The Secret Map
Travel Essays by Simon Slater
Category: Portugal
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Lisbon. April, 2024. “Hello.” “Hi” “Travelling, are you?” “Yes.” I replied, slightly baffled. A young Irish gentleman had been waiting for me to finish my morning pan au chocolate and coffee on my final day of a week-long trip to Lisbon, and confronted me with a positive yet beguiling stretch of small talk After this…
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The following images are from a recent trip to the Algarve, southern Portugal. Six old school friends and I embarked on your standard ‘lads holiday’, a British pastime of which I hadn’t experienced for a whole 15 years. Days were spent relaxing by the pool of the enormous and ostentatious villa we had rented, or…
The Secret Map 