The 11-day tour of Portugal that I participated in also arrived at the final destination, Lisbon. We stayed in Lisbon for 3 days, and on the first day we visited major tourist attractions such as the Tower of Belem, the monument of discove…

Portugal's Nazaré is a resort area visited not only in Portugal but also from all over Europe in the summer, a beautiful port town with long sandy beaches, and a fisherman town where various seafood can be caught. It is also a town where t…

Coimbra University, founded in Coimbra, Portugal's third largest city, was first founded in Lisbon in 1290 by King Dinis, but was later relocated to Coimbra in 1308, along with Bologna, Oxford and Paris Universities. It is positioned as on…

Many churches are found in the city of Braga, which flourished as the first religious city in Portugal from the Middle Ages to the early modern era, as it is called "Lisbon is fun, Coimbra is learning, Porto is working, and Braga is a city…

The first stop I visited on my Portugal tour was Porto, a port city in northern Portugal, the second largest city after Lisbon. Porto is a beautiful city with many hills on the northern bank of the Douro River, which flows through northern…

My old passport is stamped with [14-05-94 PORTO] [21-05-94 LISBOR]. Yes, I participated in an 11-day excursion to Portugal, including a one-night overnight flight from Porto on May 14, 1994 and leaving Lisbon on May 21. At that time, as a …

Each city has a river that can be called a symbol. And walking around the riverside is essential to thoroughly enjoy the city, but cruising the river has a different taste. Sumida River is the river for me living in Tokyo. The most impress…

Speaking of chansons, the first thing that comes to mind is Yves Montand, a male singer who is the Parisian itself, and Edith Piaf, a woman with rich emotional expression. But my favorite was Charles Aznavour, who sings the bitterness of l…

An American style bar, a beer hall in the back, a variety of national languages ​​flutter, interiors, customers and bartenders all blend together to create a world, and noblemen, businessmen, bohemian painters etc. are like friends without…

Saint-Germain-des-Pres on the left bank of the Seine was once a base for leftist activists and cultural figures. Among them, LES DEUX MAGOTS, a café, was a place where existentialists, mainly Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, gather…

Rive Gauche on the left bank of the River Seine in Paris, and Rive Gauche for me at that time, meant the Perfume of Saint-Laurent, and I commuted with the cheapest product. And on this trip, my friend and I walked to the heart of Rive Gauc…