Encontrei Frank Bruni pela primeira vez no Yahoo News! com um artigo bastante antipático sobre o catolicismo.

Ao procurar mais informações deparei-me com um artigo adorável sobre Lisboa que ele escreveu para o The New York Times, uma autêntica declaração de amor.

Creio que compensou o primeiro artigo. :)

Aqui fica, a quem interessar...

Cassima



How I Fell for Lisbon

WE meet the places we wind up loving much the way we meet the people we fall for: on purpose and accidentally; at precisely the right moment and exactly the wrong time; in the highest of spirits and the lowest of moods.

I met Lisbon in a snit. I was exhausted and impatient and thinking well past it, to the northern Portugal city of Oporto and the wine country nearby, my ultimate destination and real interest. Lisbon was just a 24-hour stopover, reached after a sleepless overnight flight from New York, and my hotel there didn’t want to let my companion and me check in and nap and shower and get into clean clothes for another six hours. After some fruitless groveling, we staggered into the streets, lacking a map or an agenda or any particular desire.

Immediately we noticed the castle. You can’t fail to. Medieval and partly Moorish, it sits astride one of the highest of the city’s many hills, both a topographical and an emotional point of reference, somewhat like the Parthenon in Athens. Your eyes are drawn to it. The rest of you, too.

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