Nights out in Lisbon

This weekend has been pretty crazy, spending all day exploring the city and its surroundings and then spending all night submersed in Lisbon's incredible nightlife. On friday night, Ole, Myself and Nelson, who is one of the guys that work in our hostel went out to Barrio Alto. Barrio Alto was far out of this world, it is a maze of streets which are all filled with people drinking. It is almost as if no one drinks inside of the bars, they just buy a beer and walk out into the lane ways. It was tough getting through the crowds there, there were thousands and thousands of people there is was quite a sight. We wandered about for a few hours, had a few drinks and returned to the hostel.

Saturday night was a little bigger, we met a couple of lads in our hostel from Belgium, they were a load of fun, we had a few beers at the Hostel and caught the tram into town. We arrived and went into a really great little irish pub called O'Gilins. We walked in the door and there was a band playing traditional Irish folk songs and a couple of really cool covers of popular songs on their drums and violins. We wet our whistles and moved onto the next place, which was a club just down the road, they had a really cool mix of music and a great crowd. We were disappointed when it closed at 3:00am, so again we moved on to another night club called the Music Box. The Music Box was playing some more pop and dance songs, some in English and some in Portuguese. The best thing about it was that it had a 7:00am closing time, we were set for the rest of the night. Caught a cab home and managed to just make it to bed before the sun came up. We had an absolute blast in Lisbon, may have spent a little more then i had planned, but it was worth it. Lisbon has been amazing.