Postcard sent by Pedro (Portugal).
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Thursday Postcard HuntNovember theme: SCENERY/LANDSCAPES
- Week 1 - With animals
- Week 2 - With people
- Week 3 - With buildings
- Week 4 - Multiviews
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I still remember when trams were really an everyday transportation means in Lisbon.
ReplyDeleteOh the joy of ridding the tram with your head out of the fully open guillotine Windows.... You'd be doing probably not more than 20-30 km/h but it felt like a ride in an F1 car...
Nowadays there's but a very few lines, mostly used by tourists, but the day those classic trams disapear from Lisbon, It will ill be as if a limb would be severed from the city's body....
The cars on the lower pictures are of two of Lisbon's funiculars... just like that of elevador da Glória, which unfortunately very recently made the news for the most horrendous reasons....😥
What a great memory. It is interesting when things slowly disappear for the locals, but are so popular with tourists.
DeleteI spend in Lisboa the summer of 1997. Everyday I had to take the 28 to reach my home in Graça :)
DeleteNice memories!
There are nowadays only 6 operational lines, one of them using modern trams mostly.
Delete28 is, of course, the most famous line and especially during the high season its trams are always full...
If not getting on the tram on the first stop, you'd probably have to fight your way in, to get back home to Graça, these days....😉
Just a suggestion for anyone comtemplating visiting Lisboa.
DeleteThe Carris Museum is well worth a visit, especially for anyone interested in tram and bus history. Kids will love It too.
Very close to It is also a great art deco Museum not to BE missed either..., the B-MAD.
Correction: the funicular cars are of course on the upper photos, not the lower.
ReplyDeleteThis is really a beautiful postcard!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Marina!
DeleteSo colorful! Trams matching the buildings. I was in Lisbon many decades ago, but my parents had a car so we didn't use the trams.
ReplyDeleteTrams are a nice way of seeing a city. I remember that in Helsinki I took several rides in the circular line (I can't remember the name or number).
DeleteI like the pictorial lettering and of course those lovely trams
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