Soup is one of the oldest cooked meals in the history of mankind. Although we cannot say who was the first to have the idea to put some ingredients into boiling water, we can...

The answer to the question – what is the capital of Portugal? - is very easy. But do you know what was the first capital of the Portuguese Kingdom? It was Coimbra. The first...

The 1st of March is the unofficial beginning of spring. It is the Day of Baba Marta (Grandma March). It is believed that Baba Marta is a grumpy and limping old woman whose mood...

We are on Republic Square. Black and white stones of limestone are precisely arranged in the chessboard form. It starts raining, raindrops are falling down on the paving stones creating their own patterns. Walking...

We tasted this dessert on our trip to Tomar. It is a small Portuguese town by the river Nabao, with 20 thousand inhabitants only. Nevertheless, it is one of the most interesting places in...

If you come to a restaurant in Portugal and you open the menu on the page with typical Portuguese pastries and desserts you might feel like in a medieval monastery. It is because on...

I often go back to my trip to Portugal with my friend Zita. One of the highlights of that trip was the visit to three pilgrimage sites - Fátima and Braga in Portugal and...

We know that Sigmund Freud spent almost his whole life in Vienna. We know that the Nazis burned his books in Berlin in 1933. He said: “What progress we are making! In the Middle...

This was the winter a year ago. I was in Trenčín which is a city in western Slovakia. The city is dominated by a castle - the third-largest castle in Slovakia. The white blanket...

One of the ingredients used in our recipe are sprouts. It is like magic when a perfect miniature version of the grown plant sprouts from such a very tiny seed. Sprouting is the practice...