Silverspoon: My husband & I took the prepaid taxi service from the Lisbon Airport to our hotel and our driver was also a tour guide. We booked the taxi at the Visitor's Desk in the airport. Our driver spoke very good English, was dressed in a shirt and tie and was very personable. I would have booked a private tour with him, but we were on a tour to begin with. His price was very reasonable.

Silverspoon - Sintra is very easy to do by public transport - train from Rossi station to Sintra, then local buses. You can get a one day transport pass at Rossio station.

I doubt that it will ever open in Pittsburgh.
Maybe I will be lucky if I get to New York.

Apassionata - musical and horse riding show will be in Lisbon (Campo Pequeno) with performances on the 27th (9.30pm), 28th Feb (4pm and 9.30om) and 1 March (4pm).

As a result of global cooling, 70% of continental Portugal is currently below 32 Farenheit (Lisbon and the Setubal Peninsula are the exceptions).
Weather forecast says that, although unlikely, there is a chance for vestigial snow in Lisbon this evening.

Francefling, which quinta in the Duoro were you?

I think The Guardian editors do read Fodors :-)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/200...reaks-portugal

Reading suggestion:

http://www.amazon.com/First-Global-V.../dp/9724613135

There goes the neighborhood.

Watching the Inauguration events. Sincere congratulations to American friends for this beautiful day.

Thanks Joao!

Hope all is well with you and Gertrude!

Gina

Last Friday was the 40th aniversary of the inaugural Canairelief flight from Sao Tome Island to Biafra.

I found strange, some time ago, the sight of 2 inoperable Super Constellation airplanes just outside the Sao Tome airport, and after somer research I stumbled in a story of heroism as I had rarely heard.

The whole story may be found in
http://www.biafraland.com/Biafra_Air...y_Churches.htm

Museum of Ephemeral (Graffiti in Lisbon. mostly Bairro Alto), free entrance

http://museuefemero-eng.blogspot.com...1_archive.html

This is the August archive, check the other archives.

Have fun

Hard to describe the place... they call themselves a "cultural cooperative". A place where anybody may present his/her/their own show of anykind.
A lot of out-of-mainstream experimentalism. A "smell" of woodstock.
If you like to seat on the floor, between walls painted with psychedelic paintings and you are less than 40, at least in your mind, go there, otherwise stay out.

According to them "we supply light meals everydays, pies, soups and today's specials, fruit juice and herb infusions, all of them made with the best vegetables, colors and smells in the world"

http://www.crewhassan.org/

No one under forty was at Woodstock. My husband was, but his memory is a bit blurry. Must be because of his advanced age.

Advanced age??? Not the husband I met!
:-)

Age really hits home when you see some of the musicians performing now that were singing then.
WOW. Are we really THAT old?

Today are completed 100 years over Carmen Miranda's birth in Marco de Canavezes (northern Portugal) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda).
The singer and actress developped most of her career in Brazil and the US.

The sun shines for the 1st time after 2 months of miserable weather.

We know what you mean. It has been bitterly cold here for several weeks.
But not today. Today it will reach the mid 60's. Yeah!