Everywhere in Portugal

24/07/2024

19/07/2024

14/06/2024

Look who I was guiding today? Or maybe he was guiding me!
So fun to be with this man that changed my life!
On the first photo Rick said “let’s do a funny face” and look at me!!! Such big eyes!

12/06/2024

In this photo where is “Aldo?!”
My group with a “stranger “ that wanted to join the photo! She is even smiling!🙂
Wainting for the Portuguese president!

03/06/2024

On a tour of 12 days, with a professional photographer we can get great pictures of all of us!
Thank you to all travelers, vendors and other guides that become friends, to make my guiding life so much easier and memorable!

23/05/2024

Thank you Rich!
Enjoin the beauties of Portugal!

07/05/2024

Rachelle thank you for being on my tours!
Another wonderful person that I met along guide’s life!

04/04/2024

Pastéis de Belém!

02/04/2024

These photos are priceless! Me, guiding 22 years ago!
Thank you for the photos Richard! And also for the interest in doing another tour with me.

31/03/2024

And the first tour of the season comes to an end! This bunch of good people were brave! We had 27 degrees, we had snow and lots of rain! And the group never gave up! It was challenging to keep the good mood, following the program but definitely, all of my dear travelers helped.
Thank you!
Have fun and keep on traveling!

25/03/2024

Howard, a very nice gentleman on my group!
Thankyou for your kindness!

20/03/2024

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03/03/2024

Another great day in a beautiful “office”!
Thomas family! Thank you for the laughs! Happy people from Jamaica!

13/02/2024

Saint Vincent monastery in Lisbon
The name “São Vicente de Fora” (“St. Vincent on the Outside”) refers to the fact that the original church, from 1147, was built outside the city walls. The Portugal’s first king made a vow to build a church,where Portuguese and northern European crusaders lay buried.
The 17th century church has an impressive baldachin at the main chancel which shows how important it was.
The monastery has a wonderful collection of baroque tiles. There’s also an ancient cistern and the pantheon of the Bragança dynasty, which includes the marble tomb of Catherine of Bragança, the Portuguese princess who became the queen of England when she married King Charles II (the borough of Queens, in New York, was named in her honor).
The last queen of Portugal, who was exiled after the proclamation of the Republic in Portugal, visited the monastery, invited by the dictator Salazar, to pray, for the first time, in the tombs of her beloved husband and sons.
This monument, definitely, worths a visit!

28/01/2024

Art tapestry, every Portalegre tapestry is in fact an original work of art by itself, due to its own properties and the means used to translate the original. By means of a totally manual procedure it has as the starting point an original painting by a known Portuguese or foreign artist. Portalegre tapestries are woven by hand on vertical looms. They are woven from the base up and from the reverse side. They are very expensive, the average cost per square meter is between 10 000€ to 20 000€, depending on the pattern.
In 1946, two friends called Guy Fino and Manuel Celestino Peixeiro, decided to produce hand-knotted carpets in Portalegre. They put their hearts and souls into the project and the first tapestry, based on an original by João Tavares, was produced in 1948. Other artists – Júlio Pomar, Maria Keil, Guilherme Camarinha, Renato Torres and Lima de Freitas – were among the first to work with the Tapestry Factory.
Portalegre tapestries only gained recognition and acceptance in 1952, thanks to French tapestry-makers.

25/01/2024

Always impressive!

16/12/2023

In Lumiar in Lisbon.
To be honest, not the best street art but it was a fun morning!
Cheers

01/12/2023

And today the best tourists! Family, yes, friends are also family!
I hope the tour was better then the selfies!

29/11/2023

This time I went to Alentejo to visit and experience two important and different businesses, the marble quarries and the “vinho da talha”.
The anticline of marble in Alentejo is a fantastic resource not only for the region but for all Portugal. An anticline is a geological structure created by tectonic motion exerting pressure on the rock, resulting in a type of arch-like shaped fold. To geologists, marble is a metamorphic rock made up of carbonate minerals, composed by calcite (calcite marble) or dolomite (dolomitic marble) crystals, resulting from the recrystallization of pre-existing and mostly sedimentary limestone or dolostone rocks.
Portugal has a very interesting choice of marble that are supplied worldwide and are well-known natural stones. They can be found in different colors, patterns, selections and have been consistently used on a wide diversity of projects both on interior as well as exterior applications. The most recent is the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York, opened to the public on September 19, 2023.
Stone extraction in Portugal has a long history. Dating back to the Roman Empire, it was used to build important monuments that can be found both in Portugal and Spain, underlining how marble had an especially important role in the architecture of that time.

In Portugal, the Alentejo region has long been the guardian of “talha” wines. Here, the techniques developed by the Romans for making wine in the clay amphorae called “talhas” have been safeguarded. The “talha” winemaking process has been handed down from generation to generation throughout history, almost without change. Nevertheless, there is more than one way to make wine in “talhas”, with certain variations from region to region, according to local tradition.
The procedures for making “talha” wine have changed little in the last two thousand years. Basically, the grapes are crushed and then are put inside the clay amphorae, or “talhas”, where fermentation spontaneously takes place.
It is a very special wine with a very special taste! We can only drink it in November or December. It can be white, red or “petroleiro” a mixture of white and red grapes.

23/11/2023

Happy thanksgiving to all my friends!
In Portugal we don’t really commemorate this date but I don’t want to forget it.
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, 1914, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts

09/11/2023

Another wonderful afternoon with wonderful people!
Thank you Constance and family!
At the end of the year I am going to count the kilometers/miles I walked, I think I am able to arrive, at least, to Toulouse!!!!
Cheers to life!

05/11/2023

Another great day at the “office “!
One of the photos was taken in a rainy day but we still have smiles!
thank you all!
Cheers to life!

01/11/2023

Eleven o’clock, November 1st, 1755 happened the tragic earthquake in Lisbon.
November 1st, 2023, I’ve visited the Carmo Convent with mummy!
Gothic convent destroyed by this earthquake 268 years ago… still impressive although in ruins… king Fernando, Saint Nuno Pereira were buried here.
Today there is a local resident, Ms.Cat!
There was still time to do a visit in the museum next door where Marcelo Caetano surrender in April 25th 1974!
All this is Lisbon, in the emblematic Carmo Square.

09/10/2023

Thank you my dear group! See you someday!
PS- Claudia being Claudia! 🙂

27/09/2023

Happy “World Tourism Day”!
Thank you for visiting Portugal!
Cheers!

21/09/2023

Thank you so much for joining the tour!
Thank you for your patience when we were on the crowds!
Obrigada!

14/09/2023

Today we were in the Douro Valley visiting Santa Eufemia State. We had so much fun stomping the grapes! I love my job and my beautiful clients!
I really want to thank Teresa, Maria José and Alzira to organize this for us.

11/09/2023

And when you embody a character for your guests?!
Me and beautiful Tatiana!

10/09/2023

I want to thanks all the laughs we had in Lisbon while we were doing a walking tour in the rain. We couldn’t see the castle due to the amount of rain! I love these kind of people!
Thank you Carolyne and Steve!