An evening walk

 One of the joys of staying close to downtown in a city is that you can easily walk around the middle of the city at all times a day. An evening stroll just before dinner is a great time to observe the population, the tourists etc. In downtown Lisbon there are a vast number of restaurants, most of them with their premises permanently outside on the wide pavements. Many different menus claim to be Portuguese but others, Indian or mixture of Indian and Portuguese. There is also fine dining. It is interesting to see the throngs of different people that are wandering around in the centre of Lisbon at about 7 o’clock at night.

 I’ve been eating fairly simply. For dessert one evening I had a Portuguese special cream tart. The people who live in Lisbon and work downtown seem to be a mixture of black Africans and people with Indian appearance but as well there are brown people from Brazil, who are have different facial forms.