Viki's Escape Routes

  Starting 2024, I made a decision that I would go to more cultural events. With this in mind, I bought "9a SINFONIA DE BEETHOVEN" tickets after convincing 2 people. The reason started with seeing a billboard in Lisbon while walking on the street on New Year's Eve and continued with buying the concert tickets for February 17th thinking that it was in Lisbon. However, a week before the concert, I had a hunch and when I checked the tickets, I realized that the stage was in "Figueira da Foz". We immediately made an organization as a team, rented a car and decided to set off in the morning. We even thought if we could stay the night, but my friend said that we could travel at night and return home. We rented a car from Lisbon airport via Uber and set off for the city of "Coimbra". In this part, I would like to talk about the quality of wc and food while traveling between cities. Let's never underestimate my beautiful country Türkiye, the gas statio...

    Hello everyone! This week a new roommate has landed to our flat, my gender. So in her honor I decided to take her out for a night out in Lisbon on the second night of her arrival. I asked her, "do you like fish?" She said she loves sushi. I said "noooo, we are going to eat fish, Portuguese style". I didn't want to take her to too touristic places but we ended up in a place like that in the center. Of course, I started the night by giving her information about the train station and how to use her card. Then we started climbing up a beautiful Lisbon hill and came to the street "Rua Do Diário De Notícias", which is now a touristic street with fado and fish restaurants. It is located on the "Bairo Alto" region, which has a lot of bars & places to hang out, where you can have a nice meal and then go dancing. In fact, this street is also famous for the fact that it contains a historical building, which started publishing newspapers in 1865,...

   I hope you are all having a pleasant and beautiful beginning of summer. I would like to start my post with "Arraial" which gives Lisbon a festival atmosphere in June 😊 While Portugal celebrates the popular Saints, Lisbon celebrates "Santo António" with festivals. It is possible to find free events, street parties, theaters and many other events that you will love. Families with children can also find a variety of activities, and sometimes you may even come across open-air cinemas. It is possible to find a list of "Arraiais" or local festivals on their websites before June.   The streets are decorated with flags, lights and all sorts of decorations, and everywhere you can find street food trucks serving traditionally Portuguese street food. Here " Lisboa Secreto " have shared a list fort he last year. On different days this year I went to "Misericórdia" in Bairro Alto, "São Miguel" in Alfama, the little Arraial around ...

  We Turks love having breakfast, it is very traditional for us. Of course, you have to skip the big breakfasts while maintaining a healthy sports life, but a Saturday / Sunday breakfast is never indispensable. You can find various cheeses, olives, different types of eggs cooked differently, butter, lots of tomatoes in summer, pastries, fried foods (although I don't eat much), “simit”, “gözleme”, honey, jam/marmalade and all kinds of local flavors at the breakfast table. So I wanted to prepare a simple breakfast for a non-Turkish friend of mine (if I say foreigner now, it will be marginalizing  😊  ). I had bake a cake the night before and I took it to him as an extra. Breakfast prepared by my cousin My friend has a house with a sea view and a nice kitchen, we decided to sit at his house because it was quieter and more beautiful. He made a gesture and bought us some tea leaves to brew. I had brought the “sucuk” that I wanted to taste, which I had recently vacuum-packe...

  Before moving to Lisbon, there was actually a clause in my work agreement called “free Portuguese course.” Of course I got excited… new language, new life, why not 😊 Then I arrived… and months passed. Despite all my effort, I never got access to that course. The company promised it, but never really made it happen. After a few emails back and forth, I found out that the government actually offers free courses. So in August 2023, I secured my spot for a course starting in September at a public school. They only charge a very small fee, something like paperwork cost. It’s actually similar to the free language courses offered in Türkiye for foreigners. Until then, from June 2022 to the following year, I managed my life in the city with my B2 Spanish and English. And honestly, Portuguese people speak really good English. Almost everywhere, you can find someone who speaks it. Anyway… time came. I got my AULA 1 books from a bookstore and started classes. And let me tell you… Por...

I have been working in Türkiye since 2008. I never want to disparage my country, but whether you call it female colleagues who dig your pit, bosses who state that they are feminists but do not stand by you when a situation arises, or managers who train you and then intimidated by you.... I finally made this decision in early 2022 by experiencing all these bitter realities of life in one country. Let me also state that if my last workplace reads here, I had no problem with it 😊 Here is my site that I sell some photos that I took for your home decoration  : Viki Abroad Lisbon tram I started looking for a job abroad with the moral support of a dear foreign friend living in Türkiye and my searching didn't take long. I was going to start everything from scratch, I landed to Lisbon for a job I had never done before, unrelated to my profession. I was chosen because maybe I had good customer relations and I was good with computers, maybe sometimes I thought I was really unqualif...