During my week in Lisbon, I passed Rossio Station every day on my way from the hotel to the town centre. It’s a stunning building, particularly the entrance:
Sadly, there’s a Starbucks inside, you can make out the sign to the right if you look very closely. I’m not anti-Starbucks, per se, but, I mean, Portugal already has fabulous coffee and even more fabulous cakes. Does Starbucks really have anything to add…?!
Lady Of The Cakes 
That really is stunning, Starbucks or not.
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Luckily, it’s not obliterating the picture. Toledo could do with a Starbucks. Instead, it has a McDonald’s and a Burger King. Sigh.
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Both highly visible in that pretty square (I think) : (
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That’s their game. The Spanish are not doing themselves any favours, though, by having silly eating hours. Who wants to have lunch at 4? You need to provide meals when tourists are hungry, at the times when they are used to sit down to eat. MD and BK provide ‘food’ all day, and that’s a big part of their success in this country, I’m convinced.
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Yes it really IS a lovely entrance. I thought exactly the same about Starbucks 😦
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Do you have down your end? No Starbucks in Toledo as yet.
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There is a Starbucks at Málaga airport, but can’t think of one in the city. There aren’t any to the east of Málaga where I am – but there maybe some around Marbella. Sorry, I don’t really know the western end of the Costa del Sol.
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Starbucks has the worst tea in the world to add. Thankfully, we don’t have them in LV! Or Burger King, Subway, KFC, Dominos, Spar, Boots, M&S Food… why do I live here again? 😉
Nicest entrance to a train station, EVER 😉
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Boots…sigh… we so need them here. They have all these overpriced chemists filled to the rafters with expensive perfume that NOBODY I know can afford. I generally don’t understand the retail market in Spain and how it works. It definitely does NOT serve consumers.
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The shops here are more expensive than they are in Dublin yet people are on about a tenth of the money. Not sure how that works either! And now with the euro coming in, things are only going to get more expensive. Time for Expat Eye on …stan 😉 God, I love Boots!
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Stan…stead! There is a Boots.
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Is it better than Luton? My overriding memory of Luton is being the only white person there. And running into a glass door face first… it was quite the conversation starter in Greece. 🙂
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Luton is a dump. Stanstead is an airport. Steel, glass, shiny floors.
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More stuff to run into 😉
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With your credit card poised. Yes, Madam 🙂
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Actually, they don’t have free wifi in Stansted – assholes. I will not be living there!
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Lovely building and I agree … too bad about the Starbucks.
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Are there any where you are?
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None that I’m aware of. There may be some in the larger cities but I doubt it.
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I remember this building, I loved it – but had no idea it was a train station (I traveled to Lisbon from Madrid by an overnight bus and it was a veeeeeery bad idea)!
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Me neither, there’s no sign or anything denoting it as a train station. I only figured it out when I needed to take a train to Sintra.
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My beloved city 🙂
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Are you from Lisbon? Onde moras agora?
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What a great shot! And there is a lovely restaurant at the top of the building too, much better than Starbucks 🙂
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Now she tells me!
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