In Cascais you’re curious

Okay, so maybe this isn’t the best pun possible but it’s the best I could do with minimal effort. Really, to approximate the Portuguese pronunciation of the city it would sound something like kuhs-KYSH where the first vowel sounds like …

Back in the air after more than three years

A few months after I returned from my trip to South America, I began planning a three week trip to Portugal and was ready to depart in late March 2020 but the Covid-19 pandemic ended those plans. I optimistically rescheduled …

If it’s on the internet it must be true (Rio and Me supplement two)

This would normally be the post titled “Humans arrive in…” but tracing the earliest human presence in this region is exceptionally difficult for two reasons. First, the area is little studied. Second, and perhaps the reason there has been so …