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Streetcars from the bridge of the street above Following a fishwife up the street We are staying in Lisbon tonight. We got our Wagon-Lits express ticket this afternoon. we lost our money on the Seville reservation by waiting too long to cancel it. We are going to skip Andalusia and go back to...

Wednesday, July 22 Fishmarket post card from 1964 Dear D I went down here today (fish market picture) and took pictures of the fish and the fruit market. there were little donkeys pulling carts too. The women carry the produce on their heads in baskets. Whole families were here, with...

Queluz Versailles in the Pink Throne room African woman tile Venetian glass chandler Three graces plate in Queluz Queens bed with embroidered cover Music room Ballroom Dear Mother Yesterday we tried to rent a car, but they were all taken so we got a taxi for 340$ escudos for the...

Lisbon hospital out the bus window Hospital Scaffolding on a building Houses near Belem Vasco de Gama monument We saw the Tower of Belém The Torre de Belém was originally completely surrounded by water but over the centuries the Tagus river receded and a section has silted up...

(continuation of the same letter) We made it onto the train OK after frantic last minute search for a lost ticket. We found it, after several more conversations in French. We left at 10 and my niece was hard to keep awake til then, but she went right to sleep on my sister's lower bunk. At...