His holiness, the Dalai Lama, was supposed to inaugurate the first Oriental garden (and one of the biggest ones in the world) in Portugal, Bombarral (Quinta dos Loridos), but unfortunately he didn’t. (don’t know why – lost his number). Joe Berardo (a portuguese millionaire. ps – joe is not a portuguese name…he’s just stupid) bought [...]
Posts Tagged ‘portugal’
27 Sep
Regaleira
I’ve been there and done that. Well, i did all of that now that I put my Indiana Jones hat on and lit a torch to enter the caves of Regaleira. I tried several times before with my phone’s light but it didn’t quite work. This time it did, but I got way too scared [...]
1 Sep
Pena Palace (Sintra.part II)
It’s difficult to show your own country to a foreigner. Among the thousands of cool places you think you know in your hometown you have to chose just 2 or 3 to show to your friend that came from England. Last week was downtown Lisbon, today it was Sintra, of course. Of course because Sintra [...]
26 Aug
Monserrate Palace
…and I thought I knew every monument in Sintra… guess what? This one was missing (yes, I will visit all the others soon, and yes, I will make posts about them soon too!), mainly because it is very well hidden into the forest. Or perhaps, just because I always thougth it wasn’t worth it of [...]
21 Jul
Medieval Fair at Óbidos
Weeeeeeeeeeee The annual mediavel fair at Óbidos, a tiny village that archeology dates back to 208BC, has arrived! In my opinion it is one the best medieval recriations that you can find in the country! And one of the biggest! I go there every year and it wasn’t an expection this year. Good as always, [...]
9 Jul
Inside the caves, no bats!
This was not the point of today’s trip. We drove around Portugal for 4 hours trying to find Serra d’aire but that turned out to be an impossible mission. You can imagine that 4 hours later we were (me and H.) very very fed up of all this driving and all we wanted was to [...]
24 May
The city of the seven hills
Well, as you might have already noticed this is the city where I was born, 21 years ago. It’s difficult for me to write a post about Lisbon because there’s so many things and want you to see. ‘Hmmm’ – I thought, if I climb São Jorge’s Castle I can show everybody all those beautiful [...]
