Tartu Health Care College: Setubal

Hello everyone !

We wanted to tell you about our first roadtrip to Setubal and Sesimbra. There were five of us, Miguel (Portuguese student, already graduated physiotherapy), Matteo and Michele – Italian physiotherapy students and us (Liina and Kristina). First we visited the main sights of the city Setubal, saw the local churches, the port, the main square of course etc. Walked along the coast and enjoyed the ocean view and fantastic beaches. Setubal is famous for its choco frita which we tasted in a local restaurant but had to wait for ages, because all the restaurants were really full. It is unusual for us that people are willing to wait, sometimes even an hour to get seated, so we did not manage to get our food on lunchtime. But we must say the food is worth waiting for, we all liked it very much.

The most amazing time we had when we were driving up to the mountain – Arrabida national park. Of course we were asked about Estonian highest mountain, so that was a suprise to them that we call some random hill a mountain J. There were amazing views from everywhere and we did several stops to take pictures like some Japanese tourists. Also, people were so polite that they even stopped in the middle of the road to let us take pitures and at one point there were six cars in the line (and no honking!).

Next stop was Sesimbra, famous for its’ beautiful coasts and restaurants with great seafood.

There was again, amazing beach and fabulous views to the ocean and some really big waves also. We were challenged to eat snails, and we did it ! It was totally disgusting, because it was too wierd to eat animals which crawl in our gardens. But the Italians ate them, but clearly they did not enjoy these as much as Miguel whose plate had the biggest pile of shells afterwards. We chose to eat Portuguese traditional desserts instead – different Pastel de natas and drank good coffee.

On the way back crossed the 25th April bridge, there was such a beautiful view to Lisbon in city lights and a great view to Cristo-Rei (famous Jesus statue, almoust the same as in Brazil).

Back in Lisbon – was a super trip !

Liina Kõllamets FT2
Kristina Kärk TK3