Hiding out in Vila do Conde was hardly a chore, but being away from home always presents challenges one way or another. For example, since we’d never been here before…

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…

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…

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…

We’re wrapping up tales of our trip to London. It turns out that we ate at interesting places more than we did just about anything else (… whoops?) so as…

This post covers three places we really enjoyed, two a bit upscale and one that would easily be a “joint.”

When we arrived in London our hosts (clients? friends? the people who own the house we’re staying in, roll with us here…) did a fantastic job of getting our feet…

A little while back we talked about our aborted attempt to see Ian McKellen in “Player Kings”. When those plans fell through, we decided we’d make the most of it…

Our friends A&B have been raving about a meat-intensive utterly delicious restaurant in the hills just above Guimares. A bunch of us arranged cars and set out on a bit…

I grew up in San Francisco, and family have lived there since the early 70s. I’ve watched it’s food scene for a lot of decades, from the early days of…