　　 Journey of PORTUGAL　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　日本語版

　　　　Lisbon Visit　

　　OCT.２００３

I participated in a tour named "Portugal large tour for eight days"
on October 28. The trip of the Europe in late fall is the first time
for me. What kind of clothes should go in ? Portugal that faces
the Atlantic Ocean where the warm current flows is not colder than
France and Germany in the inland. However, the rainfall increases
unlike summer after October.

This tour was via Paris by Air France.
AF-279 flights of the departure from
9:55 a.m. The model is Boeing 777.

　　　　　　　　　（a purser of Air France）
　
　　　

Lisboa 2,3
Évora
Buçaco
Porto
Aveiro
Coimbra
Fátima・　Batalha
Nazaré
Óbidos
Santacruz
Cabo da Roca・　　Sintra

　　　　　Next morning when I arrived at Lisbon on
　　　Wednesday, October 29, I strolled around
　　　the hotel until leaving of the bus. The
　　　hotel in Lisbon of the first day was in 　
　　　the northern area　of city. When walking
　　　I caught sight of the building of the dome
　　　like Islam style. It was under construction
　　　but I understood it a bullring of Portugal.
　　　　　

　　

　　　　　　　　　(a poster of zen seen in Lisbon city)

　　The bus leaves the hotel at 9:00 a.m.
　　It is city sightseeing of Lisbon in the
　　morning. Lisbon City is a town along
　　River Tejo as wide as the sea. The　
　　first destination is "The Tower of
　　Belen." The tower was built to watch
　　ships in the river in the 16th century.
　　We do not have time to enter to the
　　inside and take photographs from the
　　outside. Fortunately, the weather is
　　very good and we can see River Tejo
　　leading to the Atlantic Ocean.

　　　　

And there is a famous " Monument
of the Discovery" near the Tower.
It was built in 1960 in commemoraー
tion of Prince Enrique who was a
pioneer in the Age of Geographical
Discovery of Portugal in the 15^th.

　　　　　　　　　( Torre de Belén ）
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　
　　　　　

Next we visited Jeronimos Monastery
near the small hill. Manuel 1^st built it
in 16th century by　the wealth obtained
by Great Navigation of Vasco da Gama.
We could see the stone coffin of Vasco
da Gama in the church.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　（Parão dos Descobrimentos ）
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　

　　(Mosteiro dos Jerónimos ）　
　　　　

We got on the bus once after Jeronimos
Monastery, but get off near immediately.
It was a shopping in the souvenir shop
of Portugal. I was visiting alone the
Tropical Botanical Garden near the shop.

　　　

　　　　　　
　　

　　　　

We retuned to the downtown in
Lisbon and took lunch at the
restaurant Botequin do Rei of
the hill　where we could look
down at the city. Our tour
members are 24 person. And
a tour conductor is the first
man for me. A driver is a
Portuguese.

While my returning the bus after the lunch I met again
a Japanese business man together with his aged mother
by chance. Yesterday they sat on next seats of me in
the plane to Lisbon from Paris.　He said that he guided
her Portugal with the car.

We will go to Ebola from Lisbon this afternoon and the
next day go straight north, to Porto.　

　
　　

　（Parque　Eduardo VII 　）　　　　　　　　　　　　　

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