Get Lost Go Local

Name: Get Lost Go Local
Address: Alfama, PT
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Explore the city as a Lisboan, do what locals do and have a genuine experience in Lisbon. http://getlostgolocal.wordpress.com I was big in Hong-Kong!

Get Lost, Go local was founded 2012, after helping two Hong-Kong journalists discovering the secret hidden spots of Lisbon. I showed them the places, the views, local food, history, nightlife, trends and told them who we are as Lisboans. Results came some months later in a weekly magazine… wow!!! The article about Lisbon was a great work with excellent photos about our beautiful city. I started receiving emails with requests to provide walking tours in a few weeks... the rest of the story you know already! Get Lost, Go Local is not a normal walking tour company, it's more a concept. It's how you travel and discover the city through the eyes of a local. I believe this is the best way of experience the local culture. Take a tour with a local person as your guide, and discover all the hidden secret spots of Lisbon.

08/10/2026

It’s been over one year. There was a construction site next door, supposedly the plan was a 3 storey apartment building with a few levels under the ground for garage. Nothing much - that’s what I’ve been told by a local resident, she knew that the licences issued by the town hall didn’t approved all that digging due to the nature of the old town, but somehow it was on the way to be concluded.
The pressure, the lack of proper foundations (we’re talking about buildings from 1850-1900) and the conditions of this steep hill itself, plus the whole town is on top of existing structures and spoils of the big 1755 earthquake, making it very difficult to predict what you’ll find under the ground. All of that combined affected the nearby buildings making the one next door to collapse - only by luck there weren’t casualties.
Lisbon being Lisbon, Real estate developers being Real estate developers, there’s money to be made and a lot of things are changing faster than we could imagine. What about the residents? Still no way out from this. It’s all in court, still waiting…. Several families were affected and moved out and you can still see a slice of building showing pieces of furniture, lamps, photos hanging in the walls… It seems like a very twisted Barbie House 🏡 hopefully it doesn’t take long before families go back to their beloved home.

30/09/2026

Queluz de Baixo, suburb of Lisbon, 2026. Could be a photo from 1986, but it’s not. The noise, the amount of cars, people rushing to their jobs across town driving their cars every morning to come back around 6:30/7pm to pick the kids from afterschool maybe getting a take out because there’s no time to cook and it’s getting late… tough to find good things to write in the post, but Queluz and the surroundings always seemed like an attractive place to live until the big boom. The growing families moved to places outside the city, like we all did, and the suburbs that were nothing but villages, became cities. There are around 4000 inhabitants in Queluz de Baixo, a few jobs in services and what’s left of some heavy industry, the nearest train station can’t be reached by foot, a bus takes 1h to reach Lisbon. I’ve done that for 12 years and I was counting the dates to escape. The crowds, the trains in strike, the horrible traffic and the lack of green, that was the worst. A place to relax become the living room, and the tv was our window to the world - we were saving money to get our. Oh, it’s me being melodramatic. No. It was sad and depressive, and many of our friends were depressed even though they called it another thing, they blame it on another football loss, Monday, low income, unemployment , the 5 months of grey skies that we got used to were rainier than in Dublin. Damn. Glad I jumped out of that train. Ah, but it’s better now… hopefully. Glad that the few friends that stayed behind or at least their parents can enjoy the suburbs. I’ve heard it’s safer, definitely it’s cleaner and with more services, some museums and interesting parks… The cities changes, the suburbs changes - I change too, every year, every day.
Now you know. But if you want to know a bit mor about our suburbs, book a tour! Lisbon B Side.
Is the other side of town the real town?

18/09/2026

Get Lost - And thank me later 😝🙌

11/09/2026

Just to remind you about the cost of gas in Portugal as today: 2,02€ / litre. That equals 7,92€ per Gallon / 9,19$ USD. Meanwhile, the minimum wage is not even 1000€ a month yet.
So… bananas. 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌 (bananas are maybe the cheapest fruits you can by - roughly 1,50€ the kilo although daily markets would sell it sometimes under that price.

30/08/2026

Time to go back. Tomorrow it’s time for another odyssey back home - 400km’s in what might be a farewell to my yellow car. There was a small problem (easily repaired with wire by my friend Miguel) just on time to watch the fireworks 💥 at Viana for the closing of the summer.
Time to drive my old car home.

26/08/2026

My favourite bridge in Portugal connecting Portugal and Galiza (Northwest Spain) was concluded in 1886 and is part of the Caminho de Santiago.
The cool part is when you’re driving an old car and you’re a Star Trek fan - suddenly the moment will be frozen in time. 🖖🏻 🪐 “Ahead Warp Factor 7, Mr Sulu”.

24/08/2026

When you find your favourite secret spot, keep it to yourself. It’s not about being selfish, it’s about keeping the place unknown so that locals can enjoy it again next summer, without crowds, without the trends and all the instagramers and posers. Here, where the water is always cold and the wind is always strong, the average tourist is already very far. And that’s wonderful for this planet. Explore but keep it to yourself and your inner circle of friends.

12/08/2026

Sol.

24/07/2026

Would you do it again? Driving that old car, knowing that it’s slow, you won’t have enough power to overtake, there’s no air con, it’s noisy, you’ll take forever to arrive…
Well, the aim was to see if not only I but also the car could survive the extra long 8h trip of nearly 400km’s ( it seemed never ending).
But honestly, leaving the nostalgia and the romantic on the side, it’s not for everyone. Modern humans won’t tolerate a long trip without air con, assisted steering, automatic gearbox, a place to charge their phones (yep - I made it to the destination with only 6% left on my phone battery and cheating with Waze when I ended up taking one of the worst roads I ever drove), there’s a lot of road noise, things that shake, fumes from nearby exhaust that enter the claustrophobic cabin, lack of power to overtake or even to end a steep hill above 70km/h (under 45miles/h)… But yeah, despite the roughness it worth every kilometre.
No Assisted Brake, No Airbags, No Assisted Steering, No Navigation System, No Smartphone charger, No Aircon, still arrived with less than a full tank of gas (35€ for 400 miles). I hardly could reach 90 km/h which was good in 1970, but not anymore. My car is a yellow Renault 4L with over 220000km’s and only 34HP (845cc3).

20/07/2026

The city that once was my city, is now flooded with international brands, empty and soulless. The old Avenida da República was once a place packed with local 9-6 workers from nearby offices walking to the park or@having lunch in one of the family run restaurants. There were financial companies like Ernst & Young and Deloitte nearby, several banks and all sorts of companies from insurance to medical care, hundreds of small corner shops (restaurants, snack bars, coffeeshops, bookstores…). Sadly, the new trends are more into creating services for the tourists (yep, they’re here too), making this part of town a highway of emptiness. Closed shops side by side with new business like Honest Greens, fancy Italian restaurants with Budweiser logo... what happened???
There’s still a working Cinema (maybe the last of his kind in Lisbon: Nimas est. 1975), not sure how they can resist without people, but glad they do survive. Prices are absolutely crazy even in old historical restaurants like Versailles. It’s the sign of times, they say… soon they’ll close the doors too because without locals supporting the business during low season, the only option would be to close down. Versailles had some of the best meat croquettes in the whole town (toe to toe with Tico-Tico and maybe an inch away from Gambrinus - still the best around), and the yummiest chocolate mousse. But since prices were almost bizarre, me and my wife had to go for something cheaper. It’s a shame… but we had to let it go. Sorry Versailles, but you can’t charge 25€ for a meal. I don’t eat often in Lisbon anymore, it’s not for me and I was disgusted and disappointed by seeing one of my favourite spots following the easy way.

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