My hometown is not very big. It is considered a city but that’s for Portuguese standards. Usually there’s not much going on there that gets the rest of the country’s, or even its own inhabitants’, attention. Except for one thing: Carnaval. I think I could barely walk when my parents started dragging me to the [...]
Monumento aos Combatentes do Ultramar
Avenida de Brasília
1400 Lisboa, Portugal
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When most kids nowadays think about bookstores, they most likely think of the big stores like Barnes & Noble, FNAC, or even virtual ones like Amazon. I mean, I can’t blame them, they’re accessible, easy to browse through and affordable, although books don’t tend to vary much in price from store to store. Maybe I [...]
Did you ever see the movie The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp? If not, have a look at it then, because it will give you the vibe of what it is to visit the Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra (it’s featured in the movie). Sometimes I actually mix up the images from that movie with [...]
When it opened for the Expo ‘98, it was really difficult to get inside the Oceanarium. At that time known as the Oceans Pavilion. The lines were huge because some people thought there were babies swimming inside; you would have to wait for at least one hour to get inside and because there were so many [...]
Villa Nova de Gaia, although a separate town from Porto proper, is home to all the major Port cellars in Portugal. Ricardo already described a morning touring the Croft cellars, so this is a sort of continuation of where we suggest you have lunch afterwards – Bogani Café.
The restaurant is located downhill from the wine cellars, [...]
I once had an awkward moment with a girl I met in Seattle when I asked her a personal question and instead of answering she changed the subject to “when I was in Portugal I tasted the Port wine and it was really nice”. Apart from being passive-aggressive, she was right. If you go to [...]
Santa Cruz Beach
Map of Location – Google Maps
Penedo do Guincho – Flickr
Portugal is the home of some of the most passionate and beautiful music in the world – the fado. The exact origin of fado is unknown (slave music, seafarers’ laments, Moorish songs?), although it can be traced to the early 1800s. The word fado actually means “fate,” so, as you might be able to imagine, [...]
