Finally

Finally I went out last night, in honour of St. Paddy! Mike and I went to an Irish bar near Cais do Sodré train station, which was a nice place. There were some annoying Americans, but you get that everywhere! lol

We then went on up to Barrio Alto and went to a Spanish bar that seemed to play a lot of reggaeton Spanish music, which all sounds a bit samey to me. It not reggae, it's just odd. Anyway, we had vodka and lemon (it was just lemon juice, and it was gorgeous!).

Then we went to Finalmente which is a gay disco further up in Chiado. It was ok, bu it would have been better if there had been better music. It was all a bit techno, and there was no songs that I knew. I thought it'd be a bit like Cruz. Well, it sort of was inside, but it was teeny! As Mike put it, it was someone's front room with a stage! There was a drag queen show, with the usual dragging people up onto the stage. Luckily we were at the back. We were talking to a bloke called Andy who lives in Lisbon teaching English.

Stumbled home at 4:30 am, got a taxi home (only €15, so not bad!) bu the taxi driver was talking about George Bush etc. All well and good, but at that timein the morning, I couldn't cope with a political debate in Portuguese!

So I woke up this afternoon at 3pm, so my sleep cycle will be messed up! D'oh!

In other news, Pedro is also ill, so my illness is imminent, althought I would have thought that I would have had it by now. Rui seems to be getting better, and his mum is still looking after him, but I think she'll be going home tomorrow.

Well, I'm off for some 7up.

Boa noite,

Ben xxxx