November 8, 2018           Lisbon Tuesday Nov 6^th

Second post today November 8th

Our last day in Lisbon, so of course we are off to see two museums.  To get to the first museum we took our FIRST Uber ride.  Our flight leaves Wednesday at 7:15 and the Metro doesn’t start until 6:30.  Sue ordered the Uber and it took about 12 minutes to arrive.  Our driver was a very nice young man from Angola.  He has been driving for Uber for about three months.  The ride was a lot faster than the bus, we arrived at the museum by 10:30.  So now we all set for tomorrow.

The first, the Monasterio of Jeronimos, Monastery of Jerome is not an art gallery.  It is a 500 year old historical site that has the tomb of Vasco de Gama.  Vasco is another guy I read about in grade school.  Prince Henry (1394-1460) and Vasco de Gama (1460-1524) are two people who made Portugal a major power in the 15^th and 16th centuries.  How could we not visit the tombs of both men?  There was a small snag when we got to the Monastery, there was a special Mass going on in the Church where de Gama’s tomb is located.  The Church would be open to the public after 14:00, so we visited the Cloister of the Monastery.  Then we took the bus to the Museum of Ancient Art.

The Museum of Ancient Art has many paintings by our Dutch and Flemish artists, so of course I had to take more photos.  Then we had lunch at the museum, and the food was very good.  The museum wasn’t crowded, but the restaurant was.  We took the bus back to the Monastery to see Vasco's tomb and take more photos.  We took the bus home, and that is where I saw that unusual tree that I photographed.  It doesn’t take much to amuse me.

We packed up and were ready to have Uber pick us up tomorrow morning at 5:00.  Everything went well.  The Uber driver today had only been driving 13 days.  We arrived at the airport in plenty of time.  Our two hour flight to London Heathrow was full, but the flight was fine.  We had a pretty short layover at Heathrow, but again everything went well.  We flew in a new 787.  Sue had picked the exit row, so we had plenty of leg room.  The flight landed about 40 minutes early, Jude picked us up and we then we were home.  It was another great trip.

Our next trip is to a tour to Israel in March.  The first tour for us, so expect a lot of photos from the tour bus.

Lisbon Tuesday Nov 6th