There isn't that much recent stuff on the net about the Lisbon street scene, which I took as a good sign. It does not take a mathematical genius to work out that if the high end model-types ain't getting much more than 50 euro for an hour of three-hole fun then the street girls are going to be priced somewhere close to Thai or Filipina levels. There isn't much on the net about the street scene because there isn't much of an obvious street scene in Lisbon.
The city is built on a series of hills cut by wide boulevards that are a bit boring to wander along. But get away from these main arteries, you end up in quaint narrow alleys that weave around the hills and occasionally cut upwards in wild vertical ascents, sometimes aided along by trams despite being in my sixth decade I walked everywhere.
The downside being that you often had no idea where you were in relation to the rest of the city, the narrow alleyways and towering three to six storey buildings closing the world out. A couple of times I got completely lost and ended up on a hour long trek to get back to where I wanted to be⦠it was the kind of walk that would have my ex Thai girlfriend fuming being free of shopping alternatives at the loss of face and idiotic foreigner who reckoned walking ten miles a day was good for his heart and body.
The city is criss-crossed by a cheap Metro system that even runs from the airport a laughably cheap 1. They always have a useful map on the entrance though I often found Portuguese signage either completely wrong or vague including those at the international airport β whilst driving standards were fine and they didn't use crossings as a target for whacking foreigners, not sure if it was a city I would care to navigate by car.
It is a great city for walking, though, as long as your lungs are up to near vertical ascents and you don't mind a quite clammy humidity it was 22 degrees in early November, which was hot enough for me after the UK. Plenty of cops standing around doing nothing playing with their phones for the most part , many armed.
