On Sunday, we had breakfast and spent a few more hours in the neighborhood including stopping in the giant Zara to buy pastel de nata to bring to London. We had a driver bring us to the airport and managed to make our way through to our gate without major lines or incident. Checking in and tagging your bags for TAP in Lisbon is like using a self check out at the grocery store. You even scan in your bag and put it on the belt. We got through security and then stopped in duty free and grabbed sandwiches. Once our gate was announced we went through passport control. There wasn’t really a line to use the kiosk but it didn’t take Mom’s info so we had to go through the manual line anyway. All the horror stories we saw on Instagram did not come to pass for us at least. The flight was mostly uneventful and then arrival in London was also relatively smooth. We took the Elizabeth line to our hotel which was crowded because parts of the underground were not running.
Our hotel is really cute and the staff is really friendly. We stayed in the hotel for dinner because we were so hungry and then settled in for the night. For dinner we had, chicken paillard, seared trout and truffle fries and carrots.
