A new Portuguese tapas and wine bar in the heart of Times Square is a great place to taste hard-to-find wines from Portugal. Tíntol, which is the Portuguese slang word for red wine, has a wine list of more than 150 reasonably priced Portuguese and Spanish wines, as well as 30 wines by the glass…
A flight from Dublin to Paris cost about $600 in the 1990s. Today, it goes for about $50 US, round- trip. That’s why, according to a Washington Post article, “growing numbers of Europeans are buying second homes in other countries because they can afford to travel to them frequently, creating building booms along seasides from…
Ever stayed in a Quinta? I have not yet had the pleasure. But it’s an old family manor house and walled estate with its own garden. The first five-star Quinta to host guests in Madeira Island, and Portugal’s leading boutique hotel, is Quinta de Bela Vista, a 158-year-old manor house that’s been transformed into an…