Location: Pensão Prata, Lisbon
Weather: cool, grey, overcast

I just finished unpacking and I´m sitting on the bed looking out at a tiled rooftop of the building next to me. The Pensão Prata is a small guest house in the heart of Lisbon, and the traffic noises coming through the open window make me wonder how much sleep I´m going to get tonight. Immediately below the window is a trolleycar line, which fills the air with hissing, clanking and scraping, familiar noises to anyone who´s lived near Toronto´s streetcars.

My gear all made it through the trip intact, except the wash kit which suffered from an open-capped shampoo bottle. Classic mistake. It didn´t make it out to the clothes, but the goop seems very difficult to expunge from the wash kit itself. Dousing it with water just produced an endless supply of bubbles. I suppose this is hardly a crisis, although it does seem silly that after all the travelling I´ve done I can still make this kind of basic error.

Tomorrow I´m going to check out the city. Apparently many of the museums are closed on Mondays, but I´ll sort out the transit system, get a sense of the layout, maybe book my next stop (Evora), and take a look around a sight or two. It´s supposed to rain later in the week so I want to have my bearings and my plans in place to minimize drenchings.
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