Posts Tagged ‘ portuguese ’

Fading Language, Losing Culture

Fading Language, Losing Culture

July 5, 2007

I'm sitting in the Portuguese Consulate in Rotterdam today, for what is always an entertaining adventure. While there isn't an enormous amount of Portuguese flocking to live and work in the Netherlands, there are still enough so that someone is inevitably standing in front of the little teller...

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Isolated Somewhere in Portugal

Isolated Somewhere in Portugal

August 1, 2006

The family upstairs lives in Switzerland. The other family upstairs, their car has French license plates. Apparently the other apartment that's for sale in this modest little building, that guy is Canadian. We're all Portuguese, mind you. But this is the reality of Portugal, especially in...

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Happy 25th of April, 32nd anniversary

Happy 25th of April, 32nd anniversary

April 25, 2006

In honor of my favorite Portuguese holiday of the year: Also read my previous years' entries.

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