António Vieira da Cruz

(também publicado no Jacaré )   Divido os onze candidatos em três categorias: os democratas, os autoritários e os outros. Os autoritários: António Filipe (PCP), André Ventura (Chega), Catarina Martins (BE), Jorge Pinto (L) e André Pestana (ex-PCP, ex-BE, ex-MAS) não são exactamente democratas. As ideologias que os inspiram são irreconciliáveis com a separação de poderes, a liberdade de expressão e outros aspectos fundamentais do Estado de Direito Democrático. Se algum destes candidatos se visse no poder, nenhum de nós poderia prever a data e a forma das próximas eleições. Os democratas: Henrique Gouveia e Melo (Almirante) tinha porte presidencial e uma imagem de competência, no entanto depreciou a sua reputação ao embarcar numa campanha negativa com truques e insinuações. Luís Marques Mendes (PSD) seria o que tem mais experiência governativa e quem conhece melhor as exigências do cargo presidencial, porém o conselho que prestou a empresas nos últimos anos não teve bom acolhimento p...

(também publicado no Substack ) My first travels began at home, going back and forth from the kitchen to the living room. As a child sitting next to my mother, I was amazed by how she poured steaming water and tea leaves into the teapot. Simultaneously, we would prepare a tray with warm scones, slices of bread, crackers, butter, honey, and tomato jam. It was cold outside, so we had our tea by the fireplace. Those were the days! I have always loved tea. Infusions of other aromatic plants never gave me as much joy as real tea. I learned at home to take my tea without sugar, and only rarely with a cloud of milk to mask any excessive bitterness. If I had a sore throat, a spoonful of honey and a sliver of lemon peel were also acceptable. However, in the 1990s, most tea in Lisbon was sold in teabags; if we ordered loose-leaf tea in specialty shops, there were few variations of black tea and lower-quality green tea. And it was difficult to find a nice Oolong. Lisbon: As a teenager living i...