Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisboa

There is a Social Service to advice students about how to get an accomodation but what they offered us/me was living with a family, which didn´t fit with was I wanted.

I would say Bairro Alto is the best area to have a nice coffee watching people walking around... and also the hot-spot of Lisbon night life. Portas Longas in Rua Altamira is the best place to go for a beer while you listen to fados and talk to people (everybody talks to everybody there... I don´t know what they put in the drinks. And Miradouro da Graça is an unavoidable place to have a coffee with Lisbon at your feet on a sun set.

You can find some photos I took in Lisbon at: http://www.dreamwater.com/inesgalba/lisboa.htm and some personal (and highly subjective) impresions, in spanish only, sorry, at: http://www.dreamwater.com/inesgalba/IMPRESIONES.htm

I could only speak some phrases in portuguese before I went there, and most of them I had taken from lyrics of fados and brazilian music, but people from Lisbon are so patient and curious about foreign peole that I hardly could avoid to learn the language ;)

I would say it´s rather difficult to find cheap accomodation in the heart of Lisbon even when the appartments were old and sometimes ancient, but it always depend on what are your preferences.