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that will shock you about Portugal and I did a little video about Portugal before and I'm doing
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right into this video guys hola fellow Travelers Mark here with Walters world and we're in Lisbon
Portugal my old stomping grounds I lived here for five years I love Portugal but even places I love
like Portugal I know there's things that'll shock a tourist when they come here so what we have for
you today are the 10 things that are going to shock you when you come to visit Portugal now
the first thing that's going to shock you is when you go out to eat and you're gonna have
to pay for the bread and butter yes the bread on the table the butter on the table the olives these
things you do pay for here and they actually are in the menu now you'll see that but the thing is
if you're coming from the U.S or other places that oh chips and salsa is free bread is free here it's
not the case and I know people that have actually spent more money on the bread the cheese and the
ham that they've been given they spend more money on that than they did on their actual meal okay so
be careful with that one so you might be shocked yes you do have to pay for the bread and butter in
most places not everywhere but just pay attention now if you don't eat it you don't have to pay you
don't want it you say no thank you they'll say away no problem all right so but that'll be the
first thing that shocks you the second thing that may shock you is also do with the restaurants is
the fact that a lot of the places will close the kitchens between three and seven or eight o'clock
at night so if you're a tourist and you're used to eating at five o'clock in the afternoon for dinner
realize you're gonna have to go to more tourist areas to get dinner okay so there's places here
in Lisbon that do open throughout the day and the kitchen is all the time but a traditional tashka
like a family run restaurant they'll serve food from about 11 to about three and then they'll sue
for food again from 7 to 11 or 12. now the thing is the restaurants won't necessarily close during
the day or during that off time what they'll do is they'll have what are called salgados
like little Savory treats maybe Croquettes of meat or you get a toaster Misa a toasted ham
and cheese sandwich but if you want your bakayawa bras or bakayoko natas or por cupre to the really
awesome dishes here it's hard to get in the late afternoon hours so that's going shock you but just
know if you want the real tashka Portuguese experience you might have to wait for it okay
the third thing that might shock you when you come here this is actually the first thing that
shocked me the first time I came here Portuguese bull fighting now if you go to Spain you see the
Olay Olay stuff and you see the swords and things like that Portuguese bull fighting they don't kill
the ball in the stadium and the thing is it's more horse riding in the beginning They Ride the horses
around to tire out the bowl and then there's a bunch of guys in these kind of funny outfits and
green hats they kind of look like Portuguese elves they go out there and they literally
and they catch the ball I'm not kidding the bull charges them they catch the ball and it's
completely insane when you see the first time it will shock you if you're here in the summer
or the fall you might see it on TV and you're just like what the heck yeah what Portuguese
bull fighting where they actually catch the ball it'll shock you the fourth thing that might shock
you when you come to Portugal especially if you come from the US is the Portuguese love to smoke
they smoke a lot here and you'll see people out I don't know why everybody always be like
like American smoke I I I always notice it like a lot of people always you know
mention how much people in Europe smoke and I'm like the American smoke too like
I mean you walk the streets in America you see the the things on the floor like and you
know the the little lip protection thing that you can have when you put on cigarette you see
those like literally on the floor like so many like Americans smoke I don't know what is this
thing where you know like Americans use drugs a lot right smoking uh e-cigars uh weed uh what's
that other one again uh Vape like Americans do that too but I don't know why it it why like if
you're an American and you're a shock when you go like let me tell you where you might be shot like
if you see a lot a lot of women smoking then I can understand that right because
women in America they smoke but it's it's not something that you really see commonly right but
yeah it ain't nothing special siding in the cafes and outside Banks and outside offices smoking
smoking smoking there's no Stigma on smoking here in Portugal so a lot of people when they come from
the U.S like oh my God everyone here is smoking not everyone but yes smoking is quite common here
and it does shock some tourists that yes you can't smoke next to people and the thing is they do have
a law you can't smoke inside unless you have designated smoking areas so if you're flying
in and out of Lisbon they actually have like a small like cordoned off area that's just for
smokers okay the fifth thing that might shock you when you come here is a tourist is trying
to find good lower price and middle price hotels there's definitely a lack of those in Portugal so
if you're looking for hotels you're not going to get much great stuff lower middle end prices so
what I recommend is Portugal actually has some of the best hostels I know hostels Mark I'm 40 years
old 30 years old I don't go to hostels they have family rooms there they have stuff like
that but honestly hostile world is ranked lot of the Portuguese hostels especially here in Lisbon
some of the best in the world and also Portugal is really good with vacation rentals getting an
apartment we're staying here an apartment this time and it's great we got bedrooms we
got laundry we got all kinds of stuff so you're going to go that way but trying to find a cheap
hotel or a meal price hotel that's good it's kind of tough so stick to hostels a written apartment
or go high price okay but it's kind of shocking where you know you could go from Germany or or
Austria you find like good middle price stuff and you don't have so much of that here now the
sixth thing you might shock you about Portugal is their concept of time going out to lunch yes
that's going to be two hours going out to dinner yes it could be a five hour Affair we went to go
have lunch with our friends in sintra the other day we ended up at their house for 11 hours
time in Portugal is quite relative okay so when someone tells you hey let's have dinner at seven
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in a minute they probably mean as eight or later okay so don't be surprised so if you
meet Portuguese people and they're really nice and they speak English really well and they invite you
to do something and they say let's meet at eight you you just say hi I'm from a country where eight
o'clock means 7 55 when should I be there okay so just do those things makes it make your life
a lot easier but the concept of time here does get some of the tourists upset because they're
always getting a coffee or having a cigarette or things like that now the seventh thing that
makes you talking about Portugal it may give you White Knuckles is the driving oh my goodness plus
like every Portuguese person has a little rally driver inside them and is going it doesn't matter
where you are in the country it's like little rally drivers everywhere and if you take taxis
which you will because they're nice and affordable here you will feel that oh my God I'm going to die
feeling and the thing is yes they do Drive kind of crazy here and they drive very fast but one
of the weird thing is is I found that if I'm in the crosswalk they actually do stop for me but if
I'm walking on the sidewalk and I get a little too close to the edge hey it gets a little closer hey
so be careful one if you're driving or if you've got little kids you keep them next to you all the
time okay because the drive in here is nuts like White Knuckle driving scared out for your life
in the taxi sometimes yes that can happen so just just know that all right now the eighth
thing that might shock you is when you come here to Lisbon you're gonna get somebody that offers
to sell you sunglasses and then you'll say no no I don't need sunglasses and then they'll say oh
hashish you want like marijuana or cocaine instead you're like whoa whoa that escalated quickly look
these people they're selling trying to sell you drugs they're not selling you real drugs anyway
and Portugal has decriminalized most drugs so the cops don't really do anything about it it's
just one of those little annoyances but just know if you're a tourist and that's the key locals say
I don't see this very often it's the tourists that get asked stand outside the Rosio station
where you go to Sentra there's a Starbucks there there's people selling drugs all the time we're
there with some friends of ours their son is 15 guy came up would you like some drugs like no
thank you I'm gonna go go take a train to Centra instead okay these kind of things okay I do ask
you marijuana just say no thanks because they're not selling you real drugs anyway it's all fake
anyway all right but it does kind of shock people and they've asked my mom who's you know a little
bit older than me if she wanted a drug she's like no thank you so that might shock you again
imagine you see somebody pull up to your mouth be like hell Mama you trying to get some cocaina oh
that ain't right more of a lisbon-centric thing now the ninth thing that might shock you when you
come here is how affordable Portugal is this is a cheap vacation to stay to eat to travel
it is extremely affordable it's at the hotel come here your money goes a lot farther you
know you get one of the small beers here it's a Euro okay that same small beer in Sweden is like
eight dollars all right so you do have a much better time here your money goes a lot farther
and you see a lot of tourists have started to see that so you get tons and tons of tourists
coming to Portugal now for these great prices so I tell people you know they're looking for a warm
easy place to go I say look Portugal is great A lot of the people speak English they're very
friendly they got great food and it's affordable so it's a great combination and there's direct
flights all over Europe and to the U.S from here so Philly Newark places like that it really makes
it a great place to go so you'll be shocked how affordable it is you're like well I can get all
this stuff did they did they miss something up no they didn't they got it right okay so
that kind of shocks people how affordable it is here and then the 10th thing that might shock you
when you're here is you'll see the cobblestones here in Portugal these little tiny squares put
together you know and they have designs and stuff like that and it's beautiful but the thing is they
can be slick as snot so if you're here and you got you see the water coming on me this is from
the fountain this stuff can get very slick and if you're wearing high heels and stuff like that it
can be very dangerous so just be careful with the slippery pavement because I've seen many a
tourists go whoops and fall on their butt on the slippery pavement now it doesn't always rain here
in Portugal so it's not a big issue but just pay attention because it can get very slick and if
there's dog poop there you know it'll obviously be slick too so that'll do it for you anyway
those are 10 things that I think that might shock you about visiting Portugal what are some things
that shocked you about visiting Portugal please put in the comments section visitors more shocks
um if you like I haven't visited yet I actually want to visit Portugal as soon as possible because
um you know like I've seen a lot of positive things about Portugal like obviously everything
in Portugal cannot be positive but I've seen a lot of positive things about it and I would love
to visit Portugal you know yeah I'm literally in northern Europe right now Finland so it should be
you know real different over there and um yeah it would be a nice little experience I can't
wait to actually start traveling but travel is just scary for me now because it's so expensive
back in America traveling you know you get on a plane it's like 150 whatever you know
next city whatever or state I should say um but I I just I just don't know travel in Europe just
scares me because I don't know anything here so scares me but um yeah one day maybe but
either ways guys um thank you for watching and let me know what y'all you know would think or
have experience as a culture shock in Portugal and what you think you know others would experience in
Portugal as a culture shot in the comment section down below but for now guys Mata here peace