# @cookingwithrel on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-04-17T19:09:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ariel (@cookingwithrel) — https://gondola.cc/cookingwithrel

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Portugal, a small but fishy country you are. 🐟🦐🦑🦪 Thank you for ending my shrimp head dry spell at last. 

Having not traveled outside of the US since 2018, Portugal felt like the perfect appetizer (for what I hope to be the beginning of my international travels again). Lured by the salty sea, colorful tiles and cornucopia of mollusks, I recruited my family to join. I think it was an easy yes. And lucky for me, my Parisian soul sis agreed to fly in for a weekend. ♥️ 

We kept it simple, Lisbon + Porto with a day in the Duoro wine valley and a stop at Nazaré on the coast. In the past, I would have said that we need to see it all, but I’m learning that more is not always better. Sometimes the joy is in the simplicity of sitting in a square and really taking it in.

A few highlights: 
-Eating flaky Pastéis de Nata at midnight on 1 hour of sleep 
-Wandering and (mostly) tripping over the old cobblestones of Lisbon
-Inhaling fried small mackerel like a bowl of popcorn, washed down with a Super Bock
-Announcing my loyalty Super Bock (the Porto favorite) as the superior beer to Sagres, sorry Lisbon
-Discovering the world of Port and falling in love with a Tawny
-Listening to chilling Fado music with a group of strangers in an old guitar shop
-Finally finding some street cats after 7 days of searching, not really a cat country huh?
-Dumping out the terrible massive coffee a barista made me because I’m an American 😅 Even though I did not ask for that…
-Watching the Duoro valley unfold in front of me like a painting in the Louvre

Not all trips are perfect and I feel that I must disclose that the shrimp heads did in fact win. They always win. Infer what you will. But it wont stop me, I am resilient. 🦐

#portugal #lisbon #porto #travelportugal

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