Our last day! After another lovely breakfast we checked out and they were happy to hold our luggage until we left for our flight that afternoon. We set out early because we had two palaces to visit!


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Sunday, we set off early, saying goodbye to our lovely hotel and a sleepy Bairro Alto, to Rossio station for our train to Sintra.

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Another beautiful sunny day and we realised we had so much left to see on our last day in Lisbon.

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Lisbon travel blog, or the pre-Brexit holiday. Day 1

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Back in work, with blisters upon blisters, aching calves and incredibly sleep deprived after flight delay meant we didn’t get home until 1.30 this morning.  It was a rather fantastic long, long weekend in Lisbon.  A full trip report will follow, with photos of course - probably not going to upload the full albums to Facebook, so I hope people spend ( Read more... )

Our final day in Mexico! The good thing about such a long and varied holiday though is whilst we were sad to leave, we'd been here long enough for one visit - although already decided we want to return! Unfortunately little opened on Mondays so we had limited opportunity to make the most of our final day.

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Sunday

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Saturday
Today we explore the Zocalo area of CDMX/Mexico City - slightly daunting, after all the warnings not to stray too far from the tourist areas and at the same time, so much that I want to see. It was a very, very busy day! (long post, many pics!)

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Friday

As we'd managed to visit so much in the area on Wednesday, we had time to visit Casa Azul this morning, conveniently located opposite our accommodation, having previously not relished the prospect of wasting half a day queuing to get in.

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Thursday
Today we finally get to visit Teotihuacan, the third biggest pyramid in the world and one of the places I was most looking forward to visiting. 

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