{"id":1610,"date":"2026-10-06T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:50:58","slug":"sat-3-october-lisbon-city-and-dinner-with-georges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/06\/sat-3-october-lisbon-city-and-dinner-with-georges\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat 3 October – Lisbon City and Dinner with Georges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lady on the side of the road with chocolate cups and a bottle of liquor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evidence of a local Ancient Roman Amphitheatre (Cavea). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is Ant\u00f3nio Jos\u00e9 de Sousa Manoel de Menezes Severim de Noronha – who was the Duke who fought in the 1828-1834 to kick out the King who siezed absolute control and put his brother back in with a Constitutional Monarchy. He served as Prime Minister a couple of times.
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This is a Novelty shop that just sells Sardines. (The idea is that you buy a can with your birth year on it.) I like a good Sardine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We stopped at a food market – the Mercado De Ribeira. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a statue of Bernardo de S\u00e1 Nogueira de Figueiredo a Prime Minister who served in the “Liberal Wars” (same as above). He was Prime Minster and abolished slavery in the Portuguese colonies – and lost his arm in the war. He pushed for educational expansions and Constitutional liberalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a franchise that is easy to mis-translate into English as a place a middle-aged man might talk his dog for a walk on a Saturday afternoon. In fact it is teenage girl knick-knacks and fashion “Ali-ooop”.
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Dinner with Matt and Louise.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walk to their local country fair with dodgem cars and show treats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hugh went with Cal on the dodems and roller coaster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portugal has a more relaxed approach to liquor licensing than Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking at the flavours of the toppings you can get on Churros – one stood out – “Morango”. What is a Morango? I imagined it was a kind of blood-orange mango. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It turns out it is strawberry – a word that seems to be different in lots of different European languages. I imagine some words are just too precious to yield to empire linguistic standardisation. I imagine a Lusitani (pre-Roman Celtic occupants of Lisbon) having to cope with Roman rule and saying “We’ll take this woke latin language, but a Morango will always be a Morango!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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