I spent a week in Lisbon, Portugal on work.

Each day started with this nice climb up the street behind my hotel for coffee.

The hotel Algiers in the park behing the cafe.

Alley along the way back.

A coworker and I got settled in style with a rooftop setup. Lisbon is a city of rooftop bars.

The team headed out to dinner.

We visited LX Factory. A sort of outdoor arts enclave filled with shops and restaurants. The map at the entrance paid cheeky tribute to the precarious status of such a place amidst the development boom happening all around: "Until debt tear us apart".

And sure enough, the view from a rooftop deck was a choreographed criss-cross of cranes doing the dance of large scale contstruction.

We visited the Pena National Palace in Sintra...not ideal for someone who is afraid of heights!

Nearly every public park in Lisbon has a cafe or bar or restaurant in it. Many with hilarious English/American names like "Banana Cafe" and "Hot Dog Lovers"

I made it a goal for the trip to partake of one of these park bars. Mission accomplished!

We took a tuk tuk tour of the city.

Extravagant bathrooms were a theme in Lisbon.

The TAP lounge at the Lison airport had a self-serve bar!

Logan, a real nexus of transportation by land, sea and air.