This is the second post of a series of 12, where I show the changing look of the Jardim de Santa Barbara over a year. The garden appears to be in transition this month. There are still some roses but many are near the end. The bed of marigolds on the right has been replanted…
It’s time for a Roman wedding! Again, this will be mostly pictures. I have some wrap-up thoughts at the end about Braga Romana 2026 as a whole. Here is a still of the procession across the square. The bride is in the orange veil to the left. And because it’s difficult to capture the fun…
It rained overnight and was threatening to most of the day, so we spent most of it indoors except for a visit to the soldiers’ encampment. Today’s post is pretty much just pictures. This previous one needs a bit of explanation. This statue is the square all year round, and although it looks like cheap…
Day 3 – Friday Today was HOT so we didn’t do as much. The only thing we made time for was the big parade in the evening. And that was a good choice, I now have a much better sense of how parades work here. Maybe this is how parades work everywhere, and I just…
Day 2 – Thursday We took an English-language tour in the morning, which I highly recommend. It was about 24C out, and I stupidly didn’t bring a hat or water because it’s the first really warm day in Braga this year. By 11:30am I was worried about keeling over. Memo to self: hat is mandatory….
It is time for Braga’s premiere festival of the year, Braga Romana*, a celebration of the city’s 2000-year old history. This is my first time here, we have guests who are experiencing it for the first time with us, and the weather is warm and sunny all weekend. Wooo! (*To translate Portuguese articles, you can…
Last week Marty and I went to Lisbon for a couple of nights to attend the Global Expat Summit. We’d been invited by Fresh Portugal, the firm that is handling a lot of our legal and financial transition work for the past year. It was … odd. It was a good event, but I think…
This is the first post of a series of 12, where I show the changing look of the Jardim de Santa Barbara over a year.
One of the things I love about travel is the day-to-day way I touch on a place’s history and culture, even if I’m not in the mood for a museum day. It always leaves me wanting to know more, in case the light touch I’ve experienced is incorrect, or not the whole story.
During our week in the Azores, we took two all-day tours out to the eastern side of San Miguel Island. They were with two different companies, but had some overlap, so I will run them both together in this section. Just in case you think we did all these things in one day. We’re not that heroic.