Category Archives: Interesting Articles Found on the Web

News, articles and blog entries that have caught my eye

Lonely Planet Portugal Podcast

I have just discovered that Lonely Planet have started creating podcasts on Portugal “Sounds and Sights of Portugal”. In this episode, a traveller discusses visiting Northern Portugal focusing on Porto and Braga and life in rural Portugal. A fascinating listen. Of course I’m waiting for an episode on Lisbon :-)

Here’s the link Sounds and Sights of Portugal

Lisbon Laughs

Just a quickie. I wanted to tell my lovely readers about Mario from Go Lisbon’s latest post on the Go Lisbon Blog. It’s entitled “Weird Lisbon” and is definately worth a read if only to find out the name of one of the little garden spaces in the city. Believe me – you couldn’t even guess!

The History of the Portuguese Language

There’s a excellent post over on ‘frankherles’ blog on the History of the Portuguese Language. It makes fascinating reading for those of us learning Portuguese.

Click here to go to the article