Sweet orange beginnings Ever since I was a child, I always associated cold weather and especially Christmas with the smell of oranges. Ironically, because they need hot weather in order to get ripe and sweet. I would get an extra dosage when I got the flu, because vitamin C had "miraculous" healing powers. First encounter …
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Travelling through Algarve to the end of the World to escape winter
How it all started I started my journey from Lisbon because I was in pursuit of the forgotten sun and hopeful to find it at the end of the 3-hour train ride towards Lagos, in the south of Portugal. The sun was a bit stingy even when I arrived there, but I was already mesmerized …
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Faro way, far away in Algarve, Portugal
Mighty train takes me to Faro As I´m humming to myself, I start remembering vividly my visit to Faro. From the sweet colourful train that took me there from Loulé I could tell that this is no ordinary place. Faro is the capital of Algarve and also Algarve´s hub, as regional services that cover the entire area depart …
How to lay low in Loulé
First things first Ever since I decided to go to Loulé, I was unsure about my pronounciation of the name, so I would pronounce the end of the word barely audible. Once I arrived there, I found out it pronounces as if you would say "low lay" and I think this way I will never …
