Portugal – Wanderlust Wonderland

The traveling bookworm in Portugal

9 June 202011 June 2020Posted in Portugal, the traveling bookwormTagged books, books from portugal, camoes, pessoa, portugese books, saramago, the traveling bookworm4 Comments

Whenever I am planning a new trip, I always look for literature from the area I’m visiting. Authors that came from the regions or books that are set within certain cities. This way, I get to know a little of the (literary) history of the city. I have found some great books and new favourite authors this way, and I like to share them with you, so you can also emerge yourself into the literary world of… Lisbon!

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Castles and Literature in Lisbon

26 May 202018 May 2020Posted in Citytrip, Europe, PortugalTagged bertrand livreiros, Castelo de sao jorge, castles in lisbon, castles in portugal, fundacao josé saramago, Lisboa, Lisbon, lisbon for bookwurms, oldest bookstore in the world, Portugal, saramago, saramago museumLeave a comment

Do you know what I always love about traveling? Discovering new authors. We went to Lisbon with our student’s association and because we were all literature students, bookstores, libraries and literary museums were always part of the program. It was in Lisbon that I discovered one of my favourite authors.

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Wandering the streets of Lisbon

21 May 202018 May 2020Posted in Citytrip, Europe, PortugalTagged La primavera, Lisboa, Lisbon, Mude, Museu do Fado, Portugal, Sangria, stories about homeless people, student's associationLeave a comment

I must have said ‘We gotta go back to Lisbon’ a hundred times this last week. I wanted to go back to blogging about my past travels and there was one city that I hadn’t covered yet: Lisbon. I am looking at my photos and I see this gorgeous city that I visited six years ago, but which I forgot to document. It was one of my first few trips and at that time, I apparently did not feel the need to document my travels. So I got a lot of photos and some stories, though maybe not as detailed as usual.

I remember the Saramago museum, I remember a homeless man stealing a melon from our picnick (stay tuned, this is a great story) and I remember how fun the Fado museum was after drinking just a little bit too much sangria…

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