Category: food
my Portuguese meal
I stayed one night at Gallery Hostel in Porto, certainly the prettiest hostel I’ve ever seen.
It’s an active Art Gallery.
Click PLAY or watch a Promo video on YouTube.
Found it via TripAdvisor.com, the site I’ve been using over the past couple of years in preference to Lonely Planet.
The most luxurious dorm accommodation anywhere?
Cost was $30 / night including a wonderful breakfast. (Eggs cooked to order.)
Even better was the optional evening meal, $13.50 including all the local Douro wine you could drink. 🙂
It’s prepared by a couple of guys working at the hostel. They are keen to teach any of the visitors interested how to cook local dishes.
The economy in Portugal is still lousy. Their friends looking for opportunity go to Brazil or other former Portuguese colonies.
These tapas were my favourite. Ground sausage. Cheese. Jam.
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I had several other excellent meals in Porto. Twice the Francesinha:
literally Frenchy, or more accurately little French (female) – is the most famous popular native snack food in Porto. It is a kind of sandwich with several meats covered with cheese and a special sauce made with beer and other ingredients.
Maybe 9000 cal a plate!
Lord, give me coffee …
Thanks Lisa. 🙂
it’s GOOD to eat leftovers
(infographic via Sustainable Blog)
the most DANGEROUS drugs
Economist – A new study suggests alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack
related – Influential and successful marijuana users
I’m thinking of quitting. Alcohol, that is.
Olive Tree, Petrofka
why you should be a vegetarian
This is horrific. Watch at risk of your sanity.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
It’s a clip from the phenomenal documentary Samsara, directed by Ron Fricke, who also made Baraka.
Tony Roma’s one more time
My brother Randy has been a life long fan of Tony Roma’s ribs.
Yet he hadn’t been there in a couple of years. Seems he’s no longer a loyal customer. Our traditional dinners there might be ending.
We enjoyed one more dinner there last week. 🙂
more Port Townsend photos
This is the last of them. 🙂
I’ve seen a LOT of wild animals in my day. But very few raccoons.
That’s the family that tried to take up residence in Carrie’s treehouse.
Nice place to retire …
more random Port Townsend, Washington photos
Jeni likes nearby Sequim as a retirement town. She grew up there.
… Sequim lies within the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains and receives on average less than 16 inches (410 mm) of rain per year—about the same as Los Angeles, California—and has given itself the nickname of Sunny Sequim. …
Rick McCharles 