Then we had an early, low-key evening with Uber Eats back in our hotel. (Her first is the pufferfish) Afterwards, we rode the cable car for a fantastic view. And my daughter’s second favorite fish (yes, she has favorite fish) is the sunfish. We had a great visit except that one of its stars, Stella the Sunfish, had passed away just a few weeks before. I love aquariums I have visited some thirty of them worldwide. We then visited the Oceanarium, Lisbon’s top-notch aquarium. My daughter and I jumped into an Uber to head down to the Parque das Nações for a quick lunch. We took a long nap and by noon we could head out. By the time we arrived it was 7:30 AM and they were nice enough to check us in. We grabbed some breakfast, took a little break, and then we decided to walk to the hotel. After we touched down on time, went through immigration, and found ourselves in arrivals, it was 7 AM. With that in mind, I reserved us a hotel quite close to the airport. That does not give one a whole lot of time to sleep and be able to do much of anything the next day. The TAP Portugal flight takes off from Ahmed Sekou Toure International Airport at 11:45 PM and lands at Lisbon’s Herberto Delgado Airport at 5:15 AM. It may be a short, direct flight, but the schedule, like most flights from Guinea, kind of sucks. ![]() ![]() Though I had been to Portugal before, it was twenty years ago, and I hardly remember the Lisbon part at all. Lisbon is the easiest from Conakry, a direct, four and a half hour flight. But after our trip to Belgium in August I realized that travel from Guinea is tricker than from other places I have lived and I wanted a bit more of Europe to celebrate such an important milestone. I initially zeroed in on Senegal, as one of my goals was to visit a new country. When I saw my daughter’s school schedule for the year included two holidays that same week, meaning she would miss only three days of school, I knew I wanted to take a week off. Months before arriving in Conakry, I thought I could maybe make do with a three-day weekend but I was not sure there would be a place in Guinea that could really fit the bill. It isn’t every day one turns a certain venerable age.
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