Connecting Across Cultures
For this installment ofΒ Spotlight Traveler, I’d like to introduce you to Lola MΓ©ndez. The more I learn about her, the more impressed I am by what Lola’s accomplished in her short time on the planet. Yes, she’s a world traveler who’s visited fifty-plus countries. But that’s not all. Lola is an advocate for global gender…
Porto’s Festival of Saint John Perhaps you recall my recent mentioning of fish heads? Or of fish-head hats? Of smoking sardines or curly green wigs? Of jubilant crowds to parades floating past while the beats and their throats formed the songs that were sung on the streets with some lyrics I could not work out…
What do green wigs, sardine hats, music, beer, and Saint Anthony have in common? Not much! That’s what I thought — at least until recently, when Lisbon reminded me that travel is full of surprises. I arrived June 12th, on a slightly delayed flight from London, super excited to be back in Portugal after a…