Internet Woes in Portugal

Apparently I made a hasty praise of the hotel and their internet access. When I got on the computer in my room when I first arrived, the system had not reset and allowed me some free access. They reset it last night and it´s a pay system. It´s a complete ripoff, charging 17 Euro (about 23 bucks) for 24 consecutive hours of access. That includes the eight hours you sleep, the eight I´ll be working and the hours for tourist stuff, exercise, bathing, etc. So it´s actually for probably two or three hours of evening access and that is just criminal. I´m using the free service downstairs, but I can´t upload pics or stay on too long. Boo!

On a good note, I did a three mile run this morning along the Tejo River here near the hotel. It was beautiful and so was the eye candy. I swear I passed a handsome muscular bear who looked just like mondragon. Too bad I couldn´t run and take photos at the same time!

Okay, off to lunch and touristy stuff.

Mark The Tourist in Portugal

Groping the King of the Sea
Never having been to Portugal, I did what I often do in new places. I took the double-decker bus tour. Unfortunately, I ended up buying the one that took me around the coast of the river, the area I had pretty much already seen walking around. So, I snagged the historic tour at one of the stops and went around.

Neptune here was supporting a large statue of someone locally famous, but it was tall and I didn´t manage to get the name like I normally do. I was amazed by the level of work this sculpting took, the musculature is perfect. Of course, when no one was looking I had to ham it up a bit. He said he´d call me, but you know how those god-types are.

I found a portable removeable drive in my backpack, but it only holds 120 MB, so there will be no mass gallery of photos until I get home. A photo here and there never hurts though. And, of course, there is a cleaner version of the photo above that I can show my mom.