Gulbenkian day

The ducks weren't fooled by a peice of paper but that was all Jim had. And we weren't fooled by the "art" on offer in the museum of modern art at the Gulbenkian but we were, as ever, delighted by the permanent collection.

It turned out to be a lovely clear day in Lisbon. We wasted several hours of it in El Cortes Ingles which is a large department store. They have the biggest shoe department that I have come across. Many were temptingly sensible in contrast to other shoe stores here that seem to specialize in ankle crackers. How anybody could consider wearing anything but flat shoes on these cobbled streets is beyond me.

We had dinner with our cousins Zezinha and Belinha. So nice to see them again.