Tue 27 May- after a royal buffet breakfast, reluctantly left the Palace. Another cool (16C) cloudy day - this is really unexpected weather for Portugal in late May! We visited the Garden & Palace of Fronteira. Built in 1670 as a summer hunting lodge, it was extensively upgraded after the 1755 earthquake, when the family relocated there after their Lisbon home was destroyed - and it was a truly first-class upgrade. There is a huge amount of tile work everywhere, inside and outside the house, and a nice garden to complement the tiles made the visit well worthwhile.
Then on to our Hotel Tivoli in Sintra. In 2009, the Tivoli will reopen the former Setais Palace as the Tivoli Palace, and it will be fabulous. Meanwhile, this hotel is very convenient for the town - it's just across the street from just about everything important: the National Palace, the tourist office, the Indian restaurant, the Hockey Caffee, the bus stop to the Pena and Moorish castles, and has convenient parking.
We visited the Palace first, saw many beautiful tiles and interesting architectural features. Unfortunately, the garden was closed to the public two years ago.
For dinner, we returned to the Hockey Caffee, where we had delicious octopus when we were here last (in 2000?). So we had Octopus Lagare E14; grilled sardines E12; 2 beers E6.60; bread, butter & olives E4 for a total E37. It was very good, but not as good as we remembered it - I guess you really can't go back.
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