Category: Lisbon 2024

Rambling – June 22, 2024

  • Lisbon 3024
  • Weather: 60-85°/ blue skies with white clouds

I feel no guilt not revisiting Lisbon’s famous landmarks. Rambling suits my exploration. It is best way to soak up the local color. As Portugal is playing Turkey in the European Football Championship, everywhere people are glued to screens. With simple hand gestures, I keep up with the score and with Portugal’s ultimate victory. The streets are filled with national pride.

Yellow shopping bag in front of the Station.
Yellow Praça do Comércio.
Yellow house.
Yellow streetcar.
Yellow bag.

Manteigaria – June 22, 2024

  • Peniche – Lisbon 2024
  • Weather: 60-85°/ blue skies with white clouds

Manteigaria is by far the best shop for the regional Portuguese custard pie. Rambling by memory took me within a block of this hilltop location. Then all I needed to do was follow a trail of people with custard pies in hand to find the shop.

A sheet of thin buttered dough it rolled creating extra flaky crust.
Rolls are sliced.
Slices of dough are pressed into tart pans with dampened thumbs.
Custard filled tarts hot from the oven.
A large brass bell mounted under the counter is rung when custard tarts are hot from the oven.