The Third Place

A portuguese blog, also in english.

The devil is in the details

September 27th, 2007 by Duarte Velez Grilo

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Staying in a shitty hotel makes you appreciate the little details. For example, if the shower’s pressure is good, you tend to spend more time in it than you should, or if the breakfast’s scrambled eggs are good enough, that’s pretty much all you’ll have for breakfast. Everything to take your mind of the communist themed hotel which, I’m sure, they didn’t intend to have a “theme”…

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September 18th, 2007 by Duarte Velez Grilo

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Funny how some of the best food I’ve had in Poland is either Japanese, Indian or Mexican. At least the local beer is quite nice.

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Mental note

September 18th, 2007 by Duarte Velez Grilo

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In Poland, the sign for a men’s toilet is a triangle, and a circle for women’s.

Photo from here.

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Turista culinário acidental

September 15th, 2007 by Duarte Velez Grilo

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Quando se viaja em trabalho, muitas vezes não há tempo para se fazer turismo. No entanto, há pelo menos uma coisa que se tem obrigatoriamente que fazer: comer. Todos os países têm a sua gastronomia própria, mais ou menos saborosa, e que depende de vários factores – temporais, climáticos, culturais, etc. – e experimentar estas coisas também é turismo.

Não sei quando ou se vou continuar a saltar de país em país, mas sempre que o fizer, vou tentar mostrar aqui pelo menos uma receita tradicional do local onde estiver.

Assim, aqui fica o primeiro, “zapiekanka“, um snack fácil e rápido de fazer, da Polónia:

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Ps: Existem várias páginas “sociais” (ou redes sociais, social networks, whatever) que permitem partilhas receitas. Esta que usei, Open Source Food, até nem é das mais potentes, mas é por isso mesmo que a escolhi, porque é simples e fácil de usar. Também estou inscrito em Group Recipes, RecipeThing e Snacksby. Cada uma tem as suas particularidades, mas vão todas dar ao mesmo e é, portanto, uma questão de gosto.

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Portugal-Poland

September 9th, 2007 by Duarte Velez Grilo

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Just came back from watching the match. I didn’t know any portuguese in Warsaw but, thanks to a contact list with dozens of people, I found out where the guys from Contacto meet and enjoyed a game (even more if we’d won) in their company. Nice people, by the way.

And thank you, Pedro.

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Łódź X Warszawa

September 8th, 2007 by Duarte Velez Grilo

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I haven’t seen much of Warsaw until now but, so far, I like it more than Łódź. It’s more “international” (it has more tourists), more vibrant, and the tourist zones actually look like tourist zones, not like a very long street with restaurants with names in English.

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