It's been five days since I arrived to my homeland. It is not a holiday; yet another time, I'm doing a guidebook update. I've worked on a few Croatia guides...
Posted by | May 5, 2008
As I'm slowly wrapping up my Portugal sojourn, a feeling of melancholy creeps up. Feeling the saudade before I even left... Have I turned Portuguese in just three months? I...
Posted by | April 30, 2008
This past week, I had two friends visiting me in Lisbon, one of whom spent time in Portugal in the 1980s. Back in New York, Christine always talked of a...
Posted by | April 23, 2008
I'm watching the sun slowly fade over Alfama from my Lisbon apartment, realizing that in less than two weeks my Portugal sojourn will be over. So here I am, mulling...
Posted by | April 18, 2008
In case you're wondering, I haven't actually left Lisbon since the last post. In fact, I've been stuck to the computer screen trying to catch up on work and tie...
Posted by | April 12, 2008
I recently returned from the island of São Miguel in the Azores archipelago. The largest of nine islands, it offers a great diversity of experiences and landscapes that you can...
Posted by | April 8, 2008
The reason for my silence of the last few days - I have been in the middle of the Atlantic, on the nine-island archipelago of the Azores. I am writing...
Posted by | April 2, 2008
As I write this, I am sitting in a beautiful corner room at Farol Design Hotel in Cascais, a seaside suburb of Lisbon, with waves of the Atlantic crashing literally...
Posted by | March 27, 2008
I am sitting at Lisbon airport waiting to board my evening flight to Barcelona for a family visit - my nephew is celebrating his fifth birthday this weekend. As I...
Posted by | March 24, 2008
The latest update from the road: the Algarve. I just came back to Lisbon from a long weekend in the south of Portugal. After three days in this coastal province...
