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sábado, 24 de janeiro de 2015
quarta-feira, 21 de janeiro de 2015
quarta-feira, 14 de janeiro de 2015
Casa da Música (House of Music) | Porto, Portugal
Casa da Música is a concert hall space in Oporto which was designed by the dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. It was inaugurated in April 2005 and cost around 100 million euros.
It is a very unusual building from it's "curtain" shaped windows to the gold leaf wood grain pattern in the larger auditorium (it has two auditoriums one smaller than the other and a rooftop restaurant).
Its design is acclaimed worldwide and compared to buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain by Frank Gehry, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Berliner Philharmonie in Berlin, Germany. It was considered by the architecture critic of the "New York Times" as "one of the most important concert halls built in the last 100 years".
As seen in the last picture, the floor on the outside is very irregular and is often used by skateboarders to perform their tricks.
I don't own credits to this video.
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domingo, 4 de janeiro de 2015
Food | Capa Negra serves the best Francesinha in Town | Porto, Portugal
Me and my family went to Oporto mainly to eat a "francesinha" because my mom and sister had never had one. A "francesinha" is a traditional sandwich from Oporto and was awarded best sandwich in the world last year - reason enough to visit this amazing city! So the first thing we did when we arrived there was to ask around where could we eat the best "francesinha" in town, and the answer was always the same - Capa Negra - and then they all added "but its too far to walk there". Turns out it wasn't that far and we were able to get there in about 40 minutes enjoying the views (it's true what they say - the best way to get to know a place is walking).
The light was against me that day (literally) this is the reataurant we visited, with a very funny looking gentleman right in the middle of my picture, who I should have thanked for making this picture a whole lot more interesting.
Taste and portion size, Capa Negra didn't disappoint. I don't know if it's indeed the best "francesinha" in town, but it was for sure the best "francesinha" of my life!
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terça-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2014
Food | Raclette
Raclette is a dish indigenous to parts of Switzerland. Traditionally a cheese called raclette (of course) wash melted and then the melted part was scarpped of into the dinner plates and eaten with potatoes, mushrooms, meats such as prosciutto or bacon, pickled vegetables and other veggies of choice.
Nowadays an electric machine is used to melt the cheese and many kinds of cheese are used, my favourite is emmental.
It is the perfect confort food for a social dinner as it may last hours!
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segunda-feira, 29 de dezembro de 2014
Watching the Sunset at Relógio Beach | Figueira da Foz, Portugal
After walking a long distance, we finally reached our destination - the beach. One of our friends had just arrived from Switzerland and she was sick of mountains and snow, so she begged us to go to the beach and just look at the see for a while... we ended up running after seaguls and then spread a scarf on the sand and sat down to watch the sunset. It was really a magical moment.
Even though it's December and rain/snow was expected, it's still sunny in Portugal (thank God!!). Don't be foolled by this bright sun though. it has been freezing cold!
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sexta-feira, 26 de dezembro de 2014
Relógio Beach | Figueira da Foz, Portugal
Last Summer I attended Somnii Festival, which is the biggest electronic music festival in Portugal, and haven't been to this beach ever since. It's incredible to look at this deserted beach (now that it's Winter time) when the only memory I have of it is a gigantic stage and fifty thousand people jumping and screaming as one.
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