Lisbon - Tuk-Tuk queue

Lisbon: Day 1 

Sunshine - there's so much to like about a day in the sun.  Particularly if you've been enduring what passes for Summer in the UK this year.  Here for you is a popular mode of travel in Lisbon.  Well, popular with the tourists anyway.  

The Tuk-Tuk originally got its name from the sound its little two stroke motor made.  I'm not sure that all the 3 wheel Tuk-Tuks that we saw today were two stokes, but judging from the blue smoke that one or two were producing when going up some of the steep bits of Lisbon today, some of them certainly are still two-stroke engines.

Naturally, being British (!) and from cities that are also built on hills, Cathy and I happily marched up and down the hills today in the sunshine.  I suspect that tomorrow we will be happier to take advantage of the funiculars, trams and tuk-tuks ....

As we were doing the most popular tourist things today, there were innumerable  restaurant staff trying to persuade us to sit down in their bistro as we walked past.  Interestingly, from a statistical point of view, we had four other approaches today. One was from a man who wanted to sell us some flowers.  The other three approaches were from men very keen to sell us drugs, and who were showing us their little packages of cannabis and coke as they made their approach.  As I am wandering around with a very obvious camera, and Cathy looks very north European, we were very clearly labelled as typical middle aged tourists, more interested in port and custard tarts.  And I thought that you had to go to Ibiza for that sort of thing ...