There is a story behind every word in the Portuguese spoken in the Azores. Sometimes multiple stories. This is a collection of a First Generation American-Azorean, trying to understand her Mother's Homeland and Home Language. And everything it means.
Friday, July 3, 2015
The Moorish Influence on Faro
Walking through Faro today, getting lost by myself and wandering with family, I was amazed by what I had forgotten and what I remembered.
The immediate area around where I am staying is layered with family history. Decades of generations of cousins living here. And I am still trying to find the place where my father proposed to my mother!
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