Packing until 1am and then up at 4:45am isn’t the best start to a day! Taxi turned up on time thankfully and whisked us away to T2, where, after a limited amount of airport nonsense we discovered, to our horror, that T2 didn’t have a Wetherspoon! Breakfast therefore was ok but too pricy for my liking

Following an uneventful plane ride we discovered two things, firstly it turns out that Portugal is the same time zone as the UK, secondly, their passport control is very slow!

With bags now it tow, we negotiated the metro to our first stop to drop off the cases at a random left luggage place, grab some food on route, and eventually arrived at the key destination, Lisbon Aquarium.

One of the best in the world we understood, and although it was very good it did it predominantly centre around one massive tank which after a while, did start to get a bit tedious.

There was some amazing fish though including Manta rays, sharks, tuna and hundreds of other small varieties, plus otters which were really cool

Leaving the aquarium it was just a quick Uber to the apartment, which is nice but slightly an odd layout (two front doors, only one bathroom accessed via Williams bedroom, and three doors to Rebecca’s room!) and we’re headed out for dinner.

Seemed a mission to work out what to order, tired kids, missing items in the menu, fruit flies buzzing around, and lots of bones in the fish when it turned up; turned what could have been a pleasant meal into a bit of a chore. Saying that, Li did have a great paella, so all was not lost