Sintra Palace

On the 22nd our day started out with sightseeing while driving through an area with buildings built during the 18th century with mosaic paved streets. There was a lot of "street vendors" there if thats what you want to call them: people who walk around with scarves and sunglasses and any types of items pushing them on people as they walk by. There is actually quite a lot of that all around Lisbon and in Porto.

We then visited the town of Sintra, a town in the forest covered Mountain of Sintra. While there, we went to the Royal Palace, which was the royal residence of many Portuguese kings which was built over a former Moorish moske. It was very beautiful there and had intricate walls and ceilings in almost every room. The names of the rooms were named after the ceilings, such as the Swan Room because there were 23 swans painted on the ceiling representing the princess' age when she got married.

After that a few of us went to the pharmacy there because pharmacies in Portugal are very different than at home. Prescriptions are not necessary and many people go there and describe their symptoms to the pharmacists rather than going to a doctor. A lot of people have allergies here so they got allergy medicine and I got sleeping medicine because I've only been sleeping 3 hours a night (Half because I don't sleep and half because we're out).