The adventure of
SINTRA
2000-06-19
Ok, this is it. We, meaning Steven and I went to this wonderful place, or castel by the name Palácio da Pena, with this great view, yea right. The air was ful of dust and clouds and the magnificent view was totally lost for us. But instead of doing as most others would we fought our thoughts of going back to Lisbon and headed for our adventure. To the top!
View over Sintra mountain
Well up at the top there were really not much to see except for a rollercoaster entrance, or wait was this actually the castle we went all the way up here to see? Well since it was we better find the entrance and head for new visual experiences. But, not we arrived 15 minutes too late to get in and see it. Partying makes it hard to get out of bed in the morning, anyone else had that experience?! Time to enjoy the view or shall we say the close surroundings since the view we heard so much about were lost in the clouds. But look we found a skyscraper for birds, or? A really cool tree is it anyhow.
Tree in Sintra
Ok, well up we wanted to get down again. But why choose the easy way when you can make it hard for you self and go an another way. In to the woods!!
Steven in the woods
As if walking in the woods wasn't enough, the path just suddenly disappeared and was replaced with a really scary wall. It was old and very unstable but off we went and believe me, it wasn't a pleasant experience. I feared for fractures all way down. But afterwards I must say, other than that, it was very nice!
Old path
Ok, well down safe and sound, dirty up to our hips we went to the first coffee shop we could find and had a refreshing drink before entering the train back to "safe" Lisbon.