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A British travel writer based in Lisbon since 2015, Lucy previously lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for close to 10 years. She's written extensively about South America, Portugal, and the UK for BBC Travel, Atlas Obscura, Vice, Rough Guides, Footprint and others, as well as writing for Fodor's guides to Brazil and Portugal and articles for Fodor's.com
You don’t need to speak much Portuguese to recoil in horror when a scan of the booze aisle reveals "Licor de Merda." Wait, what? "Liqueur of Poop"? Why would anybody drink that?