• Prazeres cemetery

    November 24, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ 🌬 19 °C

    Today we started our day with the delicious breakfast at the same Russian cafe. Then we decided to do a VoiceMap tour of a famous Lisbon cemetery - if not for the VoiceMap, we would never probably hear about it, but it was very comparable, if not better, than Recoleta in Buenos Aires or Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. The tour was very interesting, telling fascinating stories about many of the cemetery residents. I find that famous cemeteries, despite being the place for the dead, really bring a place alive through the stories of lives long gone. We then went to the second day of tango workshop, and capped the night with the delicious dinner of sea bass and duck. We then went to another local milonga which was in a very cool space, but unfortunately it was quite empty.Read more