Check here (and download, if you want), the first page of the paper itinerary that you will be given when we meet you. There's all sorts of important information to read beforehand. There's a 9 € fee (per participant) to pay for the organization expenses.
UPDATE
Here's Friday program
Here's Saturday program
Sunday:
Meeting same time, same place: 09h00 Rossio Train Station
Buying tickets (Train + Bus)
Going to Sintra (train leaves at 09:38)
Visiting Sintra National Palace
Meeting at Piriquita (amazing seet pastries: "travesseiros")
Going to Cabo da Roca (bus leaves at 13:10)
Cabo da Roca
Going to Cascais (bus leaves at 14:47)
Cascais — official End of Meeting
They're not beautifully formatted (because I'm putting all my efforts on the paper itinerary that will be given to you) but the basic information is all there.
MENUS uploaded! Check them down there and tell as soon as possible which meals you will attend.
The first messages in this thread will be updated every time there is some new information. (For the time being, these messages are still in their infancy.)
If you don't find the information you're looking for, feel free to ask or comment. Portuguese-speaking? Spanish? French? Italian? We're willing to help in your language. We're sure someone else will be able to help in other languages too.
The meeting will take place on the last weekend of Winter, starting Friday afternoon, 14 March, 2014 (pre-meeting) through Sunday lunchtime, 16 March, 2014.
(Note: the organizers decided not to offer any other choice for voting, since this is the only weekend when every member of the crew will be available.)
Skip the following paragraph to find the program outline and some very general information about Lisbon.
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If you want information about the addresses (so that you can plan where to stay, for example), check the daily programs (links above).
If you want information about the meal menus, check the link on the update above.
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Summary
Flexible modular program in Lisbon including activities almost round the clock. A mystery-tour-like challenge with questions about every spot visited, designed so that the winner will take a big prize (a big batch of unregistered serial numbers: you’ll be given the banknotes but you have to return them). The more program items you register and attend, the best chances you’ll have of winning.
Program outline
the asterisk (*) denotes spots with special interest for EBTists
Friday night
- LX Factory (creative neighborhood) — including dinner at one of the trendy but inexpensive restaurants & Ler Devagar, one of the most amazing bookshops in Europe (we’ll ask them to carry books of special concern to EBTists)
- Lux Frágil — Lisbon's ice-cool, must-see night club part-owned by John Malkovich
- Baixa — lower town area built in the 18th-century in a unique style (Pombaline)
- * Museu do Dinheiro (Money Museum) — this museum built in an 18th-century church and around a 14th-century castle wall will open in the end of 2013
- Alfama + Mouraria — moorish neighborhoods joining local youth and elder people, trendy spots and local trade small shops and coffee shops
- Belém — district combining two UNESCO World Heritage sites together: Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery. Also, a visit to the National Coach Museum, carrying one of the finest and largest collections of historical carriages in the world
- “Fado no Chiado” — a 40-minute show to listen to fado and understand what it is
- Bairro Alto + Chiado — shopping and nightclubbing district
- Lux Frágil — again; or maybe another club
- Sintra — UNESCO World Heritage town surrounded by Sintra Mountains and Sintra-Cascais Nature Park, with 19th-century Romantic architecture and landscapes, dotted by royal retreats, estates, castles and buildings from the 8th-9th century, in addition to many buildings completed between the 15th and 19th century, including the Castelo dos Mouros, the Pena National Palace and the Sintra National Palace.
- * Cabo da Roca (Westernmost point of continental Europe + Westernmost EBT dot)
Note for persons with disabilities: Lots of places in Lisbon are ill-prepared for persons with disabilities. However, if anyone willing to join the meeting / tour has any impairment, the organizers will be glad to find appropriate solutions.
Touristic appeal of Lisbon and surroundings
- Moorish neighborhoods Alfama and Mouraria, with its narrow alleys, hanging clothes and plant pots on the window sills and balconies.
- Two iconic UNESCO World Heritage sites together: Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery, in the unique Manueline style.
- Azulejos (Iberian painted, tin-glazed, ceramic tilework) all over buildings, be they palaces or the simplest houses.
- Distinctive yellow trams and funiculars (“elevadores”).
- A belvedere on every hill, with outdoor cafés looking at the river Tagus.
- Patisseries serving the already world-famous “pastéis de nata” (egg-tart pastries), along with a dozen other staple traditional pastries.
- The best espresso outside Italy, period. Everywhere. For 65 cents or less.
- Prices below Europe’s average.
- A multicultural nightlife, mixing on-the-street drinking crowds with all sorts of clubs that would be hip anywhere in world and fado (traditional Lisbon song, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage), altogether in the same neighborhoods.
- Fair weather and low chance of raining.