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Restaurant Piazza Di Mare Lisbon

Mónica Boixeda Food and Drink in Lisbon, Lisboeta, Only-Be

A modern and relaxed atmosphere, where they serve pizza, pasta, crêpes and Italian ice creams. They have a Menu of the Day, as well as a Junior one and a group one.

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

Mónica Boixeda Florentine, Only-Be

Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian writer that won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 thanks to his wonderful novel “Cien años de Soledad” (One Hundred Years of Solitude), but he also has many other published writings which are a pleasure to read. Of Love and Other Demons is a short but very intense novel. It´s about the story of forbidden love between a priest who is an assistant to a bishop and a girl interned in a convent. She´s possessed by the devil and he, in his attempt to rescue her from evil, falls madly in love with her and begins secretly seeing her during the nights. The love encounters in the cell of the beautiful girl are in such great written detail by García Márquez that the reader becomes an accomplice of the criminal and passionate act. The girl is called Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles who, despite her name, manages to enjoy sex and the love encounters with the priest. The story takes place in the city of Cartagena in the 18th century, when the church had a fundamental role in society. And this beautiful novel has great cultural value because it tells the details of a society which is unknown to us. And because love stories never grow old, and even less if there´s passion, sensuality and sex involved, reading this little erotic literary gem will motivate many couples in bed. Being a novel of a high sexual content, it becomes a read that is best read accompanied by your partner. Not only the main characters have passionate loving encounters, but also there... read more

The route of Don Quixote in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

Did you know that in Barcelona you can visit the Route of Don Quixote? Cervantes situates Don Quixote in Barcelona at the end of the second part of the novel, when our character is defeated on the beach by the White Moon Knight, which is actually the bachelor Samson Carrasco in disguise. If Cervantes was speaking in the mouth of the celebrated hidalgo, now a Knight , what did he see that left him so admired? Let´s take Rocinante the brave horse and accompanied by our dear faithful squire Sancho Panza, start the route of Don Quixote: Midsummer night is just before dawn. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive in Barcelona thru the west entrance (now known as Pla de Palau) led by the famous outlaw Rocaguinarda Perot also known as “Perot Lo Ladre” (he has street dedicated to him, where it says where was hiding in the city). “thru unusual paths they reach the beach in the ancient island of Maians, where today we find the Catalonia Museum of History. This is where today the Barceloneta begins and where Don Quixote was defeated, which indicates that Cervantes wrote the end of his great novel of chivalry here. In fact, you can visit the Casa de Cervantes (XVI century building in Passeig de Colom, 2). In silence, listening to the waves, they await for the arrival of the day, Antonio Moreno, a friend of the bandit, welcomes them in his house, “it was large and welcoming.” We do not know the exact location, but we know that it was near the harbor, probably in the carrer Ample (called so... read more