The humidity level seems like close to 150% All mirrors are steamed up and start to drip spontaneously; the labels slide off the beer bottles; a forgotten open book in the entrance slurps the moisture out of the air, causing the pages to curl. Oh, irony: it’s a cookbook, opened to a desert recipe called […]
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“Nah … às vezes, mas obrigado”, Hugo replies when I ask him if he ever eats tremoços. I bought some for the photo but I don’t eat them. I find them a bit bland but they’re still very popular everywhere. Hugo, all though portuguese, is too young to appreciate the tremoços. His father would know,
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Sorry. Wrong title. YOU are having a heatwave. Here in Portugal it’s lovely weather – that is to say: I like some clouds in the morning, and sun in the afternoon, around 25 º with a breeze. I guess lots of you are suffering a bit from the heat up there. So … here you
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We are doing well, thank you. We’re doing the spring cleaning. Cleaning inside and out, throwing away, planting little flowery plants, pruning trees. Washing curtains. Cleaning walls with high pressure, paint, scratch, paste, mow. “Yes! Broes (my son), they went out! Come on, we can go!” Of course, there are guests in the meantime, and
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I’m singin’ in the rain / just singin’ in the rain / what a glorious feeling / I’m happy again This spontaneously comes to mind when I lie in bed, and hear the rain singin’. At half past six in the morning I vaguely wake up and think: “What? Is it rainin’ again? “And just
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When I went outside yesterday the horizon was a red glow. And not very far away, on the other side of the valley and then a little further …. by my estimate Figueira da Foz. It’s only 12 km as the crow flies. There is a large dune area there with a lot of flammable
