August 3. The last day in Lisbon

The last day was mad rash. We tried to finish the work and then pack for our final week in Europe. On Saturday we were going to Algarve for two days. On Monday we were moving to Seville for the following four days and were planning to take day trips from there. Kids went to the Maritime museum in Belem with Irina.   

We usually don’t care much for the dress-up statue performance but we saw one near Baixa-Chiado that defied all imagination. He was dressed as a fallen angel – dirty corset, and flowing long skirts, wings made from real feathers. He was perched up on the wall of the train station – about a foot thick. A wrong move and he is tumbling down into the subway, five sets of twenty two stairs. As additional decoration there was a pile of books, candelabra, and some music playing. We got a mobile pic, I’ll upload later.

We got a bit of a scare picking up our car from Europecar. When making the reservation, I’ve explained that there will be two kids, two duffelbags, and a stroller. What we got was a new mini waltz wagon. Not even a stroller would fit in. We panicked and the very helpful, grumpy lady Manuelle let us have Ford Pinto that could fit all we needed. It just came back from two other renters and was not cleaned but that’s not a lasting state with the cars we rent anyway.  

In the evening we went back to the Indian restaurant in Bairo-Alto. The first time was better but it was still OK. In retrospect – should have tried something new J Thoth was going on again, for the last time. We really enjoyed our time here and were very sorry to leave. We also had much easier time working and enjoying ourselves thanks to Irina who missed her daughter for a month while she was taking care of ours.