8:00pm- The woman with the fur coat is also harbouring a cold (surmised based on her constant throat clearing, not the fact that she’s wearing a fur coat), and chatting incessantly in Portugese to someone on the phone, which she…
Camino Culture: Pontevedra and Santiago de Compostela
Heading north from Portugal, I stopped for a couple of nights in Pontevedra, Spain. I was there to experience the urbanism from a city that has won multiple awards for its measures of restricting cars from the city centre, being…
Amarante: A Sleepy Portugese Village with a Love of Noise
After the unexpectedly boisterous streets of Lisbon during Ramadan, I was looking forward to a couple of quiet nights in Amarante, a “sleepy village” according to Lonely Planet, about an hour east of Porto. It’s also known as the village…