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Flying with moderation
“I don’t know if I’ll make it,” Astrid texts, “because my handle didn’t work.” You have to read between the lines, otherwise you won’t understand anything When you fly, you have to operate with moderation Some airlines are stricter about the rules than others. Astrid was able to fly from Rotterdam to Lisbon with Transavia
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Dementing neighbor
Friend Carla often has great stories about what happens in her neighborhood. She is involved in the lives of her fellow villagers because she is an extrovert and therefore gets her energy from contact with people. For example, she has a dementing neighbor who provides stories He has lived in the same village, in the
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The portugese love portugese music
This week less words and a lot of notes.To show how much my fellow countrymen love portugese music. The titel of this video: spontaneous singing This was the first one I stumbled upon. A father and a son at home on the couch. Just another day. The portugese society is drenched in music! Another one,
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Portuguese-Dutch culture shock, part 2
(The sequel to last week) Carla, expat and a friend from Amsterdam and I in my kitchen, confused about her culture shock It concerns her tenants. She, like us, has been renting for a longer period of time since Covid, and also more to Portuguese than to foreigners. Just like everywhere else, there are too
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Portuguese-Dutch culture shock
The first one dates back to a long time ago when we were taking lessons in the beautiful portuguese language and suddenly came up against the imperative. We haven’t done that in the dutch language for a long time. I only know the famous slogan just after the war: “Help each other, buy Dutch goods!”
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Friends of friends are friends of Termas da Azenha
He spent weeks preparing. Neighbor Paul made every effort to make his friends feel at home. With a great result. Those friends have also become friends of Termas da Azenha At least I hope so … It is actually quite a bold statement, I don’t even know how they read this … but let’s assume
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Sewing Kimonos and Fingers Together
It all seems to be quite a delicate matter. One square centimetre of your body that you can’t use, and you know it pretty well. One square millimetre misplaced, and you see it. It matters when you’re trying to sew a kimono together A surgeon certainly knows that too. The surgeon who sewed my finger
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Our Marcelo receives an honorary doctorate
We have a very nice president, Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa. He is very popular, and could easily be re-elected, if this were not his last term. He is always affectionately called Marcelo in popular parlance. A man without pretensions who simply stands in line at the supermarket. He received an honorary doctorate from
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Four presidents visiting
The president of Vinha da Rainha stands at the top of the stairs: “Bom dia, dona Helena” and gives me a hearty handshake. That’s what it’s called in portuguese, the president of the sub-municipality. The mayor. And translated, I’m dona Helena. He announces the arrival of four other presidents Next Friday – when you read
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