Jan 17, 2021 | Africa, São Tomé, São Tomé e Príncipe
Hello again! Long time no see! As you may know, I worked for TAP Air Portugal for two years, as a flight attendant, a job that ended (temporarily, I hope!) last April because of the pandemic. From traveling every week, to having to stay in the same place for so long,...
May 28, 2020 | Africa, Marrakech, Morocco, Travel Itineraries
In 2016 I went to Morocco for the first time. Foreigners who do not need a visa for Portugal can be in Portugal for a period of three months, renewable for another three months and then have to leave the Schengen area and re-enter so that time starts counting from...
Jan 30, 2020 | Abidjan, Africa, Ivory Coast
African markets, the most exotic, colorful and interesting places I have ever visited! Whenever I am somewhere in Africa I try to visit a market and this visit to Abidjan was no different! The Treichville Market! The whole sensory experience is mesmerizing, the...
Dec 26, 2019 | Africa, Maputo, Mozambique, Travel Itineraries
Mozambique’s last post, the post about Maputo, the capital. On this trip Maputo was like a place of passage, first on the way to Pemba, then between Ilha de Moçambique and Kruger, with the arrival of Clara, and finally a few days before returning to Lisbon. We...
Dec 21, 2019 | Africa, kruger, Mozambique, South Africa
One of the things we were sure when we decided to go to Mozambique was that we would go to Kruger National Park in neighboring South Africa. We knew we wanted to stay in the park for more than one day, sleep inside the park and not in the hotels near the gates and we...
Dec 14, 2019 | Africa, Maputo, Mozambique
The return from Mozambique Island to Maputo marked the midpoint of our vacation and meant the beginning of a new cycle with the arrival of my sister Clara to Mozambique the next morning. In the first two days we were in Maputo, before going north, we met my friend...
Dec 11, 2019 | Africa, Mozambique, North of Mozambique
The island is magic! Tell those who live there and tell those who visit it! The island changes lives, those who visit the island are not indifferent, some change their lives so that the island is part of it. I’m speaking about Mozambique island, the first capital of...
Dec 6, 2019 | Africa, Mozambique, North of Mozambique
We arrived at Mozambique Island and had at home a beautiful lunch waiting for us, prepared by Wimbi, our cousin’s bright and friendly cook. After that he wanted to show us the island. Five minutes from home Fortress of São Sebastião is to be found, which we decided to...
Dec 4, 2019 | Africa, Mozambique, North of Mozambique
As I wrote you in the last post we went to Mozambique on holidays for 20 days to know the roots of my mother side of the family. First Pemba, where my grandmother’s family comes from, then the Island of Mozambique, where one of our cousins owns a house and...
Nov 26, 2019 | Africa, Mozambique, North of Mozambique
We finally came to Mozambique! Why finally? Because my mother was born here, in the past Lourenço Marques, the third generation born in Mozambique and the fifth touching African soil. The difference is that my grandparents took her to Portugal when she was two months...
Jun 25, 2019 | Accra, Africa, Ghana
For my second time in Accra I did not want to repeat the “mistake” of the first time, when I hardly left the hotel! Obviously in these places I have some reservations to leave the hotel alone and since the last time nobody of the crew wanted to go exploring, I had to...
May 20, 2019 | Africa, São Tomé, São Tomé e Príncipe
On the second day of our layover in São Tomé we woke up with an authentic tropical storm! Winds that seemed to have the strength to pluck palm trees and a rain so strong that it did not let us see beyond half a dozen meters. Still we left the hotel because we had...
