Portuguese love bacalhau (BAA-ka-lau, except that “lh” together means you give it kind of a “yuh” sound there in the middle) which is dried and salted codfish. It’s a staple…
Tourists in Our Own Town, Overlook
We never went to the Space Needle until a visiting family member asked to see it. At one point we both worked approximately five minutes, on foot, from the base…
Tourists in Our Own Town, Downtown
We had company in our hometown! It’s admittedly difficult for people to just drop in, but thanks to a work thing that Lisa’s sister had in Lisbon, we got to…
Food & Wine: Castanhas Edition
We’re enjoying our first visitor (Hi C!) this week and it’s been a lot of firsts for us. You see, we’ve been terrible residents in Braga because we have done…
“Oh, Rocky!”
For many of us seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the late night run in the local movie theater was a kind of rite of passage. This gorgeously schlocky…
Washing Clothes in the EU (part two)
This is a continuation of my deep-ish dive into the weirdly complex world of washing machines in the EU. Like a lot of literally foreign concepts, not growing up with…
Washing Clothes in the EU (part one)
After (checks calendar) three years of being in Portugal, I am still learning things about how our washing machine works. Which feels weird because I’ve been doing household laundry since…
Practicing Our Ronrom
If you don’t follow us on regular-old facebook, you probably aren’t aware that we fostered cats for about a month this summer. It’s not a thing that we do regularly,…
Eating Our Fill – J Sheekey: London 2024, Part 4
This post is part of a series called London 2024 A little while back we talked about our aborted attempt to see Ian McKellen in “Player Kings”. When those plans…
Part 8: Our Stuff is Now Their Stuff
This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal One of the people in our area (henceforth known as RV) in the Americans and Friends in Portugal facebook…
