Makore mashoma apfuura pandakaverenga bhuku raPascal Mercier, "Chitima chehusiku kuenda kuLisbon," ndakatanga kuve nemafungiro ekusaziva nezvekudzokera kuPortugal. Ini ndakanga ndisipo kubva kunopera makore makumi mapfumbamwe pandakange ndashanda pachinyorwa paPort Wines muOporto. Pandakapedza bhuku, rinounza muverengi munguva yakasviba yenhoroondo yePortugal apo shanduko yesocialist yakanga ichitanga uye nyika iri kuyedza kuzviburitsa kubva mumaketani ehudzvanyiriri, ndakayeuka rwendo rwangu rwekutanga kuLisbon:

Ndakanga ndine makore 11 okukura uye ndichigara muMadrid. Mamwe mangwanani baba vangu vakamuka vaine zano remusango - kupedza vhiki yevhiki muLisbon, uye taityaira makiromita mazana mashanu kana kupfuura muRenault Dauphine yake. Aya aive mazuva pamberi pemigwagwa mikuru kuvapo, yaive 500, uye Salazar yaive ichiri kutonga.

Pfungwa yangu yekutanga yakauya panenge pakati pehusiku patakasvika pamuganhu uye taifanira kupa mapasipoti ekupinda. Mazwi ekutanga echiPutukezi ndakanzwa achirira guttural uye anenge nerurimi rweSlavic. Kubatsira baba vangu kufamba munzira dzakamanikana kuenda kuLisbon raive basa, mwenje mishoma munzira yekubatsira kutungamira mutyairi uye chete chena mutsetse uri pakati, waida pendi basa.

Maawa mashoma gare gare, takasvika kuguta uye takamisikidzwa zvakanaka kuHotera Tivoli paLisbon's Avenida Libertade.

Nekukurumidza kuenda ku2018, uye makore mashoma ndakura, ini ndakanga ndakagara muhofisi yangu yeNew York, apo chando chaive chakazara mumigwagwa pazasi uye tembiricha ichiramba ichidzikira, ndakatanga kuumbiridza mifananidzo yemamiriro ekunze anodziya.

Magineti yangu yaigara iri yeMediterranean uye kunyanya maodzanyemba eEurope, uye ini ndakatanga kutsvaga nzira inodhura yaizondidzorera kune yangu kamwe pane imwe nguva imba yekuNice. Nomuzvarirwo, vatakuri vetsika vakaita seBA neAir France vaizouya mupfungwa, zvisinei, mitengo yavo yaive yakanyanya kudhura kuti vatenge, uye havana kupa kukwikwidza-imwe-nzira fares kwandaienda. Pinda, Air Portugal. Pandakatarisa webhusaiti yavo ini handina kukwanisa kutenda maziso angu, imwe nzira yekuNice kuburikidza neLisbon isingasviki madhora mazana matatu - yaive yakafanana nayo.

Ndichiongorora zvakare, ndakaona kuti Air Portugal yaipa 1-5 yekumira usiku muLisbon kana Porto pasina muripo. Kuita kuti chinopihwa chiwedzere kutaridzika, iyo ndege yaizokanda musarudzo yemahotera akaderedzwa, kushanya, uye maresitoreti kubhutsu. Uku kwaive kusina brainer, uye heino nguva yangu yechando yekuzorora.

Kutya kwangu chete zvaive zviitiko zvangu zvekare paTAP, ndichirangarira nendege yakamisikidzwa chaizvo. Izvi zvaive kumashure muma80s. Iye zvino takanga tiri muna 2018, uye ndakanzwa kuti pasi pehutungamiriri hweMukuru wayo mutsva, Fernando Pinto, chifananidzo ichocho chakange chaenda kare uye nendege yakanga yawana mibairo mizhinji.

Kwapera vhiki, ndanga ndichinwa tii masikati, ndichizvitutumadza ndichienda kuEurope, kuresitorendi yaAudrey, chikamu cheiyo inonakidza Santiago de Alfama Hotel muLisbon kota yekare, pandakaitika ndichigumburana nemuridzi Manel. Hunhu hwakasiyana uye mujaho, Manel nemukadzi wake vakabatsira mukushongedzwa uye kunakidzwa kwehotera uye vava kugadzirisa chivakwa chiri padhuze chinonzi Palacio de Santiago, chinozowedzera runako pamwe nemakamuri ehotera. Ndichiri kutarisa "saiti" nyowani, Manel akave nechokwadi chekuti ndaiziva kuti mumugwagwa uyu, Rua Santiago, "kudyidzana kwenyika" kwaibhadharwa nemari, uye Christopher Columbus akaroora. Ihotera yakakwana yemufambi anoda kuziva. Maonero akanaka pamusoro peruwa rwekare rweAlfama kubva pachinzvimbo chayo kumusoro pamusoro peguta chakasarudzika sezvazvakaita kune iyo Pantheon uye iyo Sao Vincente Monastery.

Mazuva maviri gare gare, ndakadzokera kunhandare yendege mushure meLisbon "gadziriro" inonakidza uye ndakakwira yangu Air Portugal ichibatanidza nendege kuenda kuNice.

Ini handikwanise kufunga nezve imwe nzira iri nani yekupfuura pamusoro pejet lag.