Tag: photography
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Ascension Tension
We took a day off from fact finding and due diligence-ing and went in for some old fashioned, Rick Steves sanctioned, sight seeing. Since Viana do Castelo offers any number of scenic hotspots, we just went ahead and started at the top. Literally. The Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is an architecturally impressive…
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So SATA to see you go.
There are basically two airlines that fly between the Azores and the mainland on a regular basis. One is TAP, a Brazilian carrier that we have actually flown before in another hemisphere and is memorable because passengers clap each time the plane lands (“Yay, the pilot didn’t kill us!). The other is SATA, which is…
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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 