EYWandBTV

Thursdaysd: I didn't know about the Museu do Oriente, rats! I am putting it on the list for our October visit.

thursdaysd

If you're going back some other suggestions: Palácio dos Marqueses de Fronteira, Igreja da Sao Vicente, Museu das Artes Decorativas, Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida, Museu do Design e da Moda .....

And the to-die-for chicken at the no frills Bom Jardim.

EYWandBTV

Thursdaysd: I put all of them on the list!

natylou

KarenWoo

We also loved the Mosteiro De Sao Vicente De Fora! It has gorgeous blue & white tiles and an awesome view Of Lisbon and the river from it’s rooftop.

Maribel

EWYandBTV,
I just want to say that your trip report is just beautifully written with great photos, really keen personal observations and it's been an absolute joy to read! One of the best TRs I’ve read here on Fodor’s!
I’ve also used your lovely Sintra and Evora hotels, (don’t know yet the Memmo Alfama just the Memmo Príncipe Real), and we also really enjoyed our huge codfish and migas meal at Tabua do Naldo in Evora (the migas tasted like Thanksgiving stuffing to me too!).

It was a great idea starting your trip with a 2-day Sintra stay before tackling Lisbon at the end. I really liked your description of Lisboetas as “no stress folks” and extremely kind ones to boot. And Portuguese sounds like Russian to me as well. Reading it is one thing...understanding spoken Portuguese another. And the Gulbenkian is also my ideal museum, just perfectly arranged, easy to tour and every gorgeous item displayed is of impeccable taste. What I missed on our last visit were the photographs of how each of his treasure were originally displayed in Mr. Gulbenkian’s Paris mansion.

For your next Lisbon visit I’m sure you’ll enjoy the small Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida decorative arts museum that Thursdays mentions, another jewel of a former private collection (more interesting to me than the Museum of Decorative Arts), housed in a beautiful mansion on a lovely street off the Avenida da Liberdade and also the stunning tile museum, covering 5 centuries of tile making. We find Lisbon easy to love. Again, kudos for a fantastic trip report!

virginiafish

Thank you for this excellent trip report. We are just beginning to plan for a possible Oct., 2020 trip and this is very helpful.

mlgb

Love your report. I think your timing was helpful, the hosts at my bnb in Sintra said it really starts to wind down in November, so the later in October, the better. Lisbon was mobbed when I was there which was mid-October ( I arrived the same night as the zombie Hurricane Leslie). There were some cruise tours at the Jeronimos Monastery, but I think many tourists were just Europeans on cheap RyanAir etc flights. Alfama was also mobbed and good luck getting on that Tram.

I did like Lisbon and sort of wish I had skipped the prior stay in the French countryside, but it was a family thing. From the west coast, it's just too much of a PITA to go back, though.