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• Lisbon day 5: Let’s Go to Alfama

  

  Apoorva said the streets of Alfama reminded him of Ajmer back in the day. I could see this, the curling narrow roads akin to gullies, windows that face each other making room for glances or chats, blinking cats that seemed to be in a languid trance, and Tram 28 meandering through like a boa who…

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  31 Aug 2017

  Art, Food, Photography, Story, Travel

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• Lisbon day 3: Oceanario, Mercado, and Urban trekking

  

  On the third day in Lisbon my true love said to me, Wear walking shoes, eat good breakfast, and take pictures plentifully…. For children and grown-up children like me the Oceanario de Lisboa is a wondrous place. Aquariums are such a joy, their darkness cocoons you, you feel isolated from the world, above and beyond,…

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  22 Aug 2017

  Art, Food, Parenting, Photography, Story, Travel

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• Lisbon day 1 and 2: the food and Sintra

  

  I have left my heart in Lisbon. I truly have. Every corner there was sheer poetry. When we left for Portugal my heart was broken, shattered to many tiny jagged bits, and I felt disappointed, with life, and with myself for having put my body and soul through the wringer again. Lisbon stitched the frayed…

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  20 Aug 2017

  Art, Food, Photography, Story, Travel

  agapanthus, architecture, art, blog, blue skies, bread, burger, clams, color, corinthia, corinthia lisbon, doors, eggs, family, food, forest, forgive, fun, fuschia, gates, ginger, green, heal, houses, hydrangeas, journal, juice, learning, life, lisboa, lisbon, live, meat, octopus, old things, orange, pastel, pastel de nata, pena, pena palace, photographs, photos, places, ponds, portugal, portugese, prawns, seafood, sintra, space, tiles, Travel, windows, yellow walls