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A Beautiful Door
I took these pictures today with my-not-i-phone, filtered nicely with the VSCO Cam app. It’s a door that belongs to a quinta (country house) across the road from my local shopping centre. I’ve passed...
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Porto’s Ribeira By VSCO
Praça da Ribeira Porto was like a steam cooker last night! We met visiting friends for dinner and ate outside in Ribeira (waterfront). Porto is still in the thick of tourist season and the narrow...
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Ciao For Now, Poland
I’m posting this from Munich Airport, after leaving Warsaw at 4:30 this afternoon to fly home to Porto via Lisbon. After a packed agenda all week and travelling back to Warsaw from Poznan before the...
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Quirky Portugal
Renova toilet paper vending machine (Mar Shopping, Matosinhos) If you already follow my Instagram account, you’ve seen these before (or maybe not). But since these first two are from tonight, I thought...
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Portuguese For Everyone
I got a call this morning near lunchtime. It went something like this: “I’m speaking to Gail? You registered in Portuguese language classes.” “Yes, weren’t they supposed to start in September?”...
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Street Art In Porto
I didn’t bring my camera with me last weekend, which was a shame because my mother-in-law made a chestnut cake (an excellent Portuguese Kitchen opportunity missed!) and I saw street art all over Porto...
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My Favourite Portuguese Foods, 2014 Edition
my Portuguese Food & Drink board on Pinterest It’s probably all the Portuguese language classes, but I’m reminded on a fairly regular basis — OK, daily — how quickly my memory is eroding now that...
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Soupy Saturday
I can only show mobile phone shots today due to the amount of rain that fell, a hostile environment for sensitive camera equipment. My phone is also sensitive equipment, but at least I could shelter...
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International Day of Monuments and Sites (April 18): Serralves Night Tour
We try to participate in as many cultural events as we can in Porto (and travel to others), but it would truly be impossible to make them all. It’s a good problem to have! It’s one of the reasons why...
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Hazul Street Art Map Of Porto
I was in Porto this afternoon with Ice and remembered just before heading back home to stop by DaVinci Art Gallery to see if there were any Hazul street art maps available. It was announced a week or...
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Surprises At The Market
Today's Surprise #1: the vendor who I buy vegetarian alheira from at Mercado de Matosinhos has a mini kitchen behind his stand where he cooks lunch. Today he showed me how to cook ray!...
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Street Art In Porto
I didn’t bring my camera with me last weekend, which was a shame because my mother-in-law made a chestnut cake (an excellent Portuguese Kitchen opportunity missed!) and I saw street art all over Porto...
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My Favourite Portuguese Foods, 2014 Edition
my Portuguese Food & Drink board on Pinterest It’s probably all the Portuguese language classes, but I’m reminded on a fairly regular basis — OK, daily — how quickly my memory is eroding now that...
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Soupy Saturday
I can only show mobile phone shots today due to the amount of rain that fell, a hostile environment for sensitive camera equipment. My phone is also sensitive equipment, but at least I could shelter...
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A Serralves Night Tour
We try to participate in as many cultural events as we can in Porto (and travel to others), but it would truly be impossible to make them all. It’s a good problem to have! It’s one of the reasons why...
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Hazul Street Art Map Of Porto
I was in Porto this afternoon with Ice and remembered just before heading back home to stop by DaVinci Art Gallery to see if there were any Hazul street art maps available. It was announced a week or...
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Today's Surprise #1: the vendor who I buy vegetarian alheira from at Mercado de Matosinhos has a mini kitchen behind his stand where he cooks lunch. Today he showed me how to cook ray!...
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Two Years of Ice
We would celebrate Ice the Dog’s birthday if we knew when it was, but the vet had to estimate his age based on when his baby canine fell out — almost as soon as he landed at Casa Aguiar two years ago,...
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Carnation Day
Today is a national holiday in Portugal: 25 de Abril, aka Day of Liberty, Carnation Day, Revolution Day. On this day in 1974, the authoritarian regime, Estado Novo (established in 1933), was...
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July 2017: A Week In Photos
My moratorium on posting phone pictures here? Short-lived, apparently. Because when I’m showing around visitors and have Ice the Dog with me, it’s tough to hold a big camera, too. Here’s a curated...
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