Rota do Petisco.

One of the most interesting ideas to know the cuisine of Algarve is happening till 12 of October in five towns in this region – Portimão, Silves, Alvor, Mexilhoeira Grande and Ferragudo. It's called “Rota do Petisco” and it consists of a tour by restaurants to try a “tapa” with a drink, for only 2,5 euros or 2 euros if it is a dessert.

“Rota do Petisco” is happening for the 4th time and since last year has us as big fans. In the first we tried fifteen places with fifteen different dishes and on the second edition only in one evening we already got six stamps in our passports that guide us through this gastronomic journey.

Last saturday we started in Ferragudo, one of the nicest fishermen towns in Algarve. In a place like this the food that comes from the sea has to be in the menu. We started our trip this year with a tasty fish soup in Sueste restaurant. A nice way to start the evening.

Looking at the suggestions of the passport, we decided to go to a place called Q Café, that we already knew from last year. This time the suggestion was a mini-liver francesinha, called Francesquinha. Martyna had a non-meat version with salmon and fresh cheese. At this point we were joined by Nuno's sister and brother-in-law, that were our journey partners for that evening.

We were in the mood to try new things and a shrimp burger in a place called Café Duplex seemed a good challenge. It was. Even though it was small, the shrimp burger, served with mini-toast and ruccula was really tasty and made us wonder why is that not more common to find in restaurants.

Then we decided to cross the river to go to Portimão to continue our “Rota”. We went to the “heart” of this event, in Portimão downtown, where the restaurants are really close to each other, so it's usual to see big groups walking around trying to get stamps to their passports.

We wanted to go back to one of our favourite places from last year, where we tried “bucha de bacalhau”, a kind of a cod sandwich with onion, but many other “roteiristas” had the same idea, so we would have to wait to get our stamp and our meal. And we admit – we were still hungry..

Thinking more with our bellies than with our brains we decided to go to a place that would fill up our stomach a bit more, so bean stew with conch – Feijoada de búzios – in Meco restaurant, seemed to be the best option. And it was, because it was tasty and we had a place to seat. Looking again to our guide/passport, we found another meal that we couldn't miss. Taberna Cool 33 had an octopus toast, that made us walk for 10 minutes to get there. It was worth it, and the place, that we knew from last year made it taste even better.

We couldn't finish the evening without a dessert, and we were decided to eat it, because it wasn't easy to find an available place. After two unsuccesful stops, we decided to check if one of the places where we ate a figg and almonds ice cream last year was in this year Rota. It was, and the ice cream with carob and figg was a great way to finish the night.

If you are near Algarve we recommend at least one evening spent on Rota do Petisco, because for sure we will come back before it ends again!

Poltugal FM - 1996

Scientists manage to clone the first mammal - Dolly the sheep.

1996 in Poland:
Józef Oleksy (Prime Minister) was accused of spying for Russia.
Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska was honored with the Nobel Prize.
20 September 1996 in Warsaw - concert of pop king Michael Jackson. Event introduced the Polish music industry and the platform in the new era.

Polish playlist:
Big cyc - "Makumba"
O.N.A . - "Kiedy powiem sobie dosc"
Urszula - "Konik na biegunach"
Myslovitz - "Z twarza Marylin Monroe"
Blenders - "Ciagnik"
Various Manx - "Orla cien"
DeSu - "Zycie cudem jest"
Songs that didn't fit in the programme:
Kasia Kowalska - "Cos optymistycznego" (with song "Chcę znać swój grzech" finished on 14th place of Eurovision contest)
Anita lipnicka - "Wszystko sie moze zdarzyc"
Kasia Nosowska - "Jesli wiesz co chce powiedziec"
Rotary - "Na jednej z dzikich plaz"

1996 in Portugal:
Presidential Elections in Portugal, Jorge Sampaio elected President of the Republic.
Beggining of recicling programme in Portugal.

Portuguese playlist:
Primitive Reason - "Seven fingered friend"
Da Weasel - "Dou-lhe com a alma"
Os Lunáticos - "Estou na Lua"
Rio Grande - "Postal dos Correios"
Tara Perdida - "Feia"
Lúcia Moniz - "O meu coração não tem cor"

    

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Poltugal FM - 1995

1995 in Poland:
On 1st of January Polish people stoped being millioners. There was made denomination of zloty polish currency - from the previous value was substracted four zeros. These values ​​are in Poland till today.
On 7th of April the first part of subway in Warsaw was opened. After 12 years of building and 70 years after they made decision that it will be built.
In November we chose new president - Aleksander Kwasniewski, that for the next 10 years was the leader of Poland. Another visit of pope John Paul II.

Polish playlist:
Grzegorz Turnau -  "Bracka"
Robert Chojnacki - "Budzikom Smierc"
Oddzial Zamkniety - "Gdyby nie ty"- akustycznie
Justyna Steczkowska - "Dziewczyna Szamana"
Hey - "list"
Dzem - "Skazany na bluesa"

1995 in Portugal:
Legislative elections in October. Government of Cavaco Silva, prime-minister till then, lost elections to António Guterres.

Portuguese playlist:
Mind the Gap - "Pesadelo"
Kussondulola - "Perigosa"
Cool Hipnoise - "Funk é mem' bom"
Íris - "Oh Mãe"
Alcoolémia - "Não sei se mereço"

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Poltugal FM - 1994

1994 in Poland:
In April 1994 government made ​​a formal request for adoption of Poland to the EU.
On 30th of April Poland has its debut at the Eurovision Song Contest. Edyta Gorniak, with the song "To nie ja bylam Ewa," gets the second place in the competition.
May 6th with a visit to Poland arrives  president of USA Bill Clinton.
In August near Warsaw a meteorite fell down

Polish playlist:
Edyta Bartosiewicz - "Sen"
Grzegorz Turnau - "Cichosza"
Various Manx - "Piosenka ksiezycowa"
Perfect - "Calkiem inny kraj"
Raz Dwa Trzy - "I tak warto zyc"
Edyta Gorniak -  "To nie ja" (Eurovision)

1994 in Portugal:
In 24th of June the 25th of April bridge was blocked by truck drivers protesting against the price increase to cross it. The rest of population joined the protest, and severe confrontations between police and protestants injured several people. It was the begining of the end of the government of the Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, now President of the Republic.

Portuguese playlist:
Despe e Siga - "Festa"
Pedro Abrunhosa e Bandemónio - "Não posso mais"
Quinta do Bill - "Filhos da Nação"
GNR - "+ Vale nunca"
Sétima Legião - "Por quem não esqueci"
Sara Tavares - "Chamar a música" (Eurovision)

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Before a castle, then a fort, now only the chapel remains

Today we present you one of the places in Algarve that is worth a visit. In Lagoa Municipality, more specifically near Porches there is a chapel in top of a cliff, entering the sea and separating a beach on the left and another one on the right. In medieval ages, it was castle, then in the XVI century it was a fort, but the waves damaged it. Now only the chapel and white walls remain in the place. Says the legend that the chapel was built in the medieval times because Our Lady appeared in that place, and Portuguese king D. Dinis commanded the construction of the fortified walls to protect it. Last week we were there, and these are the pictures that Martyna made of the place. Plus the pictures she took on her first visit there, in February 2013.

Poltugal FM - 1993

Polish playlist:
Elektryczne Gitary - "Dzieci wybiegly"
Kult - "Baranek"
Hey - "Moja i twoja nadzieja"
KSU - "Moje Bieszczady"
Budka Suflera - "Cisza jak ta"
Pod Budą - "Nie przenoście nam stolicy do Krakowa"
Kazik - "100 milionow"

1993 in Poland:
On 3rd of January was held the first concert of "The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity" - WOSP. It was a beginning of long tradition, since that year every January the concert of WOSP is organised and gathers milions of people who give money to save lives of sick people, especially children.
In 1993 the last soldiers of the Russian army, who were stationed on Polish territory in the time of communism, left.

Portuguese playlist:
Sitiados - "O circo"
Entre aspas - "Criatura da noite"
Dulce Pontes - "Canção do Mar"
UHF -"Menina estás à janela"
Três Tristes Tigres -"O Mundo a meus pés"

1993 in Portugal:
Polish president Lech Walęsa visited Portugal. Portugal on black list of International Amnisty due to violence applied by security forces. Investigation about a serie of prostitutes murders in Lisbon. The suspect was given the name "Lisbon Ripper"

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Why should people take helmets to the beach?

Do you know when is that warm that the only place that seems right is near the water? Algarve is like that since the first days of June. So, where to go on a saturday afternoon? The beach seems obvious, but the problem is that it is so obvious that everyone else thinks about the same. So, to avoid the line and the parking problems in Faro Beach we went East, and we stopped in Fuzeta. A beach in the heart of Ria Formosa, in a small fishermen town, seemed a good choice to avoid the crowd. But it wasn't. It was actually the stereotype of an afternoon spent in the beach in Algarve in Summer. Almost no place to place the towels, noisy "neighbours", and the worst of all violent ones.
We didn't find any reason for the 2 square meters free in the middle of the croweded sand so that seemed a good spot for us. Not even five minutes after we were regreting our decision. A group of male teenagers with their testoterone on fire thought that the beach is a great place to create a "royal rumble" event. After some pushing and grabing one of them just woke up the "karate kid" in him - not likely that he knows who is Daniel-san or Mr. Myagi, but still - and applied a flying kick in the head of the smallest one in the group - what actually makes it less impressive, couse changes the attack onto a low-flying kick. The kid - he regressed to the past with the impact - cryed like a baby, and the "friend" ran to him apologyzing and compensating him with the solution to end the war in the world: "You can punch me in the face to make it even" - what a genious!.
The man - he grew up from kid to adult in a moment - denied and left. "Everything will be ok now? Wrong...". A family next to us got inspired by the fighting scene and decided to do the same. Four grown-ups started to fight their kids in a painful game. Some slapping, some grabbing, some punching - nothing that we didn't see before it that beach minutes before - and a Hello Kitty ball... BAM! in Nuno's face. Intriguing the fact that the adult that threw it was trying to hit a one year old baby that was participating in the familiar WWE event... Time to leave the beach before the "plague" started to contaminate more people and the older ones armed with canes can be really dangerous when becoming violent. The sun was still up, so we walked near the boats planning the one that we will buy in the future - some for sale but we didn't find "the one" yet. In the middle time to eat grilled octopus, delicious for Nuno, too salty for Martyna, and perfect to throw it to the face of the guy that throws balls at peaceful people on the beach :).