Цитаты из книг — Барри Хэттон

The author and university professor João Medina, describing Portugal as “a little island clamped onto a peninsula”, commented, with his tongue only partly in his cheek: “We’re all each other’s cousins. We’re a country where if two people get on a train in (Lisbon), by the time they reach Coimbra, they find out that they…

At a place in the Azores called Lagoa das Furnas locals have a unique way of making cozido: a big, lidded saucepan full of meaty ingredients is lowered on a string into a pit which is heated by a volcano and after five hours the steaming mass is pulled out.