Somebody once said that the deepest conversations between friends take place in total silence, and Lisbon is a true expert in silence. The portuguese tranqüilidade is probably one of the traits that differentiate Portuguese from their neighbors to the east. Lisbon is a city to experience slowly. Here, the streets seem to be frozen in time, whispering soft lamentations to ...
Goethe described Prague as “the most precious of the jewels in the crown of cities”. I can assure you I don’t intend to disagree with the German poet. I fell in love Prague the first time I saw a picture of the Charles Bridge, with the dark statues covered by the fog of the Vltava and the Gothic steeples rising ...