So it seems I'm going to Lisbon for a short break. What's good there, then?

All recommendations welcome.

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I may head that way.
I am going on a cruise for some reason but will end up in Spain with free time to head anywhere I want.

Maybe I will go down and solve the Madeline case :sherlock:

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I may head that way.
I am going on a cruise for some reason but will end up in Spain with free time to head anywhere I want.

Maybe I will go down and solve the Madeline case :sherlock:

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You don't need to go to Portugal to solve the Madeline case, f.

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He's also abducted all the apostrophes

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Wouldnt put it past him.

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There's a club underneath the Hatrd Rock Café where I chatted to Alvin Martin and played piss tennis with Ray Houghton. I also tried to persuade someone who wasn't Sepp Maier that he was Sepp Maier.

The bacalhao is jank.

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Can't remember, was arse-holed from the moment I arrived until I left. Do vaguely remember enjoying it though

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There's a club underneath the Hatrd Rock Café where I chatted to Alvin Martin and played piss tennis with Ray Houghton. I also tried to persuade someone who wasn't Sepp Maier that he was Sepp Maier.

The bacalhao is jank.

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Why would someone claim not to be Sepp Maier?

I like bacalhao fritters. Generally, though, you're right.

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Similarly I can recommend the hospitality village from the Euro 2004 final but little else. I spent a couple of hours in the airport once as well - nice chicken place

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You people are no use.

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In fairness, my recollection of Munich is similar

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Buy sardines from the withered old men with buckets of charcoal. Sit on the floor outside one of the bars in Barrio Alto and scoff them with some oaky Portuguese white.

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Buy sardines from the withered old men with buckets of charcoal. Sit on the floor outside one of the bars in Barrio Alto and scoff them with some oaky Portuguese white.

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Why would I sit on the floor? :-(

Pastel de nata and Brazilian cocktails.

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It was hot when I was there. Stinking, stinking hot. The main square was set up to hold the thousands of England supporters gathered foir the game against whoever it was. My chum went into a Portaloo to relieve himself and came out crying, "That's not a bog, it's a fúcking piss sauna!"

Piss sauna. 15 years down the road and I still chuckle at 'piss sauna'. :hehe:

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In my top 10 of hugely over-rated things

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Oooh, Caipirinhas? I remember getting quite hammered on those at a churrasco in Austin.

100 degree heat, hard liquor and a massive load of meat. What could possibly have gone wrong?

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There are many spiks and few (if any) seats. But it’s quite romantic, really. Old man playing guitar, even older men cooking sardinhas, everyone else sitting around drinking & eating. Wd Portugueses.

You can find some steps to sit on if the floor is too demeaning.

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They're very nice, but they're just custard tarts at the end of the day.

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There are many spiks and few (if any) seats. But it’s quite romantic, really. Old man playing guitar, even older men cooking sardinhas, everyone else sitting around drinking & eating. Wd Portugueses.

You can find some steps to sit on if the floor is too demeaning.

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I'm 45 years old. I'm fúcked if I'm sitting on the floor anywhere. Could play havoc with me piles.

I now fancy a couple of char grilled sardines with a sprinkling of mint and lemon juice

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Open a tin of sardines in tomato sauce and chuck them on a slice of toasted Mother's Pride. Nonse of that EU rubbish round here.

Nonce to you too mate

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Blimey that takes me back to the seventies. Next night: Toast Toppers.

Bird's Angel Delight for afters

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Shippam's Fish Paste, mate. Oh, yes. I'm pretty sure one whiff of that on hot toast could take me back to 1979.

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:nono: Instant Whip.

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Cor, I could fancy Toast Toppers. There was a mushroom one that was exceptional.

Let me just say this: Findus Crispy Pancakes. Beef and onion flavour :eat:

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Oooh, Caipirinhas? I remember getting quite hammered on those at a churrasco in Austin.

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That's the ones. They sent me the same way. They were so sweet you could barely taste the alcohol after a few of them. Din't help that they served them almost by the litre. Dangerous stuff.

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Shippam's Fish Paste, mate. Oh, yes. I'm pretty sure one whiff of that on hot toast could take me back to 1979.

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Good God! They still make it. I may have to have some as an amuse bouche prior to my grillsteaks and crinkle-cut chips next week. :eat:

http://www.princesgroup.com/brands/shippams/

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Some years ago, feeling nostalgic for Angel Delight, I bought a packet of the chocolate flavour job. Being a sophistcated adult, I decided to make it with double cream instead of milk.

It was good. It was soooooo good. :cloud9:

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Good God! They still make it. I may have to have some as an amuse bouche prior to my grillsteaks and crinkle-cut chips next week. :eat:

http://www.princesgroup.com/brands/shippams/

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Will you have peas with the grillsteaks? You must ensure that they are NOT petits pois. You want big fat peas. From a tin.

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Cor, I could fancy Toast Toppers. There was a mushroom one that was exceptional.

Let me just say this: Findus Crispy Pancakes. Beef and onion flavour :eat:

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Chicken & Mushroom was superior. Beef and onion smelled like a tramp's pants.

Bizarrely, they discontinued the chicken and mushroom and now you can only get the tramp's pants flavour.

I'd guess this was because the chemicals used to make the chicken and mushroom delicious were almost certainly made illegal.

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Don't whatever you do sit in a bar watching Arsenal play Man Utd at OT. #game50 #MikeRiley :-(

I went to a posh restaurant on a hill overlooking the old town which was a fine view. No idea what it was called. Otherwise wander round the old town eating fish and drinking Superbok. Even the eggs taste of fish. :-|

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:nod: We didn't have petits pois in my day.

Or I could have beans? :rubchin:

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Now I fancy a chocolate Nesquik

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Don't whatever you do sit in a bar watching Arsenal play Man Utd at OT. #game50 #MikeRiley :-(

I went to a posh restaurant on a hill overlooking the old town which was a fine view. No idea what it was called. Otherwise wander round the old town eating fish and drinking Superbok. Even the eggs taste of fish. :-|

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I mostly intend to eat clams.

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Chicken & Mushroom was superior. Beef and onion smelled like a tramp's pants.

Bizarrely, they discontinued the chicken and mushroom and now you can only get the tramp's pants flavour.

I'd guess this was because the chemicals used to make the chicken and mushroom delicious were almost certainly made illegal.

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You seem rather well acquainted with tramp's pants. :sherlock:

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:nod: We didn't have petits pois in my day.

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I'm thinking of the picture on the box... definitely peas, I'd say. Beans might be a bit... common.

These crinkle-cut chips. They're not going to be of the oven variety, are they?

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I preferred strawberry. Your mum would always tell you not to put too much powder in, not realising that what you wanted was the sludge at the bottom.