Fado and dinner

Tile Museum

Jan and I walked down to the waterfront to the Fado Museum to find out a little more about Portuguese music.  Fado means "fate" and from the movie we viewed of famous fado singers, the fado style seem to express a yearning or strong sentiment by singing meaningful lyrics  and are often accompanied by the guitarra and viola de fado ( The later looks like a mandolin type instrument to me but has 6 double steel strings) Amalia Rodrigues was one of the famous fado singers born in the 1920's..  My favorite part of the museum was sitting down with a set of headphones and listening to recordings of a variety of fado singers. There was a special art exhibit that I  intrigued me showing one or more fado artists in one painting depending on where you stood.

For dinner tonight we made our way using the metro green line to meet some friends of Susan that will be joining us on our Experience Plus bike tour starting on  Saturday.  We met at Cervejaria Ramiro, a restaurant that featured shrimp and shellfish.  It was a bit interesting trying to order our dinner by weight in kg. but somehow we muddled through and got heaping plates full of large shrimp along with bread and butter.  Simple, plain, no sides, delicious.  We traveled back to a pastry shop right at the corner or "our" street that our apartment is on for a little dessert indulgence.

Good thing we are off early to go on a mountain bike and kayaking adventure through a National Park tomorrow to work it all off!