I came to Cape Verde for the first time a year ago and I wrote about it here. When I left, I was almost certain that I would come back. And when I did, a year later, I just picked up from where I left, like not even a day had passed. That's the charm …
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Sweet orange beginnings Ever since I was a child, I always associated cold weather and especially Christmas with the smell of oranges. Ironically, because they need hot weather in order to get ripe and sweet. I would get an extra dosage when I got the flu, because vitamin C had "miraculous" healing powers. First encounter …
As I was looking through my photo albums, I found a picture that reminded me of how my passion for travel began. I was 17 and going to Vienna. The trip wasn't too long or far, only a bus ride away. Leaving with no expectations, I was delighted every step of the way. How it …
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I´m at the end of my trip through Algarve in the south of Portugal and I arrive in the small town of Alvor. As I see the sun going down, I can´t help but think of a word play. Because "Alvor" means "serious" in Norwegian. So, this is Serious
How it all started I started my journey from Lisbon because I was in pursuit of the forgotten sun and hopeful to find it at the end of the 3-hour train ride towards Lagos, in the south of Portugal. The sun was a bit stingy even when I arrived there, but I was already mesmerized …
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Mighty train takes me to Faro As I´m humming to myself, I start remembering vividly my visit to Faro. From the sweet colourful train that took me there from Loulé I could tell that this is no ordinary place. Faro is the capital of Algarve and also Algarve´s hub, as regional services that cover the entire area depart …
The other day a friend asked me to show her ways of improving her English. I get this question quite often, so it was worth writing about it here. How my passion for learning foreign languages started For me, it all started when I was 7 years old. My parents took me to a music …
A meteowrong. It´s no joke, there is even an entire gallery dedicated to them. The other night I found out about the chemical found near Cummington which is cummingtonite. That´s good, but taconite is even better. Moving on to lighter matters, here comes arsole! If six of them are bonded together, you can apply the prefix "sexi" to get "sexiarsole". Too much? How …
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I´m a huge fan of studying how language affects our life. So big of a fan that I even put "words" in the title of my blog. Nominative determination is the best example that shows just how important words are. It´s a long name for something as simple as it is funny, namely the idea …
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First things first Ever since I decided to go to Loulé, I was unsure about my pronounciation of the name, so I would pronounce the end of the word barely audible. Once I arrived there, I found out it pronounces as if you would say "low lay" and I think this way I will never …
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