Docinhos do Maçapão

Portugal is a land full of hidden treasures. Having said that, one will easily have a new "favourite" every single day. First I got addicted to the coffee, then the Pasteis de Nata, then took the train all the way to Aveiro just to eat its famous Ovos Moles de Aveiro and now I got …

Art Deco in Lisbon (Part I)

Back in 2016, The Guardian included Lisbon to their "10 of the best European cities for Art Deco design" list. Indeed, Lisbon has a lot of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings, as well as a lot of mid-century furniture stores. When one is strolling around the center of Lisbon, one feels like he has …

Music at the Palace

Once a month, the Hotel Avenida Palace publishes a new schedule of concerts that will take place at the lobby of the hotel. Entrance is free, and it's a good chance to enjoy yourself with a nice pre-dinner cocktail, before dinner begins somewhere else... A short introduction of the hotel quoted from its website: The …

Cryptopoticus: Secrets within secrets

Many regard Portugal as a well-kept secret, and it still is! Once you landed in Portugal, you’d realize there are a lot more secrets waiting for you to uncover. Galerias Romanas da Rua da Prata is undoubtedly one of these many secrets! After the devastating earthquake in Lisbon in 1755, much of the infrastructure in …

The ALVALADE neighbourhood

...Alvalade, the ultimate modernist neighborhood built from scratch in the beginning of the 20th century, following the most innovative architectural and urbanistic projects, has become the place where past and future collide.... (BIMAA) I learned about Alvalade by chance; ever since I've arrived in town, I was looking for a professional camera dealer and it …

Parque das Nações

More commonly referred as "EXPO" by local Portuguese, this 5.4 sq km plot was once a site mainly used for industrial purposes. According to some of my local neighbours, there stood a lot of defunct factory buildings and was a place where trucks would unload trash and things like old TV until the 1990s. Because …