On my last day I woke up early and headed to Lisbon.
The airport is only 3km far away from the flat, so I walked. I said goodbye to my little room, and the cats: Chá and Gin. My flight was at 6AM, so I started walking at 4:30AM. Thanks God, it was not raining.
The whole city was empty and sleepy, and the sky was clear with a billion stars above me.
I had around 9-10 hours between my flight in the morning and the next one at night to Budapest. I was tired, and I knew I am going to have a long day landing after midnight. So I had a very slow and comfortable day by visiting only one place in the city, the Navy Museum – Museu de Marinha.
I love old maps, tools and instruments and basically everything related to discoveries, explorations, and exotic landscapes. This museum is massive and have a lot of exhibition materials. Unfortunately a little bit dark to make good photos and -of course- you can not use flash.
At the end – in a separate building you also can see a small exhibition of transport history with ships and planes.
But I have found a bunch of section within Google Arts & Culture based on the exhibitions of the Museum. Highly recommended:
Portugal, A Maritime Legacy
Explore Portugal’s sea culture and how it shaped the nation
A Prince Who Dreamed of the Sea
The story of the first Portuguese oceanographic campaigns
All Aboard!
Join D. Carlos I on a scientific expedition aboard yacht Amelia
Gago Coutinho: Traveler and Explorer
The exhibition on display at the Maritime Museum, evoked both the 150th anniversary of Gago Coutinho’s birth and the 60th anniversary of his passing.
Nautical Instruments
These instruments were essential to help navigators in the calculation processes and in the practical procedures to accurately determine the position of ships at sea.
If you are interested, the Harvard University has a short and free course about navigation of this time period:
PredictionX: Lost Without Longitude
