A Tasca Tequila Bar is little more than a hole in the wall, located in a narrow street in Lisbons Barrio Alto district. Still, this is where I find myself coming back to every time I visit the city. At A Tasca I usually find myself drinking Tequila slammers. A …
Portuguese cuisine can be variable when it comes to quality but more often than not the neglect is on the consumers part if he finds himself landed in a poor restaurant. Quality is everywhere, just waiting to be explored. Barrio Altos many gems include the restaurante O Faio, an excellent …
Spring holiday during the last week of May took me to once more to Lisbon during the 2006 installation of the Rock in Rio music festival. This added to the delights of the Portuguese capital which are already rich in numbers.
The Portuguese, like unlike Norwegians, know that they will never be taken seriously in Europe. They are simply to small – and this makes them a very relaxed and agreeable people to deal with. The city itself has much to offer to the taste of most anyone. Traveling with my …
The popularity of the Iberian peninsula has increased dramatically as a leisure travel destination for europeans with time and/or money to spare. Deciding to explore urban and rural life in and around Lisbon and Porto, me and Aline set out for Portela airport during easter 2004. The outward journey For …
On purpose to visit a conference I set out for Algarve, accompanied by three wise men – Terje Aaberge, Svein Ølnes and Ivar Petter Grøtte – one of which had in his posession a summer house conveniently located near the conference venue.
Madeira (Portugal) As we sat down in the sleighs at Monte, I realized that the Madeirans were not used to people my size. Would they be able to navigate the sleighs – I seriously doubted it and was very nearly correct! [ Stein Runar Bergheim, 0 . 2.Sat, ]
