 | Getting ready for a city walk
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 | One of the typical stair cases
connecting two opposing heights |
 | Bathroom surveillance?
No – people here just love tiles, so they even put them on the outside walls of their houses |
 | Marble pigeoner
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 | Jonathan and Lena
on Commerce Square |
 | "Commerce" here referring mainly to obnoxious drug dealers
who try their luck unremittingly and every 50 meters |
 | Interesting scene
just below the castle which we didn't enter to save money |
 | Detail
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 | Lovely crammed street scene
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 | Enjoying the breeze
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 | Training to be a pro
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 | The larger context
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 | Of course we took the mountain railway
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 | Annoying french travel guide in Belem monastery
People here generally cared amazingly little about "don't talk" and "don't flash photo" signs – nor did talking people care about being flash photo'ed, so we gave up |
 | The Modern University
open for enrollment |
 | Belem Tower detail
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 | Belem Tower overview
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 | Belem Tower crowds
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 | Jonathan proudly presenting
his tasty two-euro iced tea |
 | Santa Eufemia near Sintra
one ugly church, but great view with no tourists |
 | Some outer chambers of the Moorish Castle
I didn't feel like paying to enter the main part |
 | Path to Sintra
carefully blocked |
 | Ok, the stairs look a bit ugly...
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 | ... but so much blocking effort just because of some ugly stairs?
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 | Sintra Palace
next to a red house |
 | Me reaching the top
without shoes... |
 | Running away from the AAMAS conference reception
They crammed hundreds of unsuspecting attendants into a round glass hall with nothing but some finger food and drinks, just to show off the local office park!? |
 | Jonathan applying a last-minute fix to our poster
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 | Cabo da Roca
the westernmost point of Europe! |
 | The bus dropped us here half by mistake
so we are a bit unoriented |
 | One last picture
then the bus takes us again |
 | The conference banquet
with lots of wine |
 | The conference
took place in the big white hotel in the back. Incredibly expensive, and you can imagine how the excavators and jackhammers from the construction site sounded in the small and hot conference rooms |
 | What can I say
a beach |
 | Debi and Jonathan
during our Sangria Day |
 | Amazing cliffs
|
 | Achim
about to take a picture |
 | Nice spot for fishing
|
 | Climbing paradise
|
 | Achim
hanging there |
 | Backyard in Cascais
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 | Small Cascais beach
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 | Back in Lisbon
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 | Eiffel's lift and the castle
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 | Lisbon overview
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 | Flying back home
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