Today I bring you to L’Oceanário, the 2nd largest aquarium in Europe. Part 1: Travel Diary Part2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary How to get there? This aquarium is located right next to a subway/train station called Oriente. In fact, people may not know it (especially since Google Maps does not highlight this route), but you can go from Lisbon airport to Santa Apolonia station in 20 minutes, taking a subway (red line) to Oriente, then a suburban train to Santa Apolonia => so this trip (subway + train) will only take 20 minutes, instead of 45 minutes by subway (red line + blue line). If you aren’t too…

Today we rent a car to explore the surroundings of Lisbon. We are accompanied by my sister and her boyfriend, who have come to visit us and Lisbon for the first time. Part 1: Travel Diary Car rental at Europcar Just next to our house (we are next to a TER train station: Santa Apolonia), there is a Europcaroffice ( official website) so we decide to rent a car from them. The fiat 500 costs 17€/24h and the Citroen C4 25€/24h. As we are 4, we opt for the Citroen C4, before discovering that they “upgraded” us and gave us a huge Jeep not super handy 🙁 Tour of Bélem…

When I arrive in Lisbon, I have the firm intention to continue my soccer world tour. Lisbon is indeed a stronghold of Portuguese soccer with two mythical clubs: Benfica and Sporting. I confess that I don’t know much about Portuguese soccer, but these two names breathe soccer. Benfica is the club of the mythical Eusebio (473 goals in 440 games!). Benfica evokes, for the supporter of Marseilles that I am, the semi-final of the league of champions 1990 with the goal of the hand of Vata which will eliminate OM. As for Sporting, it’s Cristiano Ronaldo ‘s training club (which I was lucky enough to see playing in Turin) On…

This is the first time we have visited Lisbon and we have heard a lot of good things about this city. It is with great excitement that we are looking for an apartment to rent for a month, allowing us to work from home and enjoy this city to the fullest. Unfortunately, from the first research, we immediately realize that this city has become very expensive because of the influx of tourists (like us…). Even the Portuguese can no longer afford to live near the city center. We inquired and tried to negotiate the rates on Airbnb, but all the owners answer us firmly, saying that electricity in Portugal is…