Today we decided to get out of the city and took the train to the nearby seaside town of Cascais (about 50 minutes away by train). Having not really done a great deal of research about Cascais I found a self-guided walking tour online and we decided to follow that. It wasn’t the most obvious of routes and didn’t have pictures of the sites it was guiding us to so we were mostly lost and confused. Luckily, the town isn’t exactly large so you can’t get lost for long and, a lot like home, most roads lead to the sea.
We saw the Praia da Rainha beach (a favourite of Queen Amélia), Fortress Nossa Senhora da Luz de Cascais (a fortified fort which has been repurposed as an art district), Cascais marina complex (a posh harbour with restaurants and shops) and the Boca do Inferno (a cliff side rock cave formation thing which has collapsed and is now a rock bridge, situated about 800m outside the town). The Boca do Inferno was good but the trip back to the town centre was the highlight. We rented electric scooters and scooted back to town in no time at all. Loved it.
We had a really nice lunch in a very unassuming Italian restaurant which served the most yummy wood fired pizza and Super Bock beer. Then headed back on the train towards Lisbon. Having enjoyed scootering SO much we decided to get off the train in a place called Algés (middle of nowhere) and hire scooters from the station. We then scooted 5.2 miles back to Lisbon past Bélem Tower, the Discovery Statue, etc. It was absolutely epic! It took 35 minutes and was heaps of fun.
In the evening we had dinner at a funky steak house (Palacio Chiado) near to the hotel.
LOVED scootay Sunday.