Lisbon: a few photos from yesterday

 Dome in the Jardim da Tapada das Necessidades

The dome à quaver!

Stunning bougainvillea in the jardim

 

 A hedge or a house?

 A solitary fish in a box on the pavement

 Seats in the Jardim: awaiting card players

 Formal garden@the Foreign Ministry

 'One of my souvenir statues': André Riberhino

 House near Jardim da Tapada das Necessidades awaiting renovation 

 Cockerel in Martim Moniz

Sea monster in Martim Moniz

Lisbon: a few more pics

 Casa dos Passarinhos: not glossy but a great neighbourhood restaurant

and wonderful value

 Tiles@the Danish Embassy

 Abandoned and ruined building in Lapa

 Back in the Tapada das Necessidades  

(above and below)

 Green growth in a tree trunk

 A face of bitter disappointment – 

evidence that corked wine has long been a problem?

 The Foreign Ministry attached to the park

 Renovation along Lisbon's central waterfront: Ribeira das Naus

 The central part of Martim Moniz has been trasnformed with 

a series of little stalls selling snacks _ Indian, Japanese, Vietnamese etc. 

Ideal for an unprentitious, cheap light lunch

 Succulent flowers in Estrela Park

Lisbon: a walk in the sunshine

Sign on a boarded up building at the Largo do Rato

After being in wet Lisbon now for best part of a week the weather has cleared and cheered up – last night's heavy rain giving way to sunshine. Fortunately last night's rain was without the winds that battered the UK over the last 24 hours.

Certainly this has been the best day weatherwise since Monday, so time to take a walk down to the Centre – Rossio and Martim Moniz by way of the Rua do Salitre and down the Avenida da Liberdade bathed in early Spring sunshine.     

 Statue on Avenida thoughtfully 

wrapped up against cold weather!

 An Oculista just off the Avenida (above and below)

It is some time since I have been down to Largo Martim Moniz (above and below), so this is the first time I have seen the improvements to the centre of the square with some shops and cafés with awnings each with a bike suspended.  

Martim Moniz is able to be renamed: 

Largo do André Riberinho!

I had headed to Martim Moniz hoping to find some interesting shirts in the Centro Commercial Mouraria but sadly there was nothing of any interest.

Reflections in the Hotel Mundial, Martim Moniz

Part of a mural@Rossio Station: the magnificent 

station where trains depart for Sintra

Largo do Carmo

From Rossio up the steep hill to the Largo do Carmo where a singer, Brita, was playing solo:

 A CD for €5