Lisbon, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2023 – Ok, so there is no way I can possibly elaborate on everything in that much-too-long title, but that is how yesterday was – a mind-bending trip through history. We visited the oldest Megalithic site in Europe, huge granite boulders that helped ancient people trace the movements of the stars, and thus set their calendars for hunting, crops, harvest and preparing for winter. We saw an Augustan Age Roman Temple, still intact at the heart of the now Medieval city of Evora, where lawyer of history – the Romans, the Moors who ruled for 400 years, to the Christian King who set up shop here for a short period (and whose love spat sparked the Portuguese Inquisition.) We learned all this from a wonderful guide, Olga Miguel, whose life work is leading tours, and tours of the night sky, which we hope to do with her one day.

I wish I could tell more about our day trip to Evora, and the day trip the day before to Sintra, but we must be off to visit the Calouste Gulbekian Museum and the famous Azulejos tile museum. This is our last day in Lisbon and I will write more tonight when we are doing our laundry.