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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Jan 15, 201621 min read
We Can Have It All... But Not in the Way We Can Imagine (1)
My son and I walking up the steps of Fonte Fria in the National Forest of Buçaco eight years ago on our first property hunt in Portugal...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Sep 14, 201518 min read
"With God Against Man" (13, Final Post)
Ponte de Romano connects an austere wildness near Andorinha. “I would rather be with God against man than with man against God.” These...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Sep 10, 201517 min read
To Everything a Season (12)
Villagers treasure Casa do Vale das Lajes, where we lived while I finished writing PORTUGAL IS PERSONAL. We, still, are making...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Sep 2, 201519 min read
Portugal Is Personal (11)
A reenactment of a successful medieval battle against the Spanish in the village of Santar I have been reading the big Saturday edition...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Aug 26, 201522 min read
Wine: Easy to Drink, Hard to Make (10)
Hewn out of granite outcrop, Senhora da Estrela stands 8 metres, or 26 feet, high near the summit of the Estrela mountains Last Friday...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Aug 19, 201521 min read
I Am of This Village (9)
A surprise terrace of wild chamomile I heard the chirping of cicadas and the occasional conversation among six men softened by their...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Aug 12, 201521 min read
So Nuclear Family (8)
On May 1st, yellow broom is hung on gates, doorways and post boxes in an ancient tradition We have been working very hard getting part of...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Aug 5, 201521 min read
Day of Freedom (7)
Exploring Dolmen da Orca, believed to be a tomb and one of the nine sites on the Azenha/Fiais Pre-Historical Route Days before Easter, or...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Jul 29, 201526 min read
Driving in Circles (6)
The "Carnaval" parade in Canas de Senhorim was two hours of elaborate floats and costumed dancers, accompanied by popular and traditional...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Jul 26, 201514 min read
Nossa Terra, Gosta da Terra (5) (Our Land, Like the Land)
Atop a granite massif stands the unique Palheiras, which are dozens of shelters that some call the old village of Fiais da Beira and...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Jul 25, 201514 min read
Bramble, Bracken and Broom (3)
There is a there there; I am cutting my way through years of neglect to a gate in the courtyard. Every day, I see my bare feet instead of...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Jul 14, 201524 min read
Sugar in Your Coffee? (4)
Caladon in the Mondego River, down below us, on an early autumn day There was no one at the school bus stop on Friday. There were no...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Jul 1, 201529 min read
Liberation Can Find You at Any Age (2)
The three of us loved this abandoned granite ruin on first sight; one of its walls had tumbled down, and the 1.6 hectares, or 4 acres, of...
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