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Portugal Episode 8: Tuk Around and Find Out

May 17, 2026 • Brandon and Abby • Season 2 • Episode 8

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Jeronimos Monastery: https://www.historyhit.com/locations/jeronimos-monastery/

Sintra: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g189164-Sintra_Sintra_Municipality_Lisbon_District_Central_Portugal-Vacations.html

Palace of Pena: https://www.parquesdesintra.pt/en/parks-monuments/park-and-national-palace-of-pena/history/

Quinta da Regaleira: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g189164-d484394-Reviews-Quinta_da_Regaleira-Sintra_Sintra_Municipality_Lisbon_District_Central_Portugal.html

Castelo dos Mouros: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g189164-d195786-Reviews-Castelo_dos_Mouros-Sintra_Sintra_Municipality_Lisbon_District_Central_Portugal.html

rissóis de camarão: https://leitesculinaria.com/7606/recipes-portuguese-shrimp-turnovers.html

Pasteis de Belem: https://pasteisdebelem.pt/en/

Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1208051491307375884?guests=1&adults=1&s=67&unique_share_id=6446c406-ba9f-41a5-8889-d86cb13a21aa

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hi, I'm Brandon.

SPEAKER_00 0:02

And I'm Abby.

SPEAKER_01 0:03

And this is Travel Trauma, a podcast dedicated to sharing traumatic travel experiences we've encountered during our trips.

SPEAKER_00 0:09

Short disclaimer, our opinions and experiences are our own. This podcast is not meant to throw shade on any travel tour or location we have visited. So take everything with a grain of salt.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

We're gonna we always say this, and you know what? We're gonna continue to say it. We are the issue, you guys. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:26

And we just bring the trauma with us wherever we go.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

You know what? It's kind of fun though.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

That's fine.

SPEAKER_01 0:33

Portugal's been a long season. Or is this a season, or are we gonna do like a whole year?

SPEAKER_00 0:38

This is a season. We've been saying a season. Okay, so we gotta keep it that way.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

The next grip is gonna be season three. Oh my gosh, you guys. That's crazy. Also, by the way, this is our last episode for Portugal.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

Yeah, this is the finale.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

I feel like it's gonna be a sad finale for them. Oh no, it's pretty good. But we left you guys yesterday or the previous episode, whereas Guy had gone off on her own food adventure and ate like own special food tour curated by her. I don't know how she ate all that food after we ate a full meal.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

So stuffed. Like with because she hadn't mentioned it. I was like, if I have another thing to eat right now, I will throw up. And then she proceeded to have like five more meals.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

The the two gelatos is what got me.

unknown 1:26

Two gelatos.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

I mean, dessert stomach's different, but even that was a lot.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

I'm really happy for her though that she got all the food that she wanted to try.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Yeah, like I'm jealous at this point. I'm like, damn, maybe I should have just powered through.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

We should have. We should have. But I mean, we got all our stuff like packed and ready, so that's good. But for this episode, you guys, we're gonna discuss turning in the car at the airport in the mess that that was. The Madeira airport itself, because it's outside. Like, yeah, and the shrimp pockets make a re re Surgeons, and we're gonna discuss those again. Geronimo's monastery, Sintra, because we went back to Sintra, and the tile again. Tiles 2.0, the Tuck Tuck Ride, Palace of Penna, the picture restaurant, and then wine and cheese on a balcony.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

So that's that's what we got for you today. So we're gonna just go right into it. So the previous night before, like we said, Skye was out doing her food adventure, and then we were packing everything. The whole entire time, I was trying to figure out how to turn in the car because there weren't any instructions that I could find. They probably emailed it to me. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say anything bad about it because they probably did at the beginning. I could not find it in my email. So I'm like texting the man, like, hey guy, hey my man, how do you want us to turn this car in? Because I can't find the instructions and I need to be able to give you back, you know, your viewpoint. Yeah, and he's just like, just take it to the airport and put it somewhere essentially. I was just like, Can you be a little more detailed?

SPEAKER_00 3:14

Can I get that in more formal writing? So when you come back wanting more money, I can show this.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

Because he, because in the back of my mind, I was like, okay, we didn't actually get into the car at the airport, we went in a car to a dirt road to pick up the car, and that was not close to the airport, like that wasn't a walkable thing, it was not. So I was like, Does he want us to return it to the dirt road? Because that doesn't make any sense, and then this was over like a span of like two hours, too, by the way. So keep that in mind. He kept on telling me that he sent me pictures or like the information, and I'm just like, okay, no one's.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

Because he just kept being like, Oh, you should have them, you should have them. It's like, clearly, you don't have them, just resend them. Like, how hard could that be? Like, you should have them somewhat readily available, like just resend them.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

I was trying to be so dice about it, too, because I was like, Okay, whatever. But like each time I kept on asking because it would be like 30 minutes to 40 minutes or 45 minutes between the messages, and every single time I was just like, No, you have not sent them to me. This is why I'm asking you again.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Our flight was early in the morning, so it's not like we could figure this out like tomorrow morning. Like, we needed to have the instructions.

SPEAKER_01 4:35

Okay, all things considered, I never received the instructions.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

So we get up in the morning and we take the car to the airport and we just leave it in a parking lot. Like a random parking lot.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

We were to I was like, Are you sure if this is okay? You're like, it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

So we just abandoned the car at the airport.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

Left the keys like in the car. Like, that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

I just I texted him and I was just like, We left it here. Hope you find it.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

No, I didn't say that, did I?

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Oh wait, I may have actually said that.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

But we have sending the instructions. It was like, we we're leaving, so I don't know what you want us to do with your car.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

I did not get charged anything, so apparently they found it.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

They've had the vehicle somewhere, could have been like a lot worse. Like, yeah, don't don't just like abandon rental cars because that was like the best case. That was the best case. But like I've heard like stories where even when people returned them, but it wasn't scanned in properly, like getting charged like thousands of dollars for like a rental car.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

So don't do what I did, but I did take pictures.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

It did end up working out, but not the best plan.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

But at the same time, what was I supposed to do?

SPEAKER_00 5:46

Yeah, like we had to go.

SPEAKER_03 5:48

We had to go. No, we had to go. We can't take the car on the plane.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

Yeah, so it is what it is, but that could have ended a lot worse.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Anyway, that was the beginning of our morning. And abandoned our resident. Brought to a really good start. So we get through security at Madeira Airport, and we're walking down this hallway, and then all of a sudden it's like we're just outside, or you can walk outside, and it was just like this feels illegal. It did feel illegal, didn't it?

SPEAKER_00 6:21

I feel like uh the wall was like pretty big. I had never sitting area outside. I feel like I don't know if I have. I feel like I've maybe been to an airport before where you could go outside, but it was still really cool. It was really cool because like up close and personal with airplanes.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Nothing traumatic there. We just wanted to throw that in because that was really interesting.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

Because we just stood there and looked at the planes. Weather was nicer though, because remember it was like kind of drizzling and it was also dark, but we still wanted to stand outside, so we just like stood outside for a while.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

We stood outside for a long time. Then we went inside and got a snack.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

Yeah, more shrimp pockets.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

Okay, so the shrimp pockets have come up a couple times, I think, on previous episodes.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

I love them.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

They were so good. So we finally looked up the name of them. It's I don't know how to say this. I you are gonna have to do this.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

I don't I don't know how to say it. My best guess is going to be Rhizosis de Camaria.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

Rhizosis de Camaria?

SPEAKER_00 7:26

Something like that. But it's a pocket of shrimp. It's yes, but today, so the one I had before was not heated up, like it was still good, but like could have been better. At the airport, they heated it up. It was so good.

SPEAKER_01 7:41

It was so good. I got two, it was so good, but we had to throw that in too because we've talked about it multiple times. I'm gonna link a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

I needed to let you know that heated up was better.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

Yes, and there's a link to the recipe.

SPEAKER_00 7:52

So if you want to make them at home in this cleaner, we have not tried to make them at home, so do at your own risk.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

So at the airport, like Skye actually is going home this day. So from Madeira straight to wherever she's going, or back to the Lisbon Airport, and she's gonna fly out from there. We get back to Lisbon Airport, and we didn't realize that we weren't gonna be able to say goodbye to Sky.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

Yeah, so she just kind of like disappeared in that.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

She told us that she was going through like her customs thing, and we probably would be able to see each other at the end of it or something.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

Yeah, we didn't.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

So keep that in mind. If somebody you want to say goodbye to at the Lisbon Airport before they go on another flight, I feel like we had enough after you get off the flight.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

I feel like that's like a known thing. Because if you're going It makes sense because we were leaving the airport and she was going the way if you had a connecting flight. So we should have known better because she wouldn't have left the airport if she had a connecting flight. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

So anyway, Appy didn't get to say goodbye, and I don't think you've seen her since.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

Nope, literally, I haven't seen her since Portugal. Probably the next time I will see her will be in Croatia. The thing is, is we don't live that far apart.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

I've seen Skye. I've gone down to see her a couple times. I was just a bitch ass friend who doesn't want to go down there.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

I only see the thing is I go to Chattanooga in Atlanta all the time. What is your issue? It just never comes up. Um text Sky next time. Okay. Um but yeah, or she's just my friend that I only see out of the country.

SPEAKER_01 9:40

Anyway, you guys, that was a little bit of the airport portion of it. Now we're we're back in Lisbon, and honestly, my idea for this day was to go pool hopping because we enjoyed it so much.

SPEAKER_00 9:51

A chill day.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

We were we were chilling.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

I don't think we're capable of having a chill day. And this is just like in all aspects of my life. If I say I'm going out to do something chill, it's never chill.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

That was literally my intention this day. Like, seriously. I was like, okay, we could do another pool day, it's the day before our flights. Let's just not, let's just not. Let's just go to the Lisbon pools like we did in Madeira and just chill out.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

So Lisbon doesn't have pools like the Madeiraan pools that we went to.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

Yeah, which makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

So that that idea got shot down immediately.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

Yeah. Well, there was nowhere to go. We're like, no, it's a dumb idea. It was like, where? No.

SPEAKER_01 10:33

So our thought process was like, okay, let's go to the monastery. So we made the backup plan to go to the monastery, but we were gonna stop at the Airbnb first.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

We went to the monastery like the first day that me and Emily got there. We didn't go inside, like we just saw the outside.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

But today, going inside, yes, and it was early enough to be able to do this, which shout out to our Airbnb for a couple things, actually.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

First thing is the hosts were super cool. Like they had been texting me the night prior, trying to get make sure that like I knew all the information, and then in the morning they were just like, Hey, if you want to check in early, go ahead. Yeah, and like it was what nine, ten in the morning that they let us check in.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

Really early in the morning because we had our luggage with us and we didn't know if we were checking in yet, so we had gone to go get like a snack.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

A plus on their part. They were just like, Hey, we don't have any people, just go in when you want to. And we only had to wait like 30 minutes after getting back into Lisbon from the airport, and then we walked to our Airbnb and it was perfect.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

But we maximized our 30-minute time. We were like, Let's get more pastel than this. And we went to like one of the more like famous places to get them, which I don't do.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

Pastise de Belim? Yeah, if I'm saying that correctly. They were good.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

They were good. So we went there and we got them, and like it was great. You could like add cinnamon to these ones. Like, I had a little cinnamon packet, and you could just like put it on. It was good.

SPEAKER_01 11:59

Um, and then we walked to the Airbnb.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

We walked to the Airbnb and they got more. They had gotten us as like a welcome thing, the pastel donadas from this place, and Coke Zero, and like some other little snacks.

SPEAKER_01 12:13

I was just like, oh my gosh, this Airbnb is so many. Okay, but here's the one thing, you guys. Wait, another good thing about the Airbnb: the air conditioning.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

Yeah, they were cranking it too. Like it was an icebox in there. It was it was amazing.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

I thought I'd got and died and gone to heaven. Like I was so happy.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

This isn't like the Airbnb's fault. I think this is just Portugal in general, but the stairs.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

Oh my gosh, the stairs.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

So we already like, I mean, just Europe in general, like you're gonna have to walk upstairs.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

Um, uh and the staircase was really small, and mind you, I have like a checked suitcase. My suitcase is pretty large. Finally, get to the top, and our Airbnb is like the very top, like the last like residence in this building. The last part to get into the Airbnb, I wouldn't even call them stairs at this point. It was a ladder, like it wasn't, it was crazy. Like, I had Emily had to help me, like, she went up the little ladder thing, and like I was pushing the suitcase from the bottom. You know what it reminds me of?

SPEAKER_01 13:18

You you know what it reminds me of? Have you ever like um been in a house where it has like the attic and you have to pull down the staircase? That's what it was like, it was like the ladder began to it.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

That was crazy. I remember just like turning the corner of the staircase and seeing that, and I was just like, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

It didn't end though. Like once we got into the Airbnb, like my room was up another floor, and it was even steeper.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

Seeing that, I was like, Yeah, I'm not bringing my suitcase up there, so me and Emily will take the room down here.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

I was kind of afraid of like falling in the night.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

I was like, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

Yeah, but all in all, but it was a great host, yeah, great conditioning, very stylish, wonderful balcony, but we'll get to that later on. A plus. So we just chilled chilled there, and like you said, we did and we showered.

SPEAKER_00 14:09

Yeah, we like made ourselves more perceptible, showered to put on more sunscreen.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Yeah, but I think we literally sat there for like a good 30 to 45 minutes just in the air conditioning because you don't realize your body needs it until it has it.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

And I needed it. I think I knew I needed air conditioning the whole trip, but it just wasn't an option, so I chose not to think about it. Bring deodorant. We're like a portable fan.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

But we set the reel a little bit, and like we said, like the pool idea was not gonna happen, so we decided let's go to the monastery. And we were able to get the tickets online, so we skipped it, yeah, skipped that. Uh getting the tickets. The line was still long.

SPEAKER_00 14:55

The line was so long. We still probably waited like what, like 40 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Yeah, we committed, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

And it was out in the sun, like we knew exactly what we were getting into, and it definitely could have been worse. But that line, like in the direct sunlight, is rough. It was just reapplying more sunscreen. Oh, all the haters out there about the amount of times I apply sunscreen.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

There were people like selling umbrellas, and I was very tempted to buy one.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

Look, people make fun of me for the amount of sunscreen that I put on, but you know what?

SPEAKER_01 15:23

I'm white, I'm super white, and I only get sunburned, so tasty, like an eggshell white.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

It's like a paint color, like it's white or red. Like, I'm not out here trying to tan, okay? That just doesn't happen for me.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

No, it's like all the tanning goes to sky. She's like so dark in the summer. I don't understand.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

As soon as the sun comes out, I'm just like drenching myself in sunscreen.

SPEAKER_03 15:52

Same.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

Or I put on like a long sleeve shirt. I'll wear long sleeve shirts in the summertime, and people are like, Why are you wearing a long sleeve shirt? And I'm like, look, I would rather be hot than get sunburned. So here we are.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Anyway, we're waiting in this line, and we're committed, and it's burning up. But we finally get into the monastery, and I'm gonna give you guys a little bit of history on it. So here we go. Always check my facts though, but I did link a link to the history. Anyway, it was built in 1502. King Manuel had it built in honor of a successful voyage to India celebrating Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. Vasco da Gama. That's a long there we go. That's a strong name. It took a hundred years to build.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

I feel like just it if this was only built, I'm sure it was built for other reasons too, but just to honor that voyage. That's a long time to build this building. Isn't that crazy? We probably did a lot more voyages in the time that it took them to build this building.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

It's it's with it's withstand the uh the test of the city. So they did they did a good job. Well, we knew we need those engineers back this in this day and age.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

No, I agree. The architecture now like low-key sucks. It's all just like boxes.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

It's sad.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

Where are the fun buildings? Like, there's no more fun buildings unless they're old.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

I want the gothic style back. Yeah, I want the arches and the gargoyles and all the other fixings on a building.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

Although that's all the other fixings on a building.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

Anyway, monks were monks lived in here, obviously, because it's a monastery, but they were from the Order of St. Jerome. The order, the religious order, was dissolved in 1833, and the monastery was actually abandoned. And then it essentially became like a crypt and burial ground for the members of the royal family, the Portuguese royal family. Now it's pretty much a museum and representation of Portuguese architecture and history.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Like, you guys need to go and visit it. It's very pretty, really beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

Yeah, I really liked the hallways that were outside with like the big ceilings. Like, do you remember those? Like, I don't know, like the big one cathedral, like ceilings. I don't know. I'd like that.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

Also, do you remember the rooms of tiles? Yeah. Like all the pictures and like the faces on the tiles.

SPEAKER_00 18:19

There was like definitely like history going on, but honestly, all I just remember was the tiles had funny faces on them.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

They were hilarious. They were the sassiest looking faces, too. I have never seen such.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

They they were funny.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

I really wanted to like chip off one of those tiles and keep it for me, but then I guess that would be for Audapon.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

Probably.

SPEAKER_01 18:39

So no.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Well, you just had pictures. I don't know. You text me, you use some of those pictures of those faces as like stickers for like reactions to my messages. I have so many. You just made your own like emoji stuff.

SPEAKER_01 18:54

I love it. I love it so much. But yeah, that was that was pretty much it for the monastery. Yeah. You should definitely go there. Just go there earlier than us because you just don't want to be in the street.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

We still went pretty early, like this day. But yeah, I would definitely like buy your tickets online and just go. And and do it, yeah. Definitely close to when they open.

SPEAKER_01 19:13

I think during it in the line we purchased we made the next decision in the line while we were waiting to go into the monastery, and that decision was to go back to Cintra.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

To go to the Palace of Pinna because it was actually open that day.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

Because the wildfires in Portugal, I guess, were they were still going on, but they didn't close the Palace of Pinnah. They opened them.

SPEAKER_00 19:35

I guess there wasn't. I think they closed them before because there was a lot of smoke. Yes. I think the smoke had like died down. I don't think the the fires were completely gone, but they opened the grounds back up because it wasn't as smoky anymore.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

So immediately right when we pop out of this monastery, we get a grab.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

Yeah, we get a grab and go back. No, a bolt. Bolt. We get a bolt and uh bolt back to Cintra. Yeah. Back to Sintra.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

What do we do in Cintra?

SPEAKER_00 20:03

We We did a lot of walking.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

We did a lot of walking in Cintra again. It was just pretty to walk around.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Yeah, we went and got more tiles.

unknown 20:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

From the man.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

The guy.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

And he tried to scam us again.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

I love this because like Ibly's just like, I want to go get some tiles now. And that seemed to be like the most unique ones that we've seen so far for sale.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

There's like a lot of options in that one store, too, because it was just only tiles.

SPEAKER_01 20:33

And it was just like, I know what we're gonna get into, but we're not gonna let him scam us. And he definitely tried again. It was just like hello, English for a minute, and then like all of a sudden he was like mute.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

Or just didn't know how to do basic math.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

But she did not get scammed, she got the tiles, and I think I got another tile there, too.

SPEAKER_00 20:54

You definitely did. You got a tile like anytime we stopped at a store, you got tiles.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

I remember this one. I actually really love this tile because it's a picture of sardines.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

It's so pretty.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

It's so pretty. I did not get scammed. Yeah, I was very close to buying one of his tiles that he definitely painted.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

I kind of wish that we did buy one because they were so cheap, and I think just for the story, we did not do it though. Uh yeah, but we just we really just walked around Sintra for a while because everything was just really pretty and picturesque.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

So we were like, yes, we had to have gotten food somewhere, but it must have not been very like I don't remember it, memorable. But I do remember being exhausted about to start the palace pinna, which I don't know what we were thinking.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

I think we couldn't get in into a certain time, or like we had tickets for a certain time.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

That's right, it's on time slots.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Yeah, so I think that's why we had been just walking around because we didn't We had to kill some time. Yeah, we had to wait for our time slot.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

Okay, here's the thing, you guys. Like, we get to the point where you can either start walking up to The palace pinnap be driven up by a tuck tuck bolt or a tuk-tuck. And Emily was standing there, and she's like, We when she had been to Portugal before, she had been to the Palace Pinnah, but they had did the hike up.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

And she and she was just like, Guys, we don't want to do the hike up. Because it's not like a short walk, like it's like what, like a mile.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

She was she was being for real. Like, she she was telling, hey, it's it's a pretty hard hike, but like she was not emphasizing how I wouldn't call it a hike though, because it's just it's it's a path, it's a path.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

People like the majority of people were just walking up. Um, but like it is uphill and it's it's like a mile, I think. And it's uphill.

SPEAKER_01 22:43

Um, so we saw the tuk-tucks, and we were like, okay, let's just do the tuk-tucks, which they look like a scam, to be quite honest with you.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

I don't care. Take my money.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

We were so tired from walking, and we had the monastery. We had gone off a plane, gone to our Airbnb, done a monastery, walk around Sintra, almost got scammed at tile again. And we're about to do another palace. So we're tired. We're tired, and we're just like this guy kept walked up to us, breadlocks all over.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

He was such a vibe. Like it's just like, you guys wanna you wanna ride?

SPEAKER_01 23:16

Like, you know, yes. It was it was off-putting to me because I was just like, Oh, this is definitely a scam. But then I was just standing there and like exhausted, and I was just like, I don't care.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

It just reminded me of like anytime you're in like a big city, people are trying to like lure you into like you know, like their car, like their taxi or like their thing. Like, I don't know, it seemed pretty aggressive, but like I was like, I also do not want to walk up there, so yeah, let's get in your tiny little bike thing.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

We hacked with him a little bit, didn't we? He said it would be like $20, $30 or something.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

I don't think we have I think we asked him how much it was, yeah, and then we had told him that we were gonna do it up and then we were gonna do it back down, but we didn't have enough cash for like both ways.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

No, we said we were gonna do it up, and we he gave me his number at the end just in case we wanted it on the way back down because we thought maybe we could do it on the way back down with the bus.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

Oh, yes, and I don't think we haggled with him over the cost though.

SPEAKER_01 24:19

Yeah, but we did not tell him until like the very end that we didn't have the money to pay it up.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

No, we paid him on the way up. It was on the way down we didn't have enough cash.

SPEAKER_02 24:29

Yeah, but we didn't tell him on the way down until we got to the bottom of it. But we just like we gotta stop it at APM. Can you actually pull over right here?

SPEAKER_01 24:38

So we can actually pay you. So we were like almost kind of scamming him.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

You know what? Take one an hour.

SPEAKER_01 24:43

Okay, but anyway, this man walks up, we pay him. It was only like $20, and what a ride, what a ride. But we were getting into the back of this tuck tuck, and I've never been in one before. And we get in the back, and then all of a sudden he's off to the side about to get in two, and he just rips a blunt, like he feels it. So high he murders a blunt, and then it's just like, well, that's something.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

And then he gets it and he cranks up the music and then just like floors it full, full talking to us. Like, he's like, Oh, like where you guys from, like, well, all right, how's it going? But then just like going around, like any other thing in front of any other tuftuck, any other car, he was swerving around them. It was a rave, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

It was like a room out of the way, and he had rave music in here going too. It was like we were in the middle of like some underground club on the way, and like he was racing people, he did a wheelie. Yeah, he did a wheelie.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

We were like, Oh my god, we're good, guys. My adrenaline was I was like holding on to the sides, but like we made it and it was fine.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

It was fun, and I think we got off of that and was like immediately like, yeah, we're definitely taking that back down.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

Yeah, 100%. We don't want to take the bus back down. That's lame.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

So lame. Oh my gosh. Anyway, we get to the palace, and it's big.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Yeah, it's also really pretty.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

I it was it's beautiful. You guys do actually need to do it.

SPEAKER_00 26:25

It was very crowded. So our time slot, I think, was one of the last time slots.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

I think it was five until six or something like that. It was one of the last ones, and trust me, it was it was crowded.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

There was a lot of people up there. I'm sure if you go in the morning, it wouldn't be as crowded.

SPEAKER_01 26:41

You can walk the grounds. We got up there a little early before our like time slot, walk the grounds, and honestly, I enjoyed that more than actual yeah, than the actual thing because like it felt like we were being critted like cattle through that palace.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Yeah, and you couldn't really like stop to take it in anything. Yeah, because there was just a lot of people, they were moving you along. It was so cool though.

SPEAKER_01 27:02

It was very cool. I took pictures of the placards because I was just like, I I wanted to know some of the history, and I honestly don't know any of the history history to be able to tell you. Other than I think the one thing that stuck in my mind is like they left the dining room with all the food on the table because they had to leave the castle, like whoever was occupying it, I think one of the kings had to leave immediately before like these like people came up to murder them. I remember that portion of it. So they left it like it was being eaten in the middle of like dinner because they had to evacuate it so quickly. But there is a lot of history. Once again, just go earlier. So maybe there's not like 10 billion people and you feel like you're about to like saw a lot of influencers in the wild. No, I did not. Did you really?

SPEAKER_00 27:51

Yes, we were out at the before going in or after we got out. Like, you know, when you walk up, they had like those like partial towers. Yes, you know, there was a lot of people like taking pictures up on there, but there was this like one lady, she's taking so many pictures, she was making somebody, I don't know who it was, but yeah. Influencers in the wild, love to see it.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

Palace of Bina was not that traumatic. The tuk-tuk ride out there was interesting, but the palace itself was just it was just pretty, it was just beautiful to look at. It reminds me of like seeing like one of those old houses where you just like you just appreciate the uh the amount of work that went into it, kind of like the buildmore.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

I've never been there, but yes.

SPEAKER_01 28:35

Oh, you've never been there. Um, a very old, well-built, very well-maintained piece of property that just doesn't have the style that our buildings have now, and it's just very it's something you just appreciate. Yeah, but it was a lot of people. I was very overstimulated by the end of this.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

But then we got back on the duck. It's just like we're not the overstimulated anymore.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

We're getting back on the duck top, overstimulated all the way up, overstimulated at the palace pinner, and then overstimulated on the way down. It was a full rave again.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

But having his number was clutch because so we this was like one of the last time. So everybody's trying to get down, but we called him, and like people are also trying to get like grabs or Ubers or something up there, getting on the bus. And then here comes our tuk-tuk. He's like, Hey guys, and like we just get right on.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

It was actually at the perfect timing, too. He just like arrived there. I was just like, Oh, I was literally about to text you, but here he is.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

Was just cutting through everyone, like running people over to get to us. God, it was so crazy going down. Like, there wasn't a lot of other tuk-tucks up there at the time, and so people are like trying to get down, and like we have they were jealous of us because we just we just hopped right in and then and then we had to get him to stop to get money.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

Because we had literally nobody and didn't tell him until we got to the bottom, but he was chill about it.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

Yeah, he was like, Oh, okay. I mean, he kept like you you got out to go to the ATM, I think, and me and like Emily were collateral. No, I think um or did Emily got out. Emily got out. Somebody got out, but we were collateral because we were still in the dark.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Just like we're gonna be held hostage, so you know we're not gonna run away. Oh gosh, anyway, you guys, and you know what? It actually makes sense with what I'm about to say next because like all the bolts and Ubers, I think, were trying to get people down, and we were trying to get back to Lisbon at this point. And there was no bolt, none, there was only like one singular Uber, and we got it, we got it, but okay, here's the thing he was hovering on both the bolt app and on Uber.

SPEAKER_03 30:43

He wouldn't accept our fare until we got onto the Uber app because it was like three times more. But we said, fuck it, let's go back.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

We wanted to get back, and we we were done. And what time of the day did we get back to Lisbon? Was it like seven?

SPEAKER_00 30:57

I think so. It was pretty late because what it was like a 45-minute drive, I think.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

And I needed that drive.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Yeah, so I think it was around seven if the castle or if the palace thing closed at like 6-ish.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

6 30-ish, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

So I feel like it was seven after seven by the time we got back to Lisbon.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

And we did not go back to the Airbnb. We immediately got out the Uber and decided let's go to get a drink. Not a crazy drink, just like a hey, let's go get a drink. Yeah, and we sat there for like an hour waiting for the drinks.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

Yeah, but at this point, we then realized we were hungry.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

And but we we are so fried.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

We're dead at this point. And the bar that we were at to get a drink, like they had some food, but it wasn't like food, food, it was like snacks, and but here's the thing we didn't have the energy. We didn't have it in us to walk around to find like a good restaurant, so we got got we got got by one of those waving in picture places and to be fair, they didn't wave us in, but they just had- no, we did just go up and sit down, but they didn't wave us in, but they had pictures.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

Oh gosh, we broke our rule, and you know what? It was the worst meal we had.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

To be fair, it wasn't like bad though. It was not, it was not it was just our bar is so high at this point for food because of our rules. Uh, but I mean, like, it was still good, like we ate mostly everything. We made we ate most everything. We did the job because it was filling.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

But let's put it this way, we don't remember the name of the restaurant.

SPEAKER_00 32:30

And we wouldn't recommend going there. There's just so many other better options, but we just didn't have it in us to like search around for where we wanted to eat. It was like we just need food and we're going back to the Airbnb.

SPEAKER_01 32:45

And I loved our little Airbnb time when we ate food because we got some more salami and cheese.

SPEAKER_00 32:50

Yeah, we got and we got a bottle of wine, we got chocolate. I remember getting chocolate specifically.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

So we were having like a whole little mini meal on this like balcony at the Airbnb.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

It was just like a little, like a really small balcony too. And we were just sitting out there, chilling, of course, playing music.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

It was great. It was really relaxing. We ended the day actually on a chill note. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 33:11

Yeah, wow. It was a chill. I had like a bottle of wine. Because so me and Emily were drinking the wine, so I think she had some.

SPEAKER_01 33:20

I think had like a 40 of whatever beer.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

We're having a beer, but then Emily was like, Okay, I'm gonna shower and like go to bed, but we still had a lot of wine left, and I was the only one drinking it. And we can't take it with us, we can't take it with us with us, can't waste it. So just getting drunk on the patio.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

Hey, but it was good, it was fun. Oh gosh, you guys. Wow, Portugal wound up being like a long, very intense trip. It like we get to the airport in the morning, and we don't talk to each other.

SPEAKER_00 33:51

No, Emily left. I think her flight was first, so like we got to the airport and she like left and like went through yes, and we just sat at a cafe and didn't talk to each other. Didn't say at all.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

I don't even think we played on our phones.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

We just I was just sitting there sat there. Yeah, I was just like people watching.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

Which it makes complete sense now, thinking about all the episodes that we've done for Portugal, because at first I was just like that was the chillest trip ever, but now it makes sense why we were just sitting in silence at the airport.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

And then you then you went to go get you went to go get like wipes or something to like clean your phone screen.

SPEAKER_01 34:24

And I'm sorry, you guys, I was just so sunscreeny still, so sweaty, and my my phone, I just wanted something clean.

SPEAKER_00 34:33

He didn't get like sanitizer wipes or whatever, like he got like women's hygiene, like sanitary wipes.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Listen, I was so tired.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

I didn't realize I didn't realize either. I didn't realize either I wasn't watching like what you were doing, but this, like, after we're back in the United States, I take them to work.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

I take these wipes to work because I'm just like, Well, I still have some wet wipes, why not just take them to work and use them there? And one of my coworkers was walking past me one day and looked at my desk and I was just like, What is that on your desk? Because it's in a pink packaging, and I was just like, It's just hand wipes. What do you do you want one? And she's like, I don't think those are hand wipes, and I was just like, What are you talking about? These are definitely hand wipes. So she takes a picture of it and puts it through chat GBT, and it's just like immediately was like, women's feminine hygiene wipes, yes.

SPEAKER_03 35:20

So I put the using feminine hygiene on your phone, like on my phone, on my hands, at work, like a wife, so it did the trick, but that's just the idea.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

You just want your pH levels to be green on your phone.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

But the airport in general was not anything crazy. We went through, got more pastel.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

Yeah, I remember being stressed because okay, so when you're first going through duty free, everyone was getting pastel danadas. Like it was there was a long line at duty free, but we didn't have like that much time before our flight. And I was just like, but I want to bring some home. I can't not bring any home. And so I was sad because we're like, no, we don't have time to wait in that line. But then there was a smaller little store that was near where we had to be, and I was able to bring some home.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

So, pro tip in the duty free.

SPEAKER_00 36:09

Don't wait in the long line.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

Don't wait in the long line, just go through a little bit along uh further into the airport next to your gate. You'll probably find them.

SPEAKER_00 36:16

Yeah, and it won't be like they don't have all the options that duty free has, but they had pastelanatos, and that's all I wanted.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

So the flight back was actually okay too. Like I did not take any melatonin and I didn't drink. I actually acted like a fucking normal flight person.

SPEAKER_00 36:31

Did you sleep?

SPEAKER_01 36:32

I just slept.

SPEAKER_00 36:33

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 36:35

Wow.

unknown 36:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

I'm assuming I slept because I really don't have any recollection of my flight.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

You're though. But that's that's it, you guys.

SPEAKER_00 36:44

That's it.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

That's it.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

That's the end. Portugal's over. Oh gosh. So sad.

SPEAKER_01 36:50

So we're going to take a few months off.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

Okay, not really.

SPEAKER_01 36:56

But not really. We're going to try and work on how to figure out the marketing because we just don't understand.

SPEAKER_00 37:02

We just don't know how to use social media appropriately.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

We're getting too old.

SPEAKER_00 37:06

Um, so yeah, we might try and figure that out. Uh, but we also might come back with some individual travel stories. Yes. Because we've both been other places, just not like with each other.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

Yeah. And I'm about to go to Italy on a solo trip myself.

SPEAKER_00 37:22

So that'll be content for sure. That's gonna be something. It's gonna be something.

SPEAKER_01 37:27

And Abby just got back from Hawaii.

SPEAKER_00 37:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

So, like, we do got some uh other things that we could talk about, but our primary next season season? It's gonna be Croatia. It's definitely gonna be Croatian, and it's just me, Abby, and Skye.

SPEAKER_00 37:40

So I have no buffer. What between me and Sky and you? Yes, you need a buffer? Probably. Every trip that I've been on with you and Skye, there's always been at least one other person.