Lisbon - "Saldos!"

This day seemed to be either boring or interesting. It really depends on the point of view. I took antihistamine and burana, and I was ready for the adventure.

Luckily there was this 'saldos', which means 'sales'. I guess it was the top of saldos, because the prices were so down that it amazed us and more surprisingly it got ME to shop CLOTHES.
50% Shop 1One was great shop - don't go there after the mid-day, because it's so crowded after works and school. It can be compared to Z.I.P or very stylished H&M, but in Portuguese way.
I accidentally bought a coat, a vest and a belt = 40€.



We also visited Portuguese fair, which can be translated in Finnish 'kirpparit'. It wasn't what we have used to think as 'fair', but I guess this is a cultural matter. Luckily it was morning so it wasn't that crowded. I didn't buy a thing, because the tables there were full of different kind of batteries, phone shells, used jewelry etc.
NOT INTERESTED.



13:00 was our hotel visit. We have been visiting many hotels in Finland, and hear about their booking systems and other stuff, but this 'visit' was the lamest of all. Seriously. It was our own hotel, and the man behind the reservation desk just didn't know what we wanted to hear, so every drop of information had to be forced out of him by stupid questions.
Another visit was this "Osiris travel agency", that gave us a free guide in the beginning of this trip. Actually I didn't catch anything useful from this place either, except that Portuguese people think "Finns are very serious. They have no time to smile and they seem to run 24/7". I was a lil bit confused, but I guess it's not a surprise.

Dining together! It's like having 2 families gathering around, and after that Italy might get bloody. (Lol, I quoted this one from one yaoi anime ;D)
In Portugal, remember three things while having a dinner - ignore random sellers, give a 10% tip AND ask at first if the starters are FREE or are they expensive. We fell on this trick and ate starters while waiting for the main dishes.
Big mistake.
Luckily I didn't take that big dinner, a sandwich with cheese and ham, but I didn't get the ham xD so it was all and all 2€.
After that, our 17 person-group wanted to pay the meal, and the check was OVER 220€!! Wait, was this the cheap Portugal we thought we were visiting??
Everyone paid their meals, but then begun the drama. Our starters costs over 50€, and the second group (not our group) didn't want to pay a cent because they were fooled.
At this point our group was losing our last drops of nerves and it was so close we begun to yell them to be adult-like. We paid the starters AND very big tip (because 10% of 220€ is big money..), and I have to thank Jutta and the other girl for the money the kids didn't want to pay.



And again free time.
We decided to go to check a huge shopping mall in Colombo area. This shopping mall was actually VERY COOL looking and if I remember right, there was over 500 shops in 3 levels. Unfortunately I was already so tired that I didn't feel like shopping at all, so I was just wondering around behind other people.
We didn't hang around long (because it seemed saldos was over in that place), and we went back to the hotel.



Notes:

My stereotypes of Portuguese people went totally wrong. Surely I should have been thinking about it's location, but~ I had this 'sekunda-espanjalaisia' (2nd type Spanish) stereotype, but colour of people varieted so much you couldn't tell the 'original folks'. Other thing is, that Portuguese face traits are pretty different, compared to Finnish. They have bigger and wider eyes and 'longer' faces. I just noticed.
*scream* THEY ALSO HAVE FEET KILLING HIGH HEELS!