First Day in Portugal by Kayley

Last week, we walked around the coastal town of Lagos, Portugal. I really liked Lagos because it was a very cute town. Lagos is on the southern tip of Portugal and was quite warm when we were there. The small beach in Lagos was clean and had some really cool purple opal shells, white shark egg casings, and dark green sea sponges on the yellow and orange sand. There were lots of historical places and copper statues of important historical people at the water front in Lagos.

Lagos had a thick stone wall all the way around the small, old part of the town. The city walls were really old, thick and made out of gray stone. In Lagos, the narrow cobblestone streets had nice patterns in black and white stone. The streets in Lagos were like mazes and were hard to navigate around, even walking around town was hard. There weren't many people walking around the city, so it was nice and relaxing to walk around Lagos. The tall buildings made the narrow cobble stone streets made me feel a little closed in and made the streets feel like a maze. Most of the two story tall apartment buildings were white with red orange masonry tile roofs. Also the weather changes a lot. It was cloudy all day, but it turned from hot to cold all the time. It turned cold when the sun was covered by the clouds and was hot when the wind moved the clouds out of the way. Although the day was a little unpredictable, it was very relaxing to walk around Lagos .

At the waterfront, there was a copper statue of Eannes who was someone important to Lagos, I can't remember why. I can't remember Eannes' first name either. The plaque underneath the statue and at the base had spelled Eannes two different ways, Eannes and Eanes, that was kind of confusing. A long time ago, Lagos was attacked by lots of different countries like Spain and probably Britain because Britain was a big empire around that time. Everybody wanted Lagos because it was at the mouth of the mediterranean. Also, Lagos used to be a center of the slave trade. Lagos had the slave trade because the black plague was killing the workers and there was a shortage of labor in Europe, so they sold African slaves.

I really liked Lagos and thought Lagos was a really cute town. The weather was pleasant to walking around in walk on the Beach . Although the history was more Zander's type that my type I enjoyed it any way.

By Kayley