• Travel,  Europe,  Food,  Portugal

    Portugal - Gastronomy

    When it comes to Portuguese food, the first thing that most people think of is the pastel/ pastéis de nata Portuguese egg tart. During my five days in Portugal, I would go to a different local egg tart shop to try one egg tart (sometimes more than one, haha). The Portuguese egg tarts I ate on the last day in Porto won. feel come...

  • Travel,  Europe,  Portugal

    Peneda-Gerês National Park

    Unexpectedly, the penultimate day of the trip to Spain and Portugal became the biggest highlight of the entire itinerary. Due to the high unknown coefficient, it experienced the ups and downs without risk. Everything has to start with the high school principal in the San Francisco Bay Area that I met the day before yesterday. He had just gone hiking in Peneda-Gerês, the only national park in Portugal, and showed me pictures,…

  • Travel,  Europe,  Portugal

    Porto

    When I woke up in the morning, I received a lot of messages from my friends, all about the impact of the new crown virus. Trump just announced that travelers from Europe will be banned from entering the United States for 30 days starting on the 13th. I am worried that I will not be able to go back. I will check the specific policy right away. Fortunately, this policy does not cover US citizens and permanent residents returning to the United States from Europe. I went to the Youth Hostel before I even came to wash up…

  • Travel,  Europe,  Portugal

    lisbon

    It was very late to return to Lisbon from Sintra last night. The first impression of Lisbon is that it is a mountain city, which is called the city of the seven hills. Wherever you go, it's basically an endless uphill and downhill run, like San Francisco. Just wandering around the city this morning, starting with Praça do…

  • Travel,  Europe,  Portugal

    Sintra

    There is really no other better choice. I can only take the night bus from Seville to Lisbon, Portugal in the middle of the night after watching the flamenco show last night. We arrived at the Lisbon train station at 10:00, and decided to take the train directly to Sintra. When I arrived, I found the only one outside the train station…

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