• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 12:17
CEST 18:17
KST 01:17
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Team TLMC #5 - Finalists & Open Tournaments0[ASL20] Ro16 Preview Pt2: Turbulence10Classic Games #3: Rogue vs Serral at BlizzCon9[ASL20] Ro16 Preview Pt1: Ascent10Maestros of the Game: Week 1/Play-in Preview12
Community News
BSL 2025 Warsaw LAN + Legends Showmatch0Weekly Cups (Sept 8-14): herO & MaxPax split cups4WardiTV TL Team Map Contest #5 Tournaments1SC4ALL $6,000 Open LAN in Philadelphia8Weekly Cups (Sept 1-7): MaxPax rebounds & Clem saga continues29
StarCraft 2
General
#1: Maru - Greatest Players of All Time Weekly Cups (Sept 8-14): herO & MaxPax split cups Team Liquid Map Contest #21 - Presented by Monster Energy SpeCial on The Tasteless Podcast Team TLMC #5 - Finalists & Open Tournaments
Tourneys
RSL: Revival, a new crowdfunded tournament series Maestros of The Game—$20k event w/ live finals in Paris Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament SC4ALL $6,000 Open LAN in Philadelphia WardiTV TL Team Map Contest #5 Tournaments
Strategy
Custom Maps
External Content
Mutation # 491 Night Drive Mutation # 490 Masters of Midnight Mutation # 489 Bannable Offense Mutation # 488 What Goes Around
Brood War
General
Soulkey on ASL S20 BW General Discussion ASL20 General Discussion ASL TICKET LIVE help! :D NaDa's Body
Tourneys
[ASL20] Ro16 Group D [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [ASL20] Ro16 Group C BSL 2025 Warsaw LAN + Legends Showmatch
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Muta micro map competition Fighting Spirit mining rates [G] Mineral Boosting
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Borderlands 3 Path of Exile Nintendo Switch Thread General RTS Discussion Thread
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion LiquidDota to reintegrate into TL.net
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine UK Politics Mega-thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread
Fan Clubs
The Happy Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Linksys AE2500 USB WIFI keeps disconnecting Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread High temperatures on bridge(s)
TL Community
BarCraft in Tokyo Japan for ASL Season5 Final The Automated Ban List
Blogs
i'm really bored guys
Peanutsc
I <=> 9
KrillinFromwales
The Personality of a Spender…
TrAiDoS
A very expensive lesson on ma…
Garnet
hello world
radishsoup
Lemme tell you a thing o…
JoinTheRain
RTS Design in Hypercoven
a11
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 2045 users

Sidewalks in Sintra are...

Blogs > Grobyc
Post a Reply
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-29 21:48:54
May 29 2014 20:27 GMT
#1
+ Show Spoiler +
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...

[image loading]
allow for 1 lane of pedestrian traffic... 1 way...

[image loading]
similarly to their castles

[image loading]
require you to still need to walk with 1 foot on the road

[image loading]
will give you a hard time fitting a single foot on the sidewalk

[image loading]
are home to tree remains...

[image loading]
or sometimes a still living tree

[image loading]
...and it's family further down the road

[image loading]
... who sometimes hassle you from above

[image loading]
covered by the road

[image loading]
have water running over them

[image loading]
have large holes in them

[image loading]
to the point where you need to jump

[image loading]
are buried beneath someone's front steps

[image loading]
are used as parking lanes

[image loading]
often just don't exist...

[image loading]
and instead have been replaced by colourful stone paths winding through random sections of small, yet confusing parks containing hidden exits and minimal signs.

+ Show Spoiler +
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)


+ Show Spoiler +
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!

****
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
Stephano, Taking skill to the bank since IPL3. Also Lucifron and FBH
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 BLUES50389 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.
Brood War EICWoo Jung Ho, never forget.| Twitter: @BLinDRawR
TL+ Member
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 17h 43m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
SpeCial 152
mcanning 116
ProTech89
JuggernautJason60
UpATreeSC 19
Codebar 6
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 31538
Bisu 3372
Horang2 2597
EffOrt 1085
Mini 455
Hyuk 401
ZerO 400
Light 346
Soulkey 204
Soma 164
[ Show more ]
hero 148
Rush 123
ggaemo 96
Snow 93
Hyun 69
Mind 58
Aegong 37
Free 35
sorry 28
ToSsGirL 26
JYJ24
Terrorterran 24
Yoon 21
scan(afreeca) 14
IntoTheRainbow 10
Sexy 10
Dota 2
Gorgc7208
qojqva3567
Dendi1111
XcaliburYe181
League of Legends
Trikslyr51
Counter-Strike
ScreaM841
fl0m246
oskar191
markeloff144
Other Games
gofns30235
tarik_tv22673
FrodaN583
Mlord483
Lowko370
RotterdaM250
Hui .232
byalli223
ArmadaUGS127
QueenE70
NeuroSwarm38
ZerO(Twitch)21
Organizations
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 17 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• poizon28 19
• Kozan
• sooper7s
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Migwel
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
StarCraft: Brood War
• FirePhoenix13
• Michael_bg 7
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
Dota 2
• WagamamaTV366
League of Legends
• Nemesis4387
• TFBlade583
Other Games
• Shiphtur211
Upcoming Events
RSL Revival
17h 43m
Zoun vs Classic
Map Test Tournament
18h 43m
Korean StarCraft League
1d 10h
BSL Open LAN 2025 - War…
1d 15h
RSL Revival
1d 17h
Reynor vs Cure
BSL Open LAN 2025 - War…
2 days
RSL Revival
2 days
Online Event
2 days
Wardi Open
3 days
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
[ Show More ]
Sparkling Tuna Cup
4 days
LiuLi Cup
5 days
The PondCast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2025-09-10
Chzzk MurlocKing SC1 vs SC2 Cup #2
HCC Europe

Ongoing

BSL 20 Team Wars
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 3
BSL 21 Points
ASL Season 20
CSL 2025 AUTUMN (S18)
LASL Season 20
RSL Revival: Season 2
Maestros of the Game
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1

Upcoming

2025 Chongqing Offline CUP
BSL World Championship of Poland 2025
IPSL Winter 2025-26
BSL Season 21
SC4ALL: Brood War
BSL 21 Team A
Stellar Fest
SC4ALL: StarCraft II
EC S1
ESL Impact League Season 8
SL Budapest Major 2025
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.