We got up early to have breakfast on the train….(one of the perks of having 1st class on a train…not that we had a choice between 1st and 2nd). It’s hard to pour coffee on a train. It really takes some talent.

We arrived at 8am, made a friend from Canada and we all jumped on a bus headed to the center of town.

Our hotel/pensione is clean  we checked in took a nap (sleeping on trains is more like napping on a train), then went to explore. Of course we found the steepest street in the city to walk up. But we weren’t even out of breath because we are hard core walkers now (heehee).

We found the Institute of Port Wine and since Portugal basically started port wine, we had to try some. We sampled from an early port wine, a 10 year, a 30 year and a 40 year old port wine. I have to say with age it tastes better…so the 30 and 40 year old win. We also tried a white. Port wine is pretty strong and well Peter and I basically stumbled down the steep hill. We saw a store that had port wine from the 1800’s for sale and it cost around 1,000 Euros.

Portugal doesn’t celebrate Halloween as the US does so we decided to find something going on for Halloween and we heard about a death metal show called Moonspell that was doing a “special” Halloween show, so we thought what the hell…I like death metal and hey that’s the only thing Halloweeny going on in the City so we bought tickets.

We went back to the hotel to get ready and drank some of our Spanish vino. I made my eyes real scary and wore the snake necklace Peter bought me and off we went to eat dinner. Peter actually ordered a whole pizza to himself and ate most of it. I was shocked…his food habits are changing  We ate at an outside restaurant so we could people watch and the only costumes I saw were people who were going to the death metal show and few generic costumes like a ghost, and a witch (and I really do mean one person).

Ok…so the death metal show was interesting…there were two opening bands and the first one made fun of Bush and political events. My fav. Song of his was…“George Bush, Bin Laden, One Love, One Family.” That was basically the song.
In between bands we saw a dude whip it out and piss right on the floor where he was standing…that was a new one and that I remember more than anything else….hahahahah.
Moonspell had quite the entrance. There were chicks belly dancing and the singer came out with a big cow head staff and some demon type of visuals in the background. We couldn’t understand anything he said or sang about except one where he talked about the devil. It was an interesting night to say the least, but I see Halloween is catching on over here….hopefully in a few years it will be huge…but I still had a great night. A death metal show on Halloween in Portugal….you can’t beat that (heehee).