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
I love your professional quality photographs of Portugal and can live vicariously through your posts so I nominated your site for the “Versatile Blogger Award.” Congratulations! If you go to http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/ or my site (http://bibliopharm.wordpress.com/), you will find the information on the award, how to pass it along and then you can download the badge on your site if you want.
Thank you so much Bibliopharm for the nice words and the nomination!
Sérgio Rebelo,
parabéns pela ideia e concretização deste blog. Gostaria de lhe colocar a seguinte pergunta: tenho um pequeno hotel de charme numa vila histórica em Portugal, que por razões diversas preciso vender. Saberia indicar-me contactos de imobiliárias ou interessados credíveis aí nos EUA? Fico muito grata por me dispensar do seu tempo.
I have a charming hotel to sell in Portugal. If you know someone interested, I appreciate your help. Regards. Sofia
Talvez uma agencia internacional como a Sotheby’s seja a melhor aposta. Vimos a web site do seu hotel e ficamos encantados!
Olá tive a sorte de ver na televisao a sua entrevista e fiquei encantada pela fantastica divulgacao de Portugal e das boas coisas Portuguesas ” que sao muitas”. Venho pedir que visite o nosso site http://www.montedoareeiro.com, um turismo rural no Ribatejo, e se gostar que o divulgue.
Obrigada e bem haja
Maria Joao
Muito obrigado pelas suas palavras. Adicionamos o Monte de Areeiro à lista dos sítios a visitar.
Inteligente, elegante, imaginativo… notável blog! fresco como uma brisa marinha, sedutor como uma Marylin de 20 anos, surpreendente como um verso de Pessoa…
PARABENS !!!
Muito obrigado pelas suas palavras tão simpáticas!
Hello,
your blog is really very beautiful. The photos look great.
greeting
I love your blog! Its very interesting
What a wonderful blog–beautifully done! I enjoyed it very much. It makes me want to go to Portugal. Thank you.
Thanks! Portugal is a place where you can have an unforgettable vacation. If you ever decide to go, we’re happy to suggest an itinerary that fits your interests. Just let us know!
Hello,
your Blog is very wonderful; congratulations!
Thanks for your encouragement!
Hello there,
I just thought I would drop you a line as my mum Jenny Grainer has written a book about Portugal that you might like? It is free today and this weekend on kindle, and I was hoping that if you liked it enough, you might mention it on your blog? it’s a lovely collection of true stories.
Firewater, potholes & sardines – stories of a Brit abroad (Portugal and the Algarve Now & Then)
Now also available in Kindle format, this is a collection of warm, humourous, sentimental, personal and socially insightful true stories of a Brit abroad. A wonderful cross section of a life sliced into freshly remembered memoirs, easy for the reader to enjoy on a plane, by the pool or in the office during lunch, to discover more about a charming country from someone who has truly experienced it.
Donkeys, social (mis) adventures, political changes through the 60′s and 70′s, rickety ambulances, boozy Bert, sardines, celebrities, relationships, ladies of the night and more are all fondly captured in stories and recounted for your enjoyment and to bring you closer to this wonderful country.
This collection of stories document Portugal’s growth and development through the eyes of an Englishwoman.
Please email me on sophiegist [at] yahoo [dot] com with any questions at all, she is in the UK until Monday and I am helping her understand kindle better, thank you. I’m trying to learn more about promotion also as you can tell!
Thank you
Sophie Gist
Awesome Blog regading tourist place in Portugal…..It enjoyed reading the beauty of blog the way it presented…I must suggest to all my friends to visit this place..Please post some more picture of different Hotels,natural beauty and travel places also…:) Great job.