A piece of Night life in Lisbon

 

 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, giving the street its name.

We sat down at any restaurant on the street and I suggested to my new roommate to look at the menu, but to try the Portuguese traditional "Bacalhau" in honor of today. I ordered a kind of sea bream, which they call gold, on the grill. The original name of the fish is "Dourada". While waiting for our food, we ordered a bottle of green wine.

I don't really understand the specialty and region of green wine, but it matches perfectly with the fish and shrimp. Green wine is made from the skins, stems and seeds of the grapes, so it has stronger aromas and flavors. My favorite wines in Portugal are usually the red ones, in Porto and the Douro region 😊

In the meantime, a French friend of mine stopped by and we enjoyed our fish and sipped wine while he drank his 2 beers. Anyway, everyone get along with each other and it was a nice dinner time.

I was relieved when my friend said she liked the food. It was as if I had made the food and I was expecting criticism 😊.  We decided to pack up, we said let's go, what should we do, where should we take this girl, it was actually 21.30. We walked around Bairo Alto for a while, at least 30 minutes. I taught her where there are Turkish döner restaurants in case she gets hungry after drinking alcohol at night :D Actually I'm beating myself up for nothing, I say I didn't learn any place, but I learned the touristic places. I'm wandering the streets thinking that I should learn the local restaurants in case someone visits me...

I have a favorite place "Ache Latino" and my feet brought us there. A French, a German and a Turk, we went to a Latin bar 😊 I didn't feel like dancing much, but I still danced all night in the most Latin way I could be. Of course, I sipped my favorite drink, Pina Colada, in my glass as a look of pineapple . The new girl sipped her margarita in her cute way 😊

In Bairo Alto, the venues are never full or empty. People come and go, there is a constant circulation, this is the same for every venue. We preferred to sit, but at the same time we were dancing in the back. I know that I normally walk and dance from place to place, but I didn't want to exhaust the new girl on the first day 😊

After ending the night by drinking rum from shot glasses which were like skulls, we headed to the center of Lisbon. The streets are not empty, there are so many people. I’d like to mention that the possibility of anything happening to you is really low here.

 Since the trains are always either under renovation or on strike, I think it was 2 am when we get home, first we took the night shuttle bus to the stop where we supposed to take the train and then get in the train home. Normally it would take 25 minutes by train from my house to Lisbon, but as you know night life, that's how delays happen.

We reached home safely, anyway we both found our beds and fell asleep after  a Saturday night in Lisbon.

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I will be waiting for your questions about Lisbon night life 😊 I would like to give an idea up to the point I experienced.

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