Places & flavours to know before you go
Guides to Portugal written from inside it - by a Lisbon tour guide and a Romanian photographer who married here. Fewer crowds, better tables, and the streets we actually walk.
Edgar & Diana - licensed guide & photographer.
80 stories from Portugal and beyond.
Monserrate Palace, Sintra 
20/26 – Here we are again.
2020. The last post. A tram, an empty Lisbon, masks, and a promise to come back soon. 2026. Six years later. Here we are, writing down our memories again.
Fresh from the journal
Hopping on a Lisbon tram during pandemics
2019. 8.30 a.m.. Middle of the week. Long line of tourists waiting to experience a tram ride. 2020. 8:30 a.m..… Updated Oct 2026 1 min read
Hunting great places to eat in Lisbon
I confess that the title of the article is a bit misleading. We don’t go hunting for great places to… Updated Oct 2026 5 min read
Costa Vicentina on an Indian summer
Costa Vicentina is the place to drive and slow down the car because really, why the rush to get anywhere… Updated Oct 2026 1 min read
Cacela Velha, a dreamy little village in Algarve, Portugal
When I think about the art of slow living, a little village by the sea, with a beach down the… Updated Oct 2026 1 min read
We are Edgar & Diana - he guides, she shoots
Edgar is a licensed Portuguese tour guide with 15 years of showing people his country. Diana is a Romanian writer and photographer who came to Lisbon for an internship and stayed for good. This blog is where our trips end up - the places and flavours we tell our friends about.
Coming to Portugal in person? Edgar runs private tours in Lisbon, Sintra, Évora and beyond - guided in your own language.
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