Alfama Tram

I was recently digging through files from my 2021 trip to Portugal, and I realized I hadn’t shared this image here. In September of that year, I took my first trip to Portugal. I was excited to travel internationally again after not having been abroad in nearly a year and a half due to the pandemic. Covid numbers were very low, but there were still lots of travel restrictions and masks were obligatory in many spaces. Negative tests were needed to fly, and it was complicated as I traveled through the UK and Spain as well. To return to the United States, one needed a negative Covid test. So you go through the trip a little worried about what might happen with that final test and whether you might be stranded in a foreign country….but it ended up ok, and it was a very nice trip.

I spent several days in Lisbon, and tried to get out early each morning to photograph something around sunrise. I had seen a photo online, or maybe in a guide book, of a view in the Alfama neighborhood which had a church tower looming above a street. I saw tram tracks in the street, and thought it might be a good place to get a tram photo.

So, I walked there early one morning, and set and waited for a tram. As a tram came around the corner, I took this photo:

I was very happy with the way this turned out! It ended up being my favorite photo from Lisbon.

I’ll be sharing a lot more France photos in upcoming posts. I’m still trying to get through photos from Nice, plus I have more from a recent trip to Paris and Brittany.