As we’re all at home, praying hard that the global pandemic situation will improve, the only traveling we can really do now is through others’ stories and our own memories. Here’s a short story about a little misadventure back from my solo travels in the colorful city of Lisbon, Portugal. This post, “What Are You Waiting For?” was my original submission to World Nomads in … Continue reading What Are You Waiting For?
An alternative title: Learning The Hard Way That Porto Cannot Be ‘Done’ In A Day. By the time I’d realised that taking the public transport to Portugal’s second largest city, Porto, and planning to return to Lisbon the same day was not a great idea, it was already too late. I was already halfway through the three-and-a-half-hour journey to Porto on the slow train, with … Continue reading To Porto and Back in a Day: Solo Tripping to Lisbon, Portugal (Part 3)
No trip to Lisbon is complete without a day trip to the nearby UNESCO World Heritage town of Sintra, located just about 45 minutes away from the city by train. Sintra was the destination that drew me to Lisbon when I was deciding on the city to pick for my solo trip because I’d heard so much about the colorful Pena Palace, and so I … Continue reading The Fairytale Land of Sintra: Solo Tripping to Lisbon, Portugal (Part 2)
At sunset, as I walked out of the Cais do Sodré train station towards the aptly named Sunset Destination hostel I’d booked for the next five days, I looked up to the pastel colored sky – a calm blue chasing away the pink and orange hues of the setting sun that had already disappeared beyond the horizon – and at that moment, I knew that … Continue reading A Leap of Courage: Solo Tripping to Lisbon, Portugal (Part 1)