WALKING UP AND DOWN IN LISBON
Arriving in Lisbon, I was some what disconcerted when the taxi driver told me that I was a long way from the centre. The hotel had been booked because of its proximity to the Calouste Gulbenkian and Modern Art Museum. Not in relationship with the old town. "A good hour's walk" I was told or 6 stops in the underground. I had also been told that Lisbon was very hilly - so far so good. A slow slope down to the Edward Park and having found Cortes Ingles, the very famous Spanish department store, I went in to buy some facial cream. It was a museum in itself and for an hour I wandered around watching customers change unwanted Christmas gifts. There were a lot of bored men around until I got to the men's department where the women were rushing around the men trying to get them to select something - they wanted! Or it looked that way to me. The Sales were already on so there were the frenetic buyers too but I wasn’t here for this. The sun was about to set when I