to meet with my future employers as well.
After a couple hours at Maccas we stopped off at a super market, for some goodies for breakfast tomorrow. It was £3.40-$5.50, we bought bananas, bread, juice, and a big peanut butter. The peanut butter would of cost $5 alone back home, I'm sure it will work out comparatively with our future wages though. Then went back to our room, and watched more Telly before bed.
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