Home is where the beach is
Get a dose of Vitamin Sea with this guide to the best beaches in Lisbon. Whether you like catching wild waves or floating about in calmer waters we’ve got you all covered – all but the sunscreen.
Ask me how much I miss the constant rain of London right about now? Or perhaps, you’d like to know if I yearn for those three-hour treks at rush-hour to The Hamptons of Fire Island, along with the rest of New York City (seemingly all 10-million New Yorkers, all at once, equalling the entire population of Portugal in one city) beelining it to escape to the beach the moment May arrives?
There are plenty of fish in the sea
And Lisbon has them all.
This is a city serving up some of the best seafood I have tasted a bold statement coming from someone whose former stint as a food critic (albeit brief, there are way too many calories in food critiquing) in New York City where I spent my affirmative years writing all the restaurant articles BlackBook and The New York Post would permit me this inadvertently led to my myriad seaside escapades across the Amalfi Coast, South of France and Spain. All of these super-classy jaunts have seen me sucking the last bit of juice from every poor lobster tail I ever got my own greasy claws on.
A thrift in perspective By Sarah Polonsky, in News, Lisbon · 23-04-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
My favourite kind of therapy is retail. While both my psychologist mother (sorry Dr. Mum!) and my discernibly light wallet may disagree, my wardrobe wants, no needs, an update.
Sometimes, I swear I can actually hear the siren sound of my closet calling out like a ghost in the night, “hang something new up in me, anything, please”. Don’t ever judge a person for having an intimate relationship with their closet.
After being locked down in Lisbon all this time, I know I am not the only one who has been rotating the same three pairs of tracksuit bottoms for months. It is depressing (and we have had enough to be depressed about this year). No prescription for Prozac will fix it either. However, with stores now opening,