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Here you'll find all the information about the Winter EBT Meeting 2014 in Lisbon

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.

If you want to participate, remember to subscribe here.
If you want information on how to arrive, you can look down here.
If you want information on where to stay (and see where others plan to stay), you can look here.
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.
If you want information about the prices (meals, entrance fees, transportation), check the daily programs (links above).
Please mind the rules, mentioned in this topic.

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

Saturday

• 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

Sunday

• 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)

Notes
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.

How to arrive
By plane
International Lisbon Portela Airport (LIS / LPPT) is served by all the major traditional airlines and a bunch of low cost ones. Direct connections to all capitals and a lot of major towns in the Euro Area.
The Airport is in town. Fast connections (15 to 30 minutes) by subway or bus to the center and pretty much anywhere in town.

By train
Two overnight international services available, one from Madrid and the other from Irun / Hendaye on the border between Spain and France, where you can change trains (Sud Express, TGV from Paris).

By car
Lisbon can be accessed from six main highways, including the following European Routes:

• E01 (from Galicia and, through ferry, from Ireland)
• E80 (from Spain, France and Italy; and, through ferry and Croatia, from Montenegro and Kosovo too)
• E90 (from southern Spain, then through ferry from Southern Italy, then through another ferry from Greece)
  (Warning: parking is not easy in Lisbon; if you plan to come by car, tell us where you’ll stay and we’ll teach you where to leave your car.)

Addresses
(We'll update this as soon as possible.)

Move-me is a great app for PC, Android and iPhone, in English, that tells you which public transport you may take to get from a point to another one (with real time updating for bus locations). We'll talk about it later.

Menus


Friday lunch, 13h15
Restaurante Oh! Lacerda
Please choose beforehand if you can and tell us as soon as possible, so that the service is ready earlier. Main course suggested by the cook (a lovely lady, by the way):

• Folhado de Pato = Duck in Puff Pastry — house specialty
• Bacalhau à Brás — traditional recipe from Lisbon; bacalhau is dried and salted cod - which is then desalted to cook; this recipe is made from shreds of bacalhau, onions and shoestring potatoes (pommes paille) in a bound of scrambled eggs
• Carne de Porco à Portuguesa — typical recipe of pork loin marinated in white wine, garlic, paprika and bay leaves, then diced and fried with diced potatoes
• Bacalhau com Broa e Espinafres = Bacalhau in the Oven with Crumbled Broa and Spinach — broa is a kind of Portuguese cornbread made of cornmeal, wheat and yeast
• Folhado de Legumes = Vegetables in Puff Pastry — vegetarian

Friday dinner, 20h00
Cantina Lx
Here's the full menu. If you care to choose already, that would be nice too.

Para começar = For starters:

• Pão a lenha no nosso forno com azeite = Bread baked in our wood-fired oven, with olive oil
• Azeitona galega temperada = Seasoned olives of Galega variety
  The Galega variety is a natural black olive exclusively produced in Portugal. Very likely, there will be no chemical residues of any kind, since Galega’s plantations are generally not treated with chemicals, and the process of curing is totally natural
• Queijo de meia cura ou fresco = Fresh cheese, or matured for a short time
• Mistura de enchidos assados no nosso forno = A mix of sausages roasted in our oven
• Bufete de saladas = Salad buffet

Entradas = First course:

• Sopa do dia = Daily special soup
• Queijinho de Borba com confit de cebolas em porto, de presunto serrano e tosta = Borba cheese with onion and Port wine confit, serrano ham and rusks
  Borba is made from 100% pure sheep milk, serrano ham is dry-cured ham similar to the Spanish jamón
• Empada de rabo de boi com cogumelos e tomilho = Oxtail pie with mushrooms and thyme
• Escabeche de perdiz com tomate seco e finas tostas de centeio = Marinated partridge with dry tomato and rye rusk slices
• Beringelas gratinadas com molho de tomate e orégãos = Aubergines au gratin with tomato and oregano sauce
• Panado de tofu com quinoa estufada em tomate e salsa = Tofu coated in breadcrumbs with quinoa stewed in tomato and parsley

Peixe = Fish

• Almofadinhas de bacalhau com arroz de amêijoas = Bacalhau baked pastries with carpet shell rice
• Posta de bacalhau assada com salada de pimentos e batatinhas novas = Roasted bacalhau fillet with sweet peppers and little early potatoes
• Lombo de robalo com migas de broculos e palha de alho francês = European seabass with broccoli migas and shoestring leek
  migas is a traditional Portuguese dish similar to the homonym Spanish recipe: leftover bread cooked in garlic and olive oil
• Troço de polvo a lagareiro batata nova e grelos = Octopus chunk lagareiro style with early potato and turnip greens
  “lagareiro” is anyone who runs an oil press; lagareiro style consists of boiling then grilling, and then served dipped in hot olive oil and garlic
• Massada de tamboril com camarão = Pipe rigate with anglerfish and shrimp
  pipe rigate is a hollow curved pasta resembling a snail shell
• Naco de atum sobre batata rijada e cebolada à portuguesa = Tuna fillet on a bed of potatoes fried in lard and onion sauce
• Gambas panadas com molho tártaro e arroz basmati = Prawns coated in breadcrumbs with tartar sauce and basmati rice

Carne = Meat:

• Arroz de coelho com segurelha e farinheira = Rabbit rice with winter savory and farinheira
  farinheira is a smoked sausage made mainly from wheat flour, pork fat, white wine, paprika, salt and pepper
• Alheira em crosta de sésamo e couve portuguesa com broa de milho = alheira in a sesame crust and collard greens with cornbread broa
  alheira is a Portuguese sausage created by jews and usually made of poultry, veal, garlic and bread; broa is a kind of Portuguese cornbread made of cornmeal, wheat and yeast
• Bochecha de porco preto com migas de espargos verdes = Pork cheeks of Black Iberian pigs with green asparagus migas
• Costeleta de vitelona carnalentejana, espinafres salteados e chips de batata doce = Rose veal chop “Carnalentejana” with sautéed spinach and sweet potatoe chips
  Carnalentajana is a brand of meat from the Alentejo region with Protected Designation of Origin
• Naco de lombo de novilho com cepes e seu molho = Beef knuckle with penny buns in its sauce
• Perna de borrego carnalentejana com batata e legumes à padeiro = Leg of lamb “Carnalentejana” with potatoes and vegetables cooked in wine in the oven

Saturday lunch, 12h45
Adega Victor Horta
This is a preset menu for 20 €. It's the main meeting meal but it's also a light one (well, Portuguese "petiscos" aren't exactly light…). We need to know who's joining this meal. Please answer until Thursday lunch max. (ideally, until Wednesday).

Os acepipes simples = Simple delicacies

• O azeite aromático = Aromatic olive oil
• A bolsa da broa = A bag with broa
  broa is a kind of Portuguese cornbread made of cornmeal, wheat and yeast
• O patê de alheira = Alheira pâté
  alheira is a Portuguese sausage created by jews and usually made of poultry, veal, garlic and bread

O acepipe rico = A rich delicacy

• O cogumelo assado na brasa = Braised mushroom

O enchido = The sausage

• A farinheira com ovo mexido = Farinheira with scramble egg
  farinheira is a smoked sausage made mainly from wheat flour, pork fat, white wine, paprika, salt and pepper

Os manjares de peixe = Fish goodies
these are typical canned fish, popular food which has gone trendy in the last 4 or 5 years

• Pilchard filet in hot tomato sauce
  yes, our sardinha is pilchard, not sardine
• Chub mackerel filet in herbs sauce
  this is like a mini tuna

O postre = The dessert

• O doce de abóbora com queijo de ovelha = Squash compote with sheep's milk cheese

O sumo natural = Freshly squeezed juice

• O sumo natural de laranja = Orange juice

As cervejas da Adega = Beers from the cellar

• Pilsner
• Stout

Os vinhos Victor Horta® wines

• White (Arinto + Fernão Pires - Portuguese grape varieties)
• Red (Castelão, also known as Periquita, a Portuguese grape variety, + Tempranillo)

A "peúga" = The "sock"

• Café peúga = "Sock" coffee — I also don't know what it is, but I can guess.

Saturday dinner, 20h00
Cervejaria Trindade
This is a preset menu for 25 €. We need to know who's joining this meal. Please answer until Thursday lunch max. (ideally, until Wednesday).

• Pão, Manteiga e Croquete = Bread, Butter, Croquette

Choose between:

• Caldo Verde
  the most popular soup in Portuguese cuisine: minced collard greens and onion in a potato purée, with a slice of chorizo added on top
• Creme de Legumes = Vegetable Creamy Clear Soup

Choose between:

• Bife de Alcatra à Trindade = Rump steak "à la Trindade"
  fried and then cooked in beer and cream; served almost drowned in its sauce, and sided by fries
• Bacalhau à Brás (see above)

• Pudim Flan = Crème Caramel
  an old classic that fell into disuse
• Café = Coffee
• Água / Refrigerantes / Cerveja / Vinho = Water or Soda or Beer or Wine
  open bar for any of these drinks

Prices
(We'll update this as soon as possible:)

Lets plan this

lmviterbo wrote:


[*]Patisseries serving the already world-famous “pastéis de nata” (egg-tart pastries), along with a dozen other staple traditional pastries.

by luck, the patisseries where the "pasteis de nata" has been created (at least from what the legend tells)......... and still the best of whole Lisbon, is located around the corner of one of our 'to visit" location: the coaches museum !! (how to join culture and pleasure !!!) 38.697476,-9.199329

an-148 wrote:is located around the corner of one of our 'to visit" location: the coaches museum !! (how to join culture and pleasure !!!) 38.697476,-9.199329

Indeed. Sadly - or perhaps not! - the coach collection will still be displayed in its current home, despite the fact that a brand new museum is ready for it, and is merely waiting for a few finishing touches and a suitable grand opening date. Also, there's still no word on the Money Museum. Will it open until March? I don't know...

Montgomery Burns wrote:the coach collection will still be displayed in its current home, despite the fact that a brand new museum is ready for it, and is merely waiting for a few finishing touches and a suitable grand opening date.

We will try to visit the place even if it isn't open yet (which is rather probable…)

Montgomery Burns wrote:Also, there's still no word on the Money Museum. Will it open until March? I don't know...

I am confident that we will be able to visit this museum even if it isn't opened yet (better chances are that it will be open, though).

lmviterbo wrote:

Montgomery Burns wrote:the coach collection will still be displayed in its current home, despite the fact that a brand new museum is ready for it, and is merely waiting for a few finishing touches and a suitable grand opening date.

We will try to visit the place even if it isn't open yet (which is rather probable…)

Interesting. I know you mentioned a possible "private" tour of the (practically finished) Money Museum, but I don't remember anything being mentioned about the new coach museum. Incidentally, other than the building itself and the surrounding area, what would be other points of interests? I mean, it's an empty museum...

Montgomery Burns wrote:Incidentally, other than the building itself and the surrounding area, what would be other points of interests? I mean, it's an empty museum...

I'm assuming it might be interesting from the architectural point of view. When we thought of including the Coach Museum in the tour (if I'm not mistaken, CarlosManta suggested it), I hadn't even thought of the new building. Now that you mentioned it, I thought of checking out if it's interesting and trying to plan a private tour if so.

OK, cool. I'm glad I unwittingly suggested an idea for the meet.

hallo! I believe these ones are the official web sites of
metro of Lisbon and metro of Almada
is it right?

mico wrote:I believe these ones are the official web sites of
metro of Lisbon and metro of Almada
is it right?

Yes, that's right.

I wonder why you would need Almada's subway.

Anyway, if you need any more specific help, don't hesitate to ask.

Will we be needing the Lisbon Card?