June 14, 2024

Travel Day - Gran Canary to Lisbon to Hamburg 

I flew from Gran Canary to Lisbon Portugal on TAP - Air Portugal. Easy 2-hour flight, but the Lisbon Airport was a crazy experience!  I had 2 hours, between the connecting flights, but spent the time being routed all through the airport. First try, they routed me in a giant circle and I ended up going through the long lines, to clear customs, twice!  Second time through I followed different signage, but again could not find my flight listed anywhere on the monitors where I was. I finally figured I must have to change terminals for the connection. When I went all the way through baggage claim in first terminal I came out of the building and saw another terminal across the way and then finally found monitors showing my flight.  Shockingly it listed my gate and flight as FINAL CALL. I now had to boogie through this new terminal's security (TSA) and the extremely crowded duty-free shops and tons of strolling passengers. Then, I hear my name being called over the PA system and I am sprinting to the gate, arms waving and thank goodness they saw me. They radioed the taxiway bus, and he quickly got me to the plane. I boarded to lots of stares and breathed a sigh of relief! They shut the doors right behind me and we were off! 

Farewell Canaries and hello Lisbon Portugal port, stadium and aqueduct - views from plane.

Unusual store I saw in Lisbon airport confusion that was selling tons of fancy cans of fish!! Shocking not a ton of shoppers here!

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