The weekend right after Marrakesh, I went with some people to Lisbon, Portugal. The price for the flight to Portugal wasn´t as cheap as the flight to Marrakesh, but it still is cheap compared to flights in the US.
The weather in Lisbon wasn´t the best- the entire peninsula seemed to have pretty cloudy and rainy weather, but this didn´t detract from the trip as a whole. We all had a blast. We did a lot of walking and seeing as things, but we had a good mix of down-time as well which is necessary when traveling.
Portugal for me really has a Latin American taste to it because of the bright colored buildings and the food and such: all-in-all a really lively place filled with really warm people.
It was a lot of fun to speak Spanish to the Portuguese people and listen to them reply in Portuguese and THEN have to think about what that KIND of sounds like in Spanish and hopefully make the right decision on what they were saying- seriously I loved it. It´s a TON easier to read the language than to understand what they are saying, but they understand Spanish, and that made it really easy to get around.
Hostels are incredible. This hostel we stayed in was an actual real-deal hostel: filled with students traveling, many alone, and wanting to hang out and make friends. One night we didn´t go out, we just stayed in the hostel, cooked, and hung out with the other visitors in the living area. That´s what it´s all about. It´s so interesting to meet people that are basically doing the same thing are you are- it really is easy to talk to people when you are more-or-less in the same boat.
Easyjet is NOT incredible. We were delayed on the flight to and from Lisbon and not just by minutes. The thing about Easyjet is that they don´t really tell you you will be delayed. It just is something that slowly dawns on everyone. "ohhhh..ohhhh I think we´re going to be delayed." After everyone has that thought, and after the plane should have taken off for 20 minutes, then workers for Easyjet show up and change the monitor in the waiting area to "delayed." I´ll probably fly Easyjet again because they´re cheap :)
"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
Walt Whitman
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