Today was easily the best day of the trip so far, Lisbon is just an amazing city. The photo attached was taken from

Last night I arrived in Lagos, which is about 4 hours south of Lisbon by bus. The beaches here are amazing. I spent today dividing my time between the main beach near the marina which stretches just over a kilometer long, and some of the other smaller beaches that form below the cliffs. There's probably a dozen or so, all only about 50-100m long and they're sort of fenced in by these dramatic towering rock faces. You can pretty much just walk from one to the ne...

Today I wanted to do some shopping, but everything seemed pretty expensive so I ended up just window shopping. I checked out a few places on Oxford street, Selfridges dept store was probably the best, they had some cool stuff but it was all a bit over priced. Cut across through the massive Hyde park to get to Harrods. Within a few moments of walking into Harrods a security guard approached me and asked if I would carry my backpack "in my hand please sir". It ...

Yesterday was my first full day in London and the theme for the day was all about sight seeing aka "ticking the boxes". Started the morning with The Tower of London which is about 900 years old, and was used as a palace, monument and prison for 'traitors' you could see the ruins of a drawbridge, and also a pit that kept 'wild beasts'. Then I crossed over The Tower Bridge to get across the River Thames, and walked past Butlers Wharf, the Globe Theatre then into T...

After a long but fairly smooth flight over I landed at Heathrow airport a few hours ago (well technically the pilot landed). When the plane was descending to land, the top half of the windows looking out were foggy which had the effect of blurring the background slightly and making it look like we were flying into a model city. I caught 'the tube' from the airport to my hostel in Central London, and tried to remember which station names were from Monopoly. After ...