Back home

I know we still owe you a report of our journey back home and I apologize I am late, but we needed a few days to recover :)

The last time we wrote, we were in Sintra. Next day we had a few hours left to explore Lisbon and we headed to the district of Belem (photos coming up). We visited a few sights in Belem, like the famous Tower of Belem and the church / monastery. All entrances were - oddly - free, so we saved quite some money and still visited all the major sights.

In the afternoon we took the airport bus and since we were the only 2 passengers on board it was like hiring a bus-taxi, all for ourselves :) Our flight was in the evening, we managed to buy a few bottles of wine port and ginja liquer before departure.

We arrived to Milan at about midnight, since our flight was running late and decided to oversleep on the airport and take the morning train to Gorizia from the train station. Well, our shuttle was due at about 3.20 am, so we didn't get much sleep. After the 50 minutes or so ride to the train station, we spent the next hour figuring out how to buy our train tickets from the damn machine.

Good thing we had no delays afterward, since the italian railway workers were on strike, but we had no problems with our train connections.

It was somehow weird and good coming home. Mom was waiting for us at the train station, and it was a bit of a touchy event. I do think a tear or two were also produced, but I'm not gonna say whose :)

Anyway, our backpacks are washed and ready for the next adventure :)