Lisboa

13 hours stopover in Lisbon is enough time to see the city. The subway easily connects the airport with the city and from the first time we laid eyes on the little alleys of the old town we fell in love with the atmosphere. And although we expected to be freezing after the hot weather in Ghana the rain that was forecast didn’t materialize and it was warm enough for us to walk around in T-Shirts.
The old quarter of Alfama has these tiny alleyways that wind up and down the hills that Lisbon is build on there are many small shops and heaps of motives for our cameras.
In the old harbour the circle closed as it was the Portuguese that opened the first trading posts in Ghana breaking the Arab monopoly on the gold trade that until then went through Mali and Morocco (via Timbuktu and the Sahara).