Sunny Lisbon

The Casino Lisboa is more or less a new space. It open doors in 2006 but it was  an old dream from it’s owner, Stanley Ho, already owner of Casino Estoril and other casinos in Macau. The building of a casino in Lisbon was controversial : allegations were made that it would increase the gambling [...]

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Fernando Pessoa is a Portuguese poet, born in Lisbon in 1888. To understand it’s relationship with the city, picture the relationship between Kafka and Prague, but not so commercially exploited. Pessoa is Lisbon and Lisbon is Pessoa. He was born in Largo do Chiado, and spent is childhood in Durban, South Africa. At the age [...]

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Today I’ll introduce a new topic to this blog, since it is a common thing to find in your typical travel guide. I’ll try to do it a little bit better than the travel guides usually do it, so I hope you’ll enjoy it. When learning a new language we normally start by learning the [...]

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Lisbon only has one camping park but don’t worry because it is a big one with very good conditions (it’s a five star camping park with a lot of facilities). It’s location is perfect if you enjoy a closer contact with nature, since it’s located in Monsanto Park, the green lung of the city. On [...]

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