It's
too easy but also irresistible - Here are some menu items from dinner
tonight in a (the?) restaurant in Sao Teotóio:
Cod
will bras.
Bitoque
cow
Pork
with clampons
Mixed
grill meat interspersed, sausage, bluegrass chop.
Watching
a football match on the TV, the only word I picked up was Shoota!
I'm guessing this is the imperative of Shootar. Possibly Brazilian Portuguese. Surprisingly, although Spanish has corner
(or cornerr) and
penálti, it hasn't adopted this usage.
Thoughts
from a morning in Lisbon:-
-
If you're going to be looking for the Metro sign, take some
binoculars; they're small, low down and unlit. As if advertising a MacDonalds for midgets.
-
The castle is well worth a visit.
-
The Cathedral (Sé) isn't.
-
Getting into the Castle is via an automatic gate, saving staff. But,
as it's unclear how to use your barcoded ticket to get through the gate, a
guard is employed to show you. Instead of just ripping your ticket in
half, absent a machine.
-
Allow yourself plenty of time to buy Metro tickets at an automatic
machine. Instructions are complex and (a nice touch) only in
Portuguese. Once you master them, they're relatively straightforward
but, until then, you're likely to build up quite a queue behind you.
So probably best not done in the rush hour.
-
So many cruise ships now visit Lisbon, there's almost certainly going
to be one or two docked anytime you visit. You can tell which couples
are from the ships as the men, despite being nearer to 75, are
wearing 3/4 trousers which might just look OK on men of 25. Possibly.
Finally
. . . I
used to make my morning coffee by pouring water that was 'just off
the boil' into my cafetiere. But now I read that the water really
should be at exactly 87 degrees Fahrenheit. Life really is tough at
times.
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