What to see, do and buy in Lisbon/Portugal?

Leaving for three weeks in twelve hours. With the little wife. This is sort of a belated honeymoon, so we're willing to spend a bit for quality.

We're staying at some hotel called Eden, which is smack in the middle of town, for the first four or five days, and we'll then decide on excursions by train or rental car.

I've never been to Portugal before, and beyond general knowledge, leafing through the Lonely Planet guide and some tentative googling, I know nothing.

Please help...

Thanks, will see it this coming week, I think we'll be taking a day trip there around the weekend.


Thanks! I've been lurking a bit lately again, but WTF what a busy year....that's my excuse...

Copied from other thread I stupidly made: I had a look at the finer antiques shops here, a lot of fine stuff, and some super, but nothing really spectactular yet. The antiquarian booksellers seem very good, I only looked in the windows of those. I've decided to work myself systematically through the ceramics museum and the military one, and do some hit-and-run visits to the others.

It's off to the Sunday flea-market tomorrow, you'll never learn as much about a place's history and values as when you see it's junk/antiques markets.

And yes, the Portuguese had colonies all over the place, it's an extraordinary mix of races here, - I've never seen more mixed-race couples anywhere, which is a good thing in itself, of course. Well just look what the mixing has done to the food...

A hell of a lot of insisting beggars, though.

Ah, I saw the post, but we had to choose between Sintra and Evora, and Sintra it was: Thanks! I'll try to get up to my old speed here... Yep, saw those, the funny thing about Sintra is really that it's been a resort for over a thousand years, - even the moors went there to cool down in the mountains when Lisbon got too hot. The palaces were great, Pena is closely related to my other Disneyesque favourite, Neuschwanstein, so I really enjoyed it. Yeah, saw the castle, amazing views and an impressive collection of cannons, particularly a huge bronze 16th century number. GQgeek - was the beef anything like this? This is a fairly regular steak, but with Brazilian-style coffee sauce, I had it three times over two weeks, just couldn't resist it. Pic of the street restaurant "Sud-Ouest" (that's the most efficient waiter I've ever seen to the right in the picture). Not exactly an upscale place, but really the best food we could find for the money. We paid literally fifteen times the amount in a "nicer" restaurant, and while even the nicer one was very cheap for what we got the one between the dumpsters in the street ruled. Didn't go to Porto, but the beaches just outside Lisbon were great: Had a lot! Stayed in town, I'm afraid (we did a lot of museums too). And besides, my wife is a rather serious foodie. The thing is, the country is cheap, even in the rather touristy capital, although I suppose the Algarve coast isn't.