A relatively uneventful day today. Grabbed coffee at my usual Copenhagen Coffee Lab on the walk over to our Galerias work space. In the morning we had a little business development work shop and then we had a town hall meeting and a little celebration for crossing the 100 mark. I worked at the office for a while but was feeling unusually tired so I headed home to work for the rest of the day and had a quick dinner at Time Out Market. The proximity of that place to my home is really hampering my motivation to explore other places to eat.
Category: Daily
Day 103 | September 6
A pretty uneventful day today. Swung by my favorite Copenhagen Coffee and then to our nifty Galerias work space and basically worked all day. In the evening my sudden need for some internet access took me into O’Gilins pub which had a decently good Irish Pub feel but certainly wasn’t anything to write home about. Then it was home to try and fall asleep before the nightly raging party started in the streets outside my window.
Day 102 | September 5
I didn’t get much sleep last night so today was a pretty low key day dominated by catching up on work that I let slide over the weekend. I headed over to my favorite Lisbon haunt; Copenhagen Coffee Lab (a productive improvement over my favorite London haunt; Scarfes Bar) and worked there for most of the day. I had a late lunch/early dinner at my other Lisbon staple; TIme Out Market and then dozed off while trying to catch up on the reading elements of work.
Day 101 | September 4
A more relaxed pace today as we spent the first half just lounging at Praia da Mata and the beaches in that same string. We tried to go over to Belen in the evening but it was completely overrun with tourists so we went back to our neck of the woods and had the best sangria I’ve ever had at some little wine bar before going to dinner at The Decadente.
Day 100 | September 3
Hey, 100 days in. My day count is a little fast of the larger groups since I count from when I actually left and started traveling and not our official start date. As one might imagine, it’s completely flown by. Today we did a food walking tour of Lisbon. The GD data on my phone wasn’t working so I didn’t note everywhere we went but it was a good overview. Not as good as my food tour in Prague but still fun. After that we went to the famous Lisbon Oceanarium which was very cool but I didn’t think it lived up to all the hype that I’d heard about it. In the evening we went to Cruzes Credo which was great. Perfect outdoor patio, good food and very reasonably priced.
Day 99 | September 2
More work was still on the docket today so we posted up at the Sofitel for basically the entire day and slowly had breakfast, lunch and drinks there while working. In the evening we went to Bengal Tandoori for dinner which I had been hearing good things about. It was very good put I’m hardly an expert on Indian food.
Day 98 | September 1
There was still a lot of work that needed doing today. After walking all the way to check out another coffee shop/cafe that I had heard was a good place to work from it, of course, ended up being closed. We wandered around for a while but finally had to get to work so ended up at the ever faithful Starbucks. Work dominated the whole day and for dinner we reprised my favorite meal to date at A Cevicheria
Day 97 | August 31
Hectic day today getting caught up on work. I was dealt a crushing blow early on in the form of my new favorite coffee place being too packed to get in to. I headed over to our Galerias work space to work and spent most of the day there before running into a one cute girl on the street and then going for dinner at Sommelier Lisbon.
Day 96 | August 30
A lot of work to do today so I headed over to Copenhagen Coffee Lab to work for the morning. This turns out to be a great coffee shop. Good coffee, strong WiFi and possibly the best yogurt/granola concoction that I’ve ever had… though I haven’t had many so what do I know. Then I went over to another one of our workspaces; Galerias de Sao Bento. This place is awesome, easily our best place since K10 in Prague. Nice courtyard area, rooftop, a cafe that apparently never opens… all kinds of cool stuff. The whole town closes down mid-afternoon until evening so by the time I was ready to eat I had to wait until dinner so I went back to Time Out Market for dinner.
Day 95 | August 29
Today we settled into Lisbon with our usual arrival orientation. I had a lot of work on the docket so afterwards I just hung around Leap Center, one of our three work spaces throughout the city. The feel is more mainstream than what we’ve had so far. Just like being in the office. I spent the whole day there and then while walking home I happened past A Cevicheria which was recommended to me just the night before so I decided to stop in there for dinner. I had the tasting menu and a couple of pisco sours and was blown away. The overall vibe of the place, quality of my waiters and the excellent food put it in the running for my favorite meal on my travels so far. I’ll be going back for sure. I was in and out very early (especially by Portugese standards) so then I called it an early night.