June 11, 2009
Just when I was starting to understand some Spanish we go to Portugal. We got on a bus that took us from Merida, Spain to Lisbon, Portugal. Not once crossing the border between the two countries did we have to show our passport because in the European Union you are free to move between countries unlike earlier where we would have had to go through a customs checkpoint. We then arrived in Lisbon and I once again was totally without any clue as to communicating. The one nice part was that more people in Portugal spoke English than in Spain. We came into the Santiago Calatrava designed Estacao de Oriente.