Rua Augusta, in the Baixa district, Lisbon

The D&O Diary is on assignment in Europe, with a first stop in the beautiful Portuguese city of Lisbon (known to the locals as Lisboa). Travel can take you lots of places, but if you are really fortunate, travel will take you to Lisbon, one of the world’s great places and one of The D&O Diary’s all-time favorite destinations.Continue Reading Bela Lisboa

Lisbon

The D&O Diary continued its European sojourn with a visit last week to the sun-drenched and, even though it was still just April, summerlike, country of Portugal. I have to say that writing this blog post about our visit to Portugal was as much fun as I have ever had in writing for this site. Portugal, my friends, is a wonderful place, as I believe the pictures below will show. Continue Reading Portugal

Torre de Belém

The D&O Diary’s European assignment continued last week with a stopover in Lisbon, Portugal’s hilly capital city, known to the locals as Lisboa. It is located on the north side of the Rio Tejo (known as the Tagus River in English). The city itself has about 550,000 residents, but the city’s sprawling metropolitan area has about 2.7 million residents. Lisbon may not have the allure of some other European capitals, but it has an abundance of history and charm; a diversity of interesting neighborhoods to explore; and an abundance of great food, as reflected in the pictures below.
Continue Reading A Visit to Lisbon

The D&O Diary is on assignment in Europe this week, with the first stop along the way in the beautiful, historic and sun-drenched city of Lisbon, or as the natives say, Lisboa.

Lisbon is the westernmost capital city in Europe, with a population of about 550,000 in the city proper, and a total of