Afreetrade SWE UF

Up early. Today we were meeting the Italian team. After packing our things and a huge hotel breakfast we took a cab to the airport. Some staff from the "Why Not" project were also there to give us instructions and to meet the Italians also.

At last the group came and we all took a bus to the hotel we were staying at over the weekend, it was located in, what I think the busdriver called it, the "expo part" of Lisbon. It was a very nice hotel indeed. However, the check-in took some time so we had a few hours to explore the city. Anna, Helena, Sophia and I went to the Oceanario (a big aquarium). Fun.

In the afternoon it was time for "ice-breaking". Sophia and I were in a group with Nicola, Riccardo, Maximilian, Catherina and Charlotta from Italy and the idea with the whole thing was to get to know each other. Together with our staff-girl we took the Metro to some old part of Lisbon and wondered around there to answer some questions, sort of like a quiz walk. It was a very cute district with small streets and old houses, one billion churches (not really) and a tiny pub/kiosk/café in every streetcorner. But, how nice the view might have been the looong walk almost killed us all. Lucky enough we got to sit down at last for dinner. Not the best food in the world, but good enough.

The Metro back to the hotel and Sophia and I chopped of our feet from all the pain. Okay, not literally but almost... When lying in our beds there suddenly was a knock on the door. There stood three sweet spanish dudes who invited us over to their room for a "fiesta". The visit to Room Espagnol was not long though, the bus leaved 05.45 the next morning for the trade fair.

xoxo Amanda