At Cascais, which is a beach resort also an hour or so outside of Lisbon, you can get free bikes in this town so we rode our bikes down the boardwalk until we were told by the police that we were not allowed to ride bikes down the boardwalk. We did a detour back through town and started to head for a beach that Michelle had heard was nice. So we rode for about 10km, before we finally stopped to see exactly where this beach was (turns out the beach was 2 km outside of town). We ended up at a different nice beach and spent a hour there getting sunburned. I will say that the scenery at this beach was excellent but Michelle did not enjoy the scenery as much. We headed back to Lisbon to see a traditional Fado concert which I’ll let Michelle explain about. I’ll just say that it was better than I thought it would be.
Saturday night we finally got to the go to the Music Festival that we had extended our time in Lisbon for, Oeiras Alive 07. After talking with a few people at the hostel who were also going, we decided to go together. We skipped the opening acts in favor of some cheaper beer and headed to the park about 8:30. The White Stripes came on at about 9:30. Let me just say that they are awesome live, one of the top sets I have seen. Its blue’s meets Led
Zepplin with searing drums. If you have not seen them go see them live. I said go! Run! What are you waiting for….I said GO! The Smashing Pumpkins version 2.0 came out at about midnight, fittingly in long flowing white spacesuits with white capes. All they were missing were the white cone hats and it would have looked like something a lot more offensive had showed up with guitars. They were enjoyable but they were no match if you put them up against the White Stripes. It was great night out with some fun people and some really good bands.
Saturday night we finally got to the go to the Music Festival that we had extended our time in Lisbon for, Oeiras Alive 07. After talking with a few people at the hostel who were also going, we decided to go together. We skipped the opening acts in favor of some cheaper beer and headed to the park about 8:30. The White Stripes came on at about 9:30. Let me just say that they are awesome live, one of the top sets I have seen. Its blue’s meets Led
Zepplin with searing drums. If you have not seen them go see them live. I said go! Run! What are you waiting for….I said GO! The Smashing Pumpkins version 2.0 came out at about midnight, fittingly in long flowing white spacesuits with white capes. All they were missing were the white cone hats and it would have looked like something a lot more offensive had showed up with guitars. They were enjoyable but they were no match if you put them up against the White Stripes. It was great night out with some fun people and some really good bands.(Michelle)
The bike trail from Cascais was along a protected Dune area, a very nice ride. The view at the beach was nice accept the underage girls that TJ was staring at (his version of good scenery). :)The Fado festival was held at the Castle of Sao Jorge. While the music generally seemed upbeat (see our attached video under Video link), Fado is usually about some sort of longing for unrealized dreams. The music and castle atmosphere were very nice and we really enjoyed it (TJ was even pleasantly surprised as he indicated above).
Oeiras Alive – TJ may have missed his calling as a music reviewer. All I can say is White Stripes put on an incredible live show. The videos taken on my little camera obviously aren’t good sound quality, so don’t judge off those!
Overall, Lisbon and the area surrounding were a lot of fun and a trip to Portugal again would be high on my list.
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