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What I Ate Wednesday 35 – A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal

We made it!!! S and I touched down in Lisbon, Portugal on Sunday morning, and with no sleep, we’ve been busy exploring the streets and sites! The weather has been beautiful, the food has been DELICIOUS, and we’ve been having SO much fun. As much as I’d like to give you a play-by-play of our first few days in this gorgeous country, I want to maximize our time here, in the moment, and just give you a run down of the eats…

What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally

We woke up nice and early (for vacation after all) at 7:30am so we could get to Sintra before the day became a real scorcher! We’re staying at a great boutique hotel in the Alfama area of Lisbon that’s on top of a hill (if you’ve been here before…surprise, surprise!) and have breakfast everyday at the hotel (that I document on snapchat–> @chelseyamer). Just how gorgeous is this view…I’ll move here now!

What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally

Clearly we needed to try a little bit of everything! 

…a bunch of fruit, including the “national melon,” the Portuguese cheese (no one could give me another name!), delicious whole grain bread with jam (because when on vacation, we eat the bread and jam!), and a few bites of scrambled eggs.

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We walked hiked to the train station, and given our tourist status, didn’t realize our Lisbon cards were actually tickets so we waited on a long line and then found out we had tickets the entire time! Needless to say, we missed our first train (so much for waking up early!), so grabbed some water at the Starbucks at the train station and enjoyed a gorgeous view of the Castelo Sao Jorge (that we had visited the previous day)! [You can see it fuzzy under the light at the top of the photo…]

What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally

We got on the next train and 40 minutes later arrived in Sintra — “a favorite summer retreat for Portuguese kings,” according to our guide book!

After taking the bus up the mountain to get to the Palacio da Pena, we hiked about 10 minutes to the actual palace and woahhhh….never seen anything like it…

What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally

We toured the Palacio for about 2 hours, with our audio sets in hand…I am MOST definitely a tourist when I travel…

What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally

Backpack, check! Audio headset, check! Straw hat and sunglasses, check, check!

No worries, we stayed hydrated with plenty of water along the way!

We decided to hike down the mountain to visit the Moorish Castle and another palace on our way down, but somewhere along the way we took a wrong turn and missed the Moorish castle, and found our way back to the center of town an hour later. But our detour was a win because we had some gorgeous views on the way down…

What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally

It was definitely time for some lunch after walking around the cute center of Sintra…I wound up with a Nicoise salad and stole a few of S’s chips (not pictured) for added crunch and the salt…

What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally

We walked back to the train and got back to Lisbon proper by 4:30pm and walked back to our hotel. We were HOT and exhausted and I definitely needed a snack before nap time as I knew we were having a late dinner with friends! We had picked up some apples at a market in Sintra so I munched on an apple with some edamame that I brought from home (I alllwayyysss travel with snacks for this exact reason!).

What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally
We had plans with some friends who are on Remote Year in Lisbon right now, so we met them at a cool rooftop bar/restaurant around 9pm for drinks and dinner on the border of the Barrio Alto neighborhood. I was too busy living to snap pics (dontcha hate it when that happens?!)...We had Brazilian caipirinhas and then dinner at Ponto…with a gorgeous view of Castelo Sao Jorge at night (that didn’t photograph too well)...
What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally
For dinner I had grouper with vegetables and some potatoes…it was delish, but no pic, so here’s my paella from the night before in case you didn’t see (SO GOOD!).
What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally
And then we had a fun night out in Barrio Alto! First we stopped at a cool rooftop bar called Park — it’s on the roof of a parking garage with great views. Then we roamed the streets…Everyone drinks in the street and the bars are empty — so different from New York (no open containers of alcohol allowed), and for a Monday night it was SO crowded! Oh and beers were legit 1 euro each! We got back to our hotel after 2am and shluffed (went to bed) so quickly from such a busy and fun day!
What I Ate Wednesday 35 - A Day of Eats from Lisbon, Portugal | C it Nutritionally
After a great 3 days in Lisbon (I’ll give you a FULL recap when I get back!), we’re off to Obidos and up north to Porto….follow along on Instagram and snapchat (@chelseyamer)!
Hope your eats are just as delicious this week!
XO

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  1. So many gorgeous shots and great eats. That paella…YUM! Have an amazing remainder of your trip 🙂