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ME Lisbon just opened its doors; and yes, it’s another hotel, but not like that. It radiates an energy this city needs. Portuguese art, craft and design, a rooftop pool bar with ridiculous views, a spa called KORPO that I walked out of a different person, and Fismuler downstairs doing exactly what a free-spirited, artisanal restaurant should do. But Joana Astolfi’s pop-up “Everything I Couldn’t Leave Behind” is the real reason to go: tactile, theatrical, slightly melancholic, half dream, half décor, with a quietly undercooled humour running underneath it all. World class, without the attitude✨

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Back again at the wonderful Casa do Comum to present this year’s Lisbon International Film Festival 🎬
Three nights of cinema, strange beauty, bold stories and conversations that tend to continue downstairs over a drink.

21 films from 10 countries.
25–26–27 May.
Free entrance. Free drink. No red carpet nonsense.

/ Rua da Rosa 285 / Bairro Alto / Lisbon

✨reserve your free ticket via the link in bio✨

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This was Lisbon this week: a battle between Atlantic wind and spring vibes, jacarandas turning the city purple, Alfama busy hammering itself into shape for the Festas Populares, terraces overflowing with tourists, old traditions stubbornly kept alive.

One moment too hot, the next freezing in the wind.
Still, the city carries on with its usual mix of caffeine, chaos and collective resilience 🍹

✨Meanwhile in Lisbon…
Centuries-old devotion, marching bands, clouds of incense, grandmothers crying softly on balconies, tourists wondering what planet they just landed on.
Today Lisbon celebrates the Procissão de Nossa Senhora da Saúde, a tradition with roots in the 16th century✨

magnificent soundtrack by the one and only Rogério Barros✨

big smile moment: Observador published an interview with me about storytelling, hidden city narratives, tourism, creativity, wandering through neighborhoods, and my slightly chaotic life as an “urban nomad” between Ghent and Lisbon.

Huge thanks to samiafiates for the thoughtful text and to for the beautiful photos (and for surviving my endless weird pose suggestions 😄). Very grateful for this piece and for everyone who keeps following my adventures through Portugal, stories, cities and human encounters.

Lisbon, you complicated beautiful thing 🤍

Ps: jumpsuit by Vos Vos 💃🏻

✨ a fresh new edition of Storytelling in Tourism classes is officially out in the wild ✨

4 evenings, completely free, in English

A healthy mix of storytelling, tourism, curiosity, inspiring fieldwork and wandering through Lisbon.

We’ll explore how tourism can become something more meaningful than speed-consumption-with-a-view, using active methods and place-based exercises in and around the city.

📍 Lisbon
📍 Escola de Hotelaria e Turismo de Lisboa (near metro Rato)
🎓 Free course
👣 Includes fieldwork and active city exploration
🔗 You can still subscribe via the link in bio

Limited spaces.

Excessive curiosity encouraged.

Spring is in the air at

Lydija Kolovrat at CAM in Lisbon today. Baroque. Sensual. Luxurious. Dreamlike, yet unmistakably sharp.

A tiny, wonderful exhibition. Not about theatre, yet theatre everywhere you look. The word theatre comes from the Greek theáomai which once simply meant “to look”, and João Timóteo and Xavier Ovídio gently pull us into their world and remind us to look a little better, a little slower, a little more freely. Brilha enquanto vive; shine while you’re alive. Until 14 March in

Lisbon’s very first hostel, Living Lounge, is where travellers stay and locals drop by.

Now there’s Paula’s cooking workshop 😋
Her roots travel from Goa to Mozambique to Portugal, and so do the flavours: fish curry, frango piri-piri, carne de porco alentejana, pastel de nata.

Tonight’s table stretched from Dublin, Utrecht and Saint Petersburg to Lisbon, Paris, Ghent and Maputo.
Verdict: delicious. Also slightly dangerous, because you’ll want more!

Workshop: 35€ with dinner.

Dinner only: 15€.

Every Thursday from 5pm.

Dinner served around 8pm.

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