May 28 - back to Lisbon where it all began

Very excited to be one step closer to seeing our Lucy..

Suitcases being crammed full.... the return flight packing is much like how I load a dishwasher...like a raccoon on Crack!

Bittersweet breakfast view...

This was a really nice place to stay

We had a pretty short drive to our last nights stay which was about 5 minutes from the airport.

We didn't leave until just after 11:00 and in no real hurray today. Finally got to see the cork up close. They basically shave it off the main trunk area .

Its super light, when you break it off the trunk it is almost like..oh yeah...a wine cork...

One last stop in a little town outside Lisbon called Comporta. Because its so close to Lisbon and such a small area bordered by nature reserves there, the old fishing village has turned into an area for the well-to-do. You would never know it by the little quaint town until you look at the prices in the little boutique stores!! The highest we have seen by a large margin!

Now off to Lisbon Airport to see if we can deal with the car ding before we have to leave tomorrow. 

Mayhem!!!  MAYHEM! Mayhem! The car rental drop off area is on about the 2nd floor of a partially enclosed parking area. Cars coming from everywhere, vacuums going, hand car wash, horns blaring......THE NOISE WAS NUTS!!  so we tried to explain to the person why we were there a day early as we had a ding, did not have claim papers....yada yada yada... and this young man, Daniel, turns out  was a supervisor and in the crazy mayhem he multi-tasked the heck out of the place and managed to not only direct us through the forms, he actually fixed the fender and then directed the guys to move vehicles in and out and maneuvered the car back out of the gridlock and essentially said, all good, just bring the papers back at drop-off and it will be good. 

Checked into our Guesthouse, super cute! Paula the host was so nice and friendly, bonus free parking, a two minute walk to the uptown restaurants .

After a nice walk in town finally found a place to eat! Great food, good vino!

One thing in Portugal....so many meals have an egg on top! I had no idea it was coming on my meal... but there it was!

And you can even get an egg for dessert!!

Early night to prepare for the flight home!