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Travel Blogs from Lisbon
From Bread to Fado
... paper, was it white for no1, and black for no2? Needless to say we were in stitches for a long time, and all of that about toilet paper. Another laughing matter was that both Veronica and I stole a piece of the black toilet paper to show the men.
The "Padrao dos Descobrimentos," or Monument of Discovery was really something to see... it was really impressive, 220 steps, or 8 stories high. In my terms, very high... Anything higher than the hight of the sidewalk is ...
Lisbon
... then on to the small touristy beach town of Cascais before heading back to Lisbon. The following day had me going to the town of Fatima, which is a famous town because 3 young children in 1917 claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nowadays it’s filled with religious tourists on a pilgrimage. The next stop on the tour had us at the Monastery in Batalha, which contains the tomb of Prince Henry the Navigator who was responsible for many of ...
Lovely Lisbon
... only by a few well rehearsed sentences about main monuments and churches and his constant drilling of people at random to count to 10 in Portuguese. He also said that Sydney is the real Australia at one point which didn't go down well with me at all. Regardless, favourite points of interest from the walking tour included: was the facade of the church than burned down in the earthquake, at a square full of jacarandas (until this point i had been calling ...
Manicure in the metro-car
... 1082; стары 84; друзь 03;м – жена-х 086;зяйка приме 90; заказ, муж-хо 079;яин пожар 80;т на гриле сарди ...
Back Home (Part I): The return
... a cavalo, do pãozinho com manteiga, da imperial (do piloto automático no fornecimento à mesa), da bica e da “continha” (com o gesto a assinalar), do “bruah” de restaurante, da roda dos amigos que por muitas vezes, durante este tempo, teriam certamente transformado certo momentos mono-cromados em explosões de cor, de riso, com aquele olhar, aquele riso. A vida continua a ser um lugar maravilhoso, especialmente quando regressamos a casa.
Saudades.
Saudade.
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