Tag: ex-pat
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Portu-gone
Well, it’s time to say goodbye to Portugal and their comically affordable healthcare, their cod-scented grocery stores, and their counterintuitive, rectangular toilets (apparently “a round peg in a square hole” is not so much a metaphor there as it is literal, potty training instructions). And yet, I am admittedly melancholy (as well as 4 mini-bottles…
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Weather or Not
Unfortunately, the weather has not been as predictable on this trip as we would have liked, so plans are always in flux. Before getting here, we read that the Azores is a place you can experience all four seasons in one day. Big deal. Muncie, Indiana makes the same claim. Frankly, every shit-show north of…
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Comida e Bebida
If you know a little Spanish, you already know enough Portuguese to guess what this post is about (but as we learned yesterday, you can’t pronounce it). Without going all Anthony Bourdain on you, I absolutely agree that other cultures are best experienced through the stomach (and oftentimes the liver). Here are some examples from…
The Hillbilly Viking 