I´m sitting in an outdoor café in Baixa, in hillside neighbourhood overlooking the downtown area where I´m staying. I´m shivering slightly as it has cooled off with the sun set. There´s a restaurant around the corner where I want to go for dinner, but it doesnºt open until 8pm. Apparently Lisbon runs late! To kill […]
Location: Pensão Prata, Lisbon Weather: cool, grey, overcast I just finished unpacking and I´m sitting on the bed looking out at a tiled rooftop of the building next to me. The Pensão Prata is a small guest house in the heart of Lisbon, and the traffic noises coming through the open window make me wonder […]
It’s Saturday evening and I’m at the airport, looking out at the rain on the dark runways and typing away on an Internet terminal in the lounge. I’ve made it this far without thinking of anything serious I’ve forgotten. This is much better than the time a couple of years ago when I realized, while […]