portugal | Roaming Woman

vanessavecellio

Jun 25, 20211 min read

Return to Lisbon.

This is a prelude, a short interlude to the best story of my 14 months away. We came back to Lisbon to divert to other locations, other...

vanessavecellio

Jun 17, 20213 min read

Sintra, Portugal.

Meltdowns and Ginja. I arrive at dawn at Lisbon Oriente, the architecture is incredible bathed in the early morning light and then I take...

vanessavecellio

Nov 29, 20203 min read

Porto -Home of the most beautiful bookshop in the world.

The old taxi driver, doubled over at right angles with a hunched back, insisted on putting my bags in his taxi. He tells me in...

vanessavecellio

Nov 26, 20205 min read

Sintra - Roosters, swallows and eccentrics.

I'm in the mountains of Sintra where the nobility of Portugal built their palaces and villas to escape the heat of summer, as you do. My...

vanessavecellio

Nov 23, 20203 min read

Lisbon - Of tarts and tiles.

I've worked my way down through Spain to Lisbon. I get a taxi to the hotel with a woman driver. That's a rarity here as in most places. ...