Canadians in Portugal

And yet another year comes to a close, one that was undoubtedly full of great music coming out of the Great White North, aka Canada. And so ...

Today is Boxing Day in pretty much all countries that were once, or still are, part of the British Empire. In Portugal, nobody has faintest ...

Well Christmas is fast approaching and with that, here's our Christmas post with all kinds of interesting facts about Christmas and abou...

As I mentioned before on this blog and on the Facebook page as well, as part of my research on Luso-descendant returnees, I recently put tog...

One certainly can't say that trams, or eléctricos in Portuguese, are a comfortable means of transportation; quite the contrary in fact,...

In my 18 years of living in Canada (from 1979 to 1997) I only rode the train once. As we all know, Canada is a vast country. Getting from on...

When we think of the swastika symbol, we thing hate mongering Nazism. If you go to wikipedia and punch in 'swastika', however, you...

About a year and a half ago I carried out an interview with Marta Raposo, a Portuguese-Canadian fado singer, for a project on the return to ...

Ok so here we are nearing the end of September. Drawing back on my days of youth in Prince George, B.C., this time of year reminds me of thr...

If one were to say that the pastel de nata (or the pastel de belem) is Portugal's most well known sweet or cake, my bet is on the fact...

Do you remember the Pop Shoppe? I sure do. For those of us who grew up in Canada during the 1970 and early 80, Pop Shoppe pop, in fact, was ...

As it was written a few post ago on this blog, the current month here in Portugal - which we are now seeing come to a close - is synonymous ...