About our blog
Welcome to our blog about places to see, food to eat, wine to drink, poetry to read, and whatever else comes to mind. The Portuguese navigators discovered much of the world four hundred years ago. But the world has yet to discover Portugal. So the country remains the last secret of Europe. A place of castles and palaces, of mountains and valleys, of sand and sea. All bathed in warm light, all cooled by the breeze that carries the ocean’s salt, the salt of Portugal.
What a terrific blog!!! I love the pictures and the accompanied descriptions/stories. I wonder who the authors are, mmm??? Could it be a talented professional photographer? A story teller (or writer maybe?) who loves Portugal? Or, maybe an economist, musician, painter paired with an acclaimed chef and an expert web technician???
I am starting to feel the breeze that carries the salt of Portugal, and luckily will live surrounded by it very soon.
Congratulations on your great blog!
It is a great window case for our culture and in particular a wonderful personal opinion about Portugal and everything that makes our identity. My name is Verónica Paixão and I am one of the food people passionate writing the blog http://www.aportuguesedish.com that we recently created to display the best of our gastronomy. Every week, based on a dish, will tell the story of a restaurant and the persons that make it come alive.
We’d love to add your blog to our blogroll and have ours included in your suggested blogs. Have a look around and let me know!
Kind regards,
Verónica
Dear Veronica:
Your blog is wonderful; congratulations! It is a great contribution to increasing the quality of the information available about Portugal. We just linked to it and we look forward to reading your posts every week.
With best regards,
Sergio Rebelo
Great! Thank you, Sergio.
I’ll also check Salt of Portugal regularly for I have subscribed it, and look forward to hearing more about it.
I’ve also added you to our links.
Kind regards,
Verónica
I recently subscribed to this blog and admire it for its style and originality.
i have added you to my blog
http://casarosada-algarve.blogspot.com/
and would invite you to become a follower.
I’ve been asked to participate in the Tripbase 7 links project? Details here http://blog.tripbase.com/blog/my-7-links-the-rules/ example here http://thepublandlady.blogspot.com/2011/09/pub-landladys-greatest-hits.html, As one the bloggers I read on a more than regular basis would you mind if I nominated your blog as one of my five? I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Rupert Kirby
Dear Rupert:
We also like your blog; it is great to see the perspective of someone who has moved to Portugal. We included a link to your blog in our blog roll a while ago.
We would be happy to be one of your five blogs in the Tripbase 7 links project. Thanks for inviting us.
I look forward to keep reading your posts,
Sergio Rebelo
What a great idea … Congratulations for your blog!
Nice to see you have a blog about Portugal!
Really nice blog, I just subscribed!I am one of those people that fell in love with Portugal and always returns back! I just created a fresh blog about travelling,it’s still under construction but most of my posts are about this wonderful country, whenever you’d like,give it a check!
http://pinchofadventure.wordpress.com/
your blog will definitely be in my blogroll,!Keep posting!
Best regards,
Maria
Thanks for your comment, we look forward to following your blog!
Congrats on your blog! Both entertaining and enlightening.
I´ll have to discover Portugal myself after reading your posts. I have Portuguese ancestry (from Ponte de Lima), that´s one of the reasons, apart from the beauty of the place.
I will add your blog to my blogroll and I invite you to my photoblogs:
http://www.elojodemicamara.wordpress.com (Spanish)
http://www.tryingtodomybest.wordpress.com (English)
You will find mostly photos from Uruguay.
Best regards,
Thanks for your comment. We enjoyed seeing your photos as well as your blog on translation. Are you familiar with “If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, A Memoir”? It is written by a great translator, Gregory Rabassa. He translated the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez into English.
Ponte de Lima is beautiful, we hope you get a chance to check it out!
Thanks a lot for your reply.
Gregory Rabassa´s work is outstanding. Thanks to his translations, English-speaking people have been able to read Latin American authors that were unknown to them before.
He was the subject of one of my posts:
http://translatoruy.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/la-traductologia/
The article is not my own, it was written by Gilda Calleja Medel.
I´ll check your blog regularly.
Best regards,
I just came back from Portugal and am looking to purchase a cataplana! I happened to “run into YOUR blog (and immediately subscribed!!! I LOVED the palace and, well every place we visited over our 11 days…I am longing for the wonderful food and look forward to following your posts!!! Thank you!
It is great to hear that you enjoyed your trip to Portugal! Have you seen our post on Cataplanas?
http://saltofportugal.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/cataplana/
We will soon post about a very good Portuguese cookbook.
Beautiful blog
Only found out about this today, it’s nice to see other blogs dedicated to Portugal. I loved the stories – I post mainly photos but now I feel like writing more.
Best,
Rita
Ola Rita, Thanks for your nice comments. We look forward to reading your posts!
Best, Sergio Rebelo