The Travel section in this weekend’s Globe and Mail carries Gemma Bowes’ feature on surfing holidays in Portugal’s Figueira da Foz(link is to The Guardian where the article first appeared) which we visited in 2008.…
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Photo: Lisboans visit the two-week Book Festival set up near the Gulbenkian Museum last June. Yesterday afternoon, as a lovely antidote to the first department meeting of this new term, the Poetry Reading Group comprising…
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I still have one last post to write on eating in Paris, but since my focus has been on Portugal and Lisbon over recent posts, I thought you might like to see what we loved…
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I’m trying to write a little piece on style/fashion, but I’m rethinking and revising and cutting out big sections, so it will be a while. Meanwhile, I noticed this in this morning’s news and am…
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My creation, originally uploaded by materfamilias knits. Here’s another mosaic — as Patricia suggested in yesterday’s comments, sunshine is an integral part of Lisbon’s beauty, and the ubiquitous yellow walls intensifies its uplifting effects. I…
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