It was with great pleasure that I got to write about my favourite aspect of Porto – the street art – for the Wizz Air inflight magazine. Those who have visited Porto will know it can be a rather mysterious and grey city (and does get a tad gloomy in winter...), but everywhere you look, the walls pop to life with cheeky street art characters. I love it. 

I recently wrote articles for the inflight magazines of Australia's national carrier, Qantas, and Ireland's national carrier, Aer Lingus, about Portugal's beautiful capital. Read my stories to find out my top picks of where to eat, drink, visit and stay in Lisbon.

I had the pleasure of road testing Portugal's CR7 hotels in Funchal (Madeira Island) and Lisbon, which are the product of a partnership between the world's greatest football star (or soccer star for my Aussie readers) and Portugal's largest hotel group, Pestana. 

Rotunda da Boavista, also known as Praça de Mouzinho de Albuquerque or simply ‘The Boavista Roundabout’, is one of the largest squares (or circles, rather) in Porto. ​

My good self was recently featured in Portugal's national newspaper Diário de Notícias, so here's a link to the article 'A australiana que promove Portugal como destino turístico' about my work promoting Portugal as a tourist destination. Understanding Portuguese will help :-) 

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​Lonely Planet recently let me take over their Instagram account for a weekend to showcase some of my favourite off-the-beaten-path places in Portugal. In case you missed it, here are my pics (including a photo that turned out to be one of Lonely Planet's most liked photos of all time), plus a few extras :-)

Did you know that many of Porto's tightly-packed tiled buildings have gardens out the back? Here's my pick of 11 secret gardens to scope out on your next visit to Porto, as written for Lonely Planet.

I wrote an article covering interesting facts about Porto, so it seemed only fair to give Portugal’s capital some love too.
 
Here are some things you might not know about Lisbon.

In my post Interesting facts about Porto I mentioned that many street names in Portugal take the date of pertinent historical events.
 
As well as dates, such as 31 de Janeiro and 25 de Abril, many people’s names also pop up again and again on street signs, buildings and monuments. So in this post I decided to do some delving to see who these famous folks were.