Lisbon Like a Local: A City Break Discovering Portugal's History, Culture and Food

After (a light) breakfast, you will meet your foodie guide for a three-hour gastronomic tour of Lisbon. Heading back to the cobbled streets of Chiado and Baixa, you will discover more of the city's culinary culture and how ingredients from the country's former colonies helped shaped the distinctive flavours. Beginning with more pasteis de nata and an espresso, a staple of the Lisbon mid-morning snack, as the clock ticks towards lunch time you will move onto that other staple of Portuguese cuisine - fish. Heading to a local market, you will learn about the myriad ways fish is prepared, before delving deeper into other aspects of Portuguese culinary wizardry, including the many unknown (and underrated) cheeses.

The rest of the day is yours to explore the city, and to walk off the over-indulgence to make room for one final dinner in Portugal. There's plenty of glorious architecture to admire as you wander but also keep an eye out for the city's street art, often on a massive (sometimes several storey tall) scale, with canvasses by artists such as local hero Vhils and Brazilian twins Os Gemeos.

Your expert guide will meet you at your hotel and together you will hop on the train for the forty-minute journey to Sintra, just like the locals. The former summer playground of aristocrats and millionaires is a veritable smorgasbord of architectural styles through the ages, from Moorish to Manueline and Mudejar - and that only covers styles beginning with an 'M' - and with your guide you will spend the next four hours unravelling the complex and fascinating history of the town.

At the end of your tour, you will be met by your driver and bags at the train station for a 20-minute private transfer to the airport. Your flight will leave in the evening, landing back in the UK two-and-a-half-hours later.