Saturday .... The Police Station Visit

Saturday, February 21, 2009, Lisbbon

Well today we learned a very expensive lesson. … After having been on several trams and paid the driver we assumed that we were okay to jump on a tram with money in hand but we could not reach the driver and the ticket machine did not work, or maybe we just did not know how to work it properly, anyway we saw a man with a hand held ticket machine we asked him to sell us a ticket…. By this time the tram was moving…. He arrested us for not having tickets and took us to the police station. Where we ended up paying a fine of 113 euros each…. Lesson learned but I was just glad to pay it and get away from the whole situation…. We were on our way to see Belem which is another part of Lisbon. It is where Columbus set sail for the new world and has some beautiful statuary marking the early travelers departure areas.

Anyway after all the excitement we got back to our hostel… settled down… found a place to purchase tram tickets and eventually we did get to Belem and back without further incident. Plans for tonight are to stay in the hostel and again share dinner with them. So think that I will post this and work with my pictures.