EPTI'm currently in Sintra, Portugal, as part of my backpacking trip through Europe and I couldn't help but chuckle today as I walked throughout the town observing the... uh... lack of consistent sidewalks.
Sidewalks in Sintra...
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allow for 1 lane of pedestrian traffic... 1 way...
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similarly to their castles
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require you to still need to walk with 1 foot on the road
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will give you a hard time fitting a single foot on the sidewalk
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are home to tree remains...
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or sometimes a still living tree
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...and it's family further down the road
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... who sometimes hassle you from above
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covered by the road
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have water running over them
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have large holes in them
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to the point where you need to jump
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are buried beneath someone's front steps
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are used as parking lanes
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often just don't exist...
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and instead have been replaced by colourful stone paths winding through random sections of small, yet confusing parks containing hidden exits and minimal signs.
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Jokes/sidewalks aside, this place is still really beautiful and I would recommend visiting here if you are ever in Portugal and especially the Lisbon area (it's a 45 minute train ride that leaves from Lisbon every 25-ish minutes)
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I'll be making some kind of a huge blog at the end of my travels covering every place I visited most likely. This was just a fun thing I put together in my free time this afternoon 
Hope you enjoyed!
