Soft Landing: Your First Day in Lisbon
The day-one walk we wish someone had given us: how the city works, where locals shop and how to get your basics sorted.

Bonfim or Matosinhos, river or sea? Four areas of Porto matched to how you want to live.
Porto is smaller than Lisbon but its neighbourhoods change fast from one hill to the next. From your brief we choose four areas, from creative Bonfim and Cedofeita to Matosinhos by the sea or Gaia across the river.
We walk each one at a normal weekday rhythm, check transport to the centre, look at cafés where people work on laptops and talk honestly about rents, damp and winter light.
The day-one walk we wish someone had given us: how the city works, where locals shop and how to get your basics sorted.
Moving here? We visit four neighbourhoods picked from your brief, at the hours you would actually live in them.
A day to see what life costs and feels like an hour from Lisbon: a city with a castle, a market town and a fishing village on the Atlantic.