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| These very fancy mosaic style sidewalks were everywhere. |   A memorial to the Grande Guerra (i.e. World War I). For Portugal, it was the big war, because they stayed our of World War II. Many more Portugese died of hunger during World War I than were killed in battle. | Walking down the Avenida da Liberdade |   The train station | I thought this clock face was kind of interesting |   Interesting facade on this building. I wonder if it has any function other than ornamental? |   The Se Cathedral cloister - archeological digs are going on |   Chinese guy weaving insects out of bamboo |   At St George's Castle. It is beautifully located with a great view, and wonderfully cool in the shade on a hot sunny day. Also, ice creams were about 1/3 the cost of the same ice creams in Geneva. Lots of school kids were visiting. |             In our hotel room, this little emergency/SOS cord is required by law. The same was required in Spain. Seems like a prime example of government regulations going overboard. Note that it's looped around the shower curtain rod a few times, which of course makes it nonfunctional. I wonder what would happen if you actually did pull it. | In Belem. Kenny is standing on Switzerland |   Belem tower. We didn't go up. |   Jeronimos Church and Monastery. This is the final resting spot of Vasco da Gama | The cloisters at Jeronimos were magnificent. |       The church, seen from the cloister |   At the Electricity Museum (free!), in an old electricity plant. Interesting old building, and a very well done museum. |       At the Aquarium | Scrubbing the coral with the brush |       Ourside the aquarium were some manmade little hills that kids were having lots of fun on | View from the aerial tram |   At Castelo Mouros, the Moorish castle in Sintra | These silos were for grain storage |     The stone blocks were made by drilling these holes, putting wood in them and then wetting the wood, which cracked the blocks. | Looks like something from a fairy tale |           As we were taking the bus back to town, this very, very irate customer was upset that his group was split up. He held up the bus for a good 10 minutes |   At the Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra. It's an old estate, where the owners went absolutely wild with garden features - it's full of caves, lakes, towers, etc. | A mini-chapel |       Some man made grottos |   Views of the Moorish Castle |   Spooky pictures in the cave |     A moving stone door |     At a playground - these swings had some cross-cables that made them unusable. It was really strange | The view from the top of the Parque Eduardo VII |   The kids enjoyed trying to catch some fish | On the famous Tram 28. We waited a round to get seats up. | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||