Back on the road again!

Hey people,

as I already mentioned earlier I am going to keep you updated during my next adventure! So, stick to the blog if you want to see how I get on or just check out my Facebook account to stay informed!

Okay - how should I start? Well, right now I'm sitting on a sofa in the hostel where I checked in for tonight...

The day started out to be pretty good. No stress at the airport, got all my luggage, no issues with the bicycle and even the first "conversation" in Portuguese went well (said "Hello my name is Dominik and I'm from Germany", when ordering a chicken baguette). So far so good!

After carrying my bicycle all stairs from the metro I managed to arrive in the city center of Lisbon! Great feeling to embrace the atmosphere which hit me right through! The only thing I yet needed to do was to find a hostel...that's where I had some problems with - well, you might think I could have just pre booked one, but come on, traveling is more fascinating if you have absolutely no idea where you end up, right!? It turned out that the first 4 hostels I asked for a bed where fully booked. I got lucky with no. 5 and here we are - sitting on a sofa at 1 o'clock with relaxing music in the background, trying to find the right words for my blog 😊.
It couldn't have been a more exciting start for me in Portugal and I'm even more excited about cycling the coast down south!

I want to finish with another life lesson of today: I met this guy just before taking the flight from Eindhoven to Lisbon today. He was confusingly asking me if this is the right gate he was standing on. Well, it wasn't and I kindly helped him out and told him where to go as he had to take a different flight to Lisbon at a later schedule.
Hours later in Lisbon when I needed to buy the ticket for the metro I realised that the ticket machines weren't working properly. There was a huge queue in front of it and waiting probably would have taken me like another 30 min...
Well, what should I say. Just in front of the queue was that same guy I helped out earlier the day. Apparently he was Portuguese and knew the lady at the service desk. He was returning the favor and bought me the ticket so I haven't had to wait 😊.
When spreading kindness and helping people, it's like a circle, sooner or later it will return to you! 😊 ✌

Dom