Foregoing Fado in Alfama

From the castle, we walked back down through the Alfama, "getting lost," as all the guidebooks recommend--but you can't really...just keep heading down and you'll get back to the 21st century. The Alfama is the old Moorish/sailor/now-working-family precinct, not destroyed in the 1755 earthquake, famous for its sights, sounds (Fado), etc. From the Alfama, we continued walking back into ground-zero downtown Lisbon, which was lighting up, as the sun went down.

The wall used to separate the Moorish section;

the steps down into the Alfama

Welcome to Alfama!

It's not exactly an undiscovered place; nice fountain though

Restaurant; typico, in our experience

A Fado bar, all set for the evening (it was

early, by Portuguese standards); after about

1 nano-second of soul-searching, we decided

to forgo the Fado; this is unforgiveable, I

know; but we like our folk-music light and

cheerful, even witty ("We're marching to

Pretoria!"), not serious and tragic; I would

have been thrown out for irreverence

Just like in Brazil, Jesus looks blessingly on

(a few miles down the river)