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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-29 21:48:54
May 29 2014 20:27 GMT
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I'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and instead have been replaced by colourful stone paths winding through random sections of small, yet confusing parks containing hidden exits and minimal signs.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!

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If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Cokefreak
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland8095 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-29 20:31:59
May 29 2014 20:31 GMT
#2
I don't think most of those are actually sidewalks though Nice blog nevertheless, enjoy the trip!
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-29 20:36:41
May 29 2014 20:36 GMT
#3
Haha, true, true, but it's the closest thing(s) to a sidewalk because if you don't walk on the above then you're walking in the center of the road here
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Deleted User 123474
Profile Joined November 2010
292 Posts
May 29 2014 21:15 GMT
#4
Wow. I'm so jealous right now. Nice pics.

I have been told of the narrow streets in old European cities, but that's even more extreme than I expected!
Oboeman
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada3980 Posts
May 29 2014 22:21 GMT
#5
get out of the gutter!
ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
May 29 2014 22:35 GMT
#6
I love old cities, I need to get to south america to see some of the roads the incas built.
vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
May 29 2014 22:42 GMT
#7
Wow that place looks amazing! I'll put it on my list of places to visit.
I used to play random, but for you I play very specifically.
loginn
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
France815 Posts
May 29 2014 23:23 GMT
#8
Are you coming to france soon ? If you happen to go to brittany, come and say hi :D
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Yorbon
Profile Joined December 2011
Netherlands4272 Posts
May 30 2014 02:24 GMT
#9
The second picture is quite skyrim-ish.

Amazing pics
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
May 30 2014 05:03 GMT
#10
What are you talking about? They look great! :D
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
May 30 2014 07:02 GMT
#11
On May 30 2014 08:23 loginn wrote:
Are you coming to france soon ? If you happen to go to brittany, come and say hi :D

Was in paris last week for 4th nights and will be back in france staying in Nice later this week. Brittany looked/sounded like an amazing place but unfortunately I snipped it out of the trip due tk my budget :/
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
mordek
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States12704 Posts
May 30 2014 18:00 GMT
#12
Looks awesome, enjoy yourself
It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides. Tiberius77 | Mordek #1881 "I took a mint!"
Arrian
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States889 Posts
May 30 2014 19:58 GMT
#13
To be fair, the sidewalks get better in the busier areas but it is pretty annoying.
Writersator arepo tenet opera rotas
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
May 30 2014 20:34 GMT
#14
Yeah they weren't bad everywhere, but still pretty apparent in a lot of places. The areas with larger pedestrian traffic were typically better as you noted, though many streets in Europe (so far) are noticeably more narrow than North America.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50324 Posts
May 31 2014 00:52 GMT
#15
I don't get it. People are actually supposed to walk on sidewalks? The concept seems very foreign to me.
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