Day Trip To Cascais

June 20, 2018

We’re going to Cascais today, a coastal /beach town 35 kilometers away and less than an hour train ride from Lisbon. It’s a small fishing village during the medieval times. Since the King has a palace there (Citadel Palace) other wealthy Portuguese nobility built vacation homes / summer retreat there too which drove up the prices of real estate.

We had breakfast early because our call time’s an hour earlier than usual.
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Lounging at the lobby while waiting for our other tour mates.
Paul and Carla Chuatico
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Lina is with Mercury Drug while Salve runs her own insurance agency.
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Francis, _____, Bong
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Ageless beauties: former Miss Maja Philippines Cynthia Nakpil, with Susan Dimacali, a Miss Philippines caliber beauty.
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Beauties inside and out
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The proud and lucky husband Mon, president of FPG Insurance, Inc.
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We haven’t left, yet I was already feeling sleepy.
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We walked for a few minutes from Corpo Santo to the train station.
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I wanted to buy yogurt but the cutie bugsy was still closed.
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Our tour guide Margarita bought us train tickets
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We’ve been to prettier places in the past few days and yet we chose this inconspicuous train station as the back drop of our first group photo. Smile.
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I actually didn’t know beforehand where we were going.

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I just found out when we were about to board the train.
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Waiting for the right train.
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Best place to have group posterity photos —- train station.
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We found the graffiti around madungis. We couldn’t understand why the government tolerated it.
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Our first destination was the coin toilet just outside the train station building. There were two stalls and a woman was standing by to assist customers and of course to deter those who wanted to use it for free.
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We were joking around while waiting for our respective turns. I went ahead of Edmund. A—-“Tart, pwede pala tayo sabay”.
E—–“Baka kung ano’ng mangyari sa atin dyan”.

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My sister found the right hat for the amount she was only willing to pay. Euro 5 same as what I paid for mine. Oyen’s was a lot more expensive, Euro 18.
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Having a hat was more or less a must. With their kind of heat, you might as well put a lot of oil or hair creme on your head while walking around, para ka na ring nagpa hot oil.
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Edmund bought his complete head to toe ensemble the day before. Meron pala sya kapareho ng taste.
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to be continued

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