Get Lost Go Local

Name: Get Lost Go Local
Address: Alfama, PT
Telephone: +351962900148

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Get Lost Go Local

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 re

ceiving 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.

07/06/2026

Awesome atmosphere in the old Estádio National do Jamor near Lisbon. The big party was not a reflex of the match. 2 red cards in the beginning turn the friendly into a boring and sleepy 10 vs 10 for nearly 90’. CR7 aka Cristiano Ronaldo scored, in what became the 1st, only and last goal that I saw him score live in a stadium. Not sure if at 41y old he will still play after the next World Cup, so yeah… we saw him score a goal, but he was offside and the goal wasn’t validated 🫣😩 I’m not the biggest fan and he’s not my favourite player. He’s a master athlete and his skills are not human, but his ego and attitude are already too much. Still, he’s a living legend. What’s totally unbelievable is how crazy his fan base is as the stadium was full of tourists and instagramers looking for the best photo.

28/05/2026

Yep. Things I miss from another glúten tolerant life. A good sande de panado de porco, our schnitzel. For nearly 1 year it was my lunch, with a fruit juice and a soup. The cost in 2000 was around 6€ for everything, now the sandwich alone costs nearly that.
That panado was actually in a place discovered by German friends from Würtzburg. Local life, local food, local prices. It’s unbelievable what you get in return if you dare to explore and avoid the city Center. If you were in Bad Bunny’s concert yesterday, the food trucks around the stadium are usually great, but nothing compared to this.

22/05/2026

Here’s Dona Dulce Soares, working in the daily market of Benfica, one of the few surviving (not Time Out) markets of Lisbon. There are sword fishes, sea bass, mackerels, octopus and munkfish. (considered the poor man’s lobster). Although Portugal has a very high fish consumption, monkfish is not a favourite fish for the majority (specially young people would stay out the moment they will take a closer look). Yep. Not very pretty, yep, specially the shape of the fish and the stranger deep sea monster look doesn’t bring good feelings.
Dona Dulce lacks the strength to prepare the fish for me, so she asked someone younger to help. She’s working in the market since at least 1975. It’s a tough job and she could be already retired, but I’m glad she’s still active and working. She’s a walking encyclopaedia on fish. I asked her to prepare the e fish for me so I could cook a monkfish rice and a soup, her friend did the hard job and was also very helpful. If you have a bit of time, go to a market in the early morning, get a handful of fresh fruits and vegetables and if you want to go the extra mile, be brave and buy fresh fish. Fishmongers are there to help and explain you how to prepare the fish once at home, and believe me - they’re so much tastier than their frozen cousins…

18/05/2026

Bora Belém! 💪🩵 hopefully soon, after a decade (I lost the sense of time) we’ll be back. My club (Clube de Futebol “Os Belenenses”) founded in 1919 had a terrible decision a few years ago of selling the majority of the stake to a private investor. The historical club that once was measuring forces with the biggest European clubs from Barcelona to Bayern Munich had to go down the abyss back to the lowest regional leagues after that toxic relationship that was turning the club into a Frankenstein of obscure interests and eventually money laundry. After 8 years the club has the chance to finally get one league closer to the 1st Portuguese division. There will be 2 matches against Farense (Algarve Team) from division 2. The outcome could be the return of Belenenses to the 2nd league, hopefully bringing more visibility and soon a decent investor (lessons learned now?). Against the modern football, petrodollars and dirty money, since 1919 and still kicking. On last Sunday match we beat Mafra for 3-1. Bora Belém!!!!! (And yep, it’s a Bifana!) 🩵💪

11/05/2026

If you know you know. Sill enjoying Lisbon despite the whole gentrification thing. This is still the most beautiful Lisbon’s street, no matter what happens in the future.

23/04/2026

Unfortunately not anymore (everything’s in the right place). The parking meter is in the worst possible place, blocking the view and hiding the beautiful blue tiled building. The old cobblestones will be next due to both tourists and new locals aka expats aka rich emigrants complains (I know it’s slick has holes and it’s expensive to repair). The pillars blocking the wild car parking, are obviously sign of the times. The city however feels safer today, has better transportation system, more services (but not for us locals) and looks instagramable. if you take a closer look, the old shops are closing one by one, and today was the 1st time that I genuinely struggle to find a place for a proper old school under 1€ espresso. The soul is gone. This city is not for us.

23/01/2026

Yep, Ingrid is mad and soon we’ll have snow in unusual places, a few roads and schools closed, a bit more traffic than usual, but it’s normal. Winter actually used to be colder here, and less rainy. If you’re in Portugal for a few days, hope you’re lucky with the weather, but it’s not time for beach days. Have a look at one of these museums:
1) Gulbenkian
2) Quake
3) Oceanário

31/12/2025

There’s no place like home, and home is where you feel in peace. See you in the other side!

29/12/2025

Exploring magical places in good company - What agreste hobby! Easily this breathtaking landscape could be feature in any Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings, Ah… the Shire! luckily, it escaped 🙌 and we can keep it just for ourselves. The good thing of getting older is that I tuned myself into a selfish prick when it comes to share locations and brag about this or that place - I might even take 2/3 people on a private tour, always bagging them for not to share locations (for the love of nature!). I don’t like crowds, I like silence and nature, rivers, forest, mountains, cold. The world is so beautiful without humans. 🙃May your hearts find peace and silence. Think about how you want to see this planet within 100 years and what can you do to make it better. 🙌 Tchau 2025, see you all next year! 🙌(btw, the guitar song is minnneeeeeee, it’s such a precious sooooong, we love our sooooong sooo so preciouuusss!!!) 😝

23/12/2025

Merry Xmas dear friends around the world!!! Please ask Santa for some peace and respect - Definitely things the world is missing nowadays… love you all!!! ❤️(it’s a repost from a few years ago… but it’s the only thing I want for Xmas: Peace in our planet).

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

Antony Bourdain

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