Our trip to Aveiro Portugal had so many reasons and aspirations; we needed a veneer for our language, we needed to interact with Portuguese speaking people and we needed to learn more about Portuguese culture. These of course were the official reasons, but we all had oh so many personal feelings.
For some it was a trip back in time, a trip taken a long time ago with parents, comparing it to sights and sounds of the now. A trip with husband and children, recollecting all those lunches shared. A promise made to somehow get a scholarship to study in Portugal. To the young ‘hot’ guys memories of all those pretty Lusitan girls who still remembered them fondly. To a professor a culmination of a dream slogged for tirelessly.
Nostalgia for everyone who had been to Portugal before.
But for Alexandre and me, it was a voyage of discovery; it was our ‘por mares nunca dantes navegado’. Alexandre who knows so much about Portugal studied from those books at Liceu. For me a culmination of a dream and as Dhruv puts it ‘ A cherry on the cake’.
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