Pastries Please: The Food of Portugal

I love food. I love trying new food. I just might be the tall, skinny, hairy version of Andrew Zimmern. With that being said, it pains me to admit that I wasn’t a huge fan of Portuguese cuisine. My experience was limited since I was only there for a week and only visited three cities, [...]

Portugal: A Trip Through Videos

I present to you all of the videos, seen and unseen, that Diego and I made in Portugal. They appear in chronological order from the beginning.

A Final Adeus

Sorry about the noisy audio, it was quite windy…hence my hair. Goodbye Portugal from Willie Morris on Vimeo.

So Long Portugal

I write this final post from Portugal with a mixture of sadness and excitement. Sad because we are sitting in the lobby of our hostel and waiting for the taxi to the airport and excitement for the year to come. If I haven’t emphasized it enough, this trip has been exactly what I needed to [...]

An Afternoon Spent in Coimbra

After the morning in Porto at Casa da Musica, our trip took us a bit further South to Coimbra. We got off at the train station with absolutely no idea what to do or what to see so we started walking where we thought the center of the city might be. It was much like [...]

Casa da Musica: Sneak Peek

I plan on doing a whole post / video for Casa da Musica because we spent quite a bit of time there, but since uploading from the current wifi network is so slow, I thought I’d just post yet this. If you’ve been following my posts, you know I have a strange affinity for bathroom [...]

Making the Train

“Você tem um minuto.” These were the last words that the ticket seller spoke to us as we were rushing to catch our train. You see, even though we had the train schedule, the multiple stops at different bakeries and cafes along the way slowed down our pace considerably. Not to mention being stopped by [...]