WALLYTOUR

Bought ourselves a couple of "red rover" tickets for the Lisbon transport system & did our own thing. Xmas has arrived here already, lot of people, decked out road trains, street sellers everywhere. We went along the River Tagus waterfront which is pretty good with modern & clean facilities, nice promenades. We used bus, team & metro to get around the sights, all easy to use but the teams were crowded. They use old historic trams in the city centre that are so crowded, you have to queue for ages. Ended up at the Gulbenkian museum that houses his private collection. Very sumptuous. He was an Armenian oil billionaire & collected widely. He had a large Lalique collection containing none of the glass paperweights you see on bargain hunt. Beautiful gold & enamel jewellery of which the dragonfly brooch is stunning. The picture of glass tower is the lift that takes you up to the next street level - it is so hilly in places.