Sardinhas Assadas

A friend asked me what the women pictured on the beach in Nazaré were doing.
Sardines are a staple food in Portugal. As I read on one Web page, “When most of us think of sardines, we imagine tiny skinny, bony creatures compressed into a tiny tin can but in Portugal fresh, succulent sardines measure between [...]

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Nazaré, funiculars and Portuguese bullfighting

At university, I began studying Portuguese, along with Spanish. Few British universities at that time offered truly Latin American courses, which obviously had to include Brazil and the Portuguese language.
As part of the program, students were required to spend their summers taking courses at universities in Spain and Portugal. In my case, it was the [...]

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