10 Hours in Lisbon - day to night discoveries in the land of fado

A travel piece based on my experience in Lisbon, together with four friends. 5 girls discovering the capital of Portugal on a summer night. First published on The Student Traveler - May 2003

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Five of us, all girls, took a couple of maps of Lisbon for potential orientation crises, a list of two or three "musts" to see and do, plus the bare necessities for the night, then headed for the city center. It was early in the afternoon. We had just arrived from the Azores and had to stay in Lisbon until our next, ridiculously early, flight for Rome the following morning. With a mixture of Before Sunrise revival and "what's the point in wasting money on a hotel room when we'll only sleep a couple of hours," we decided we'd rather walk around Lisbon all night.
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