Teach me about Portugal and the Portuguese

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>>71972678

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>>71972678
suebi.

I'm interested as well

>>71972678
I'm Portuguese, AMA.

>>71972678
their towels are top tier

It's like a shit version of Spain

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>>71975222
How do I get a Portuguese gf

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>>71976167
Fuck if I know.

Find them abroad. They will never put out here out of fear of being shamed by their friends. It's a whole fucking ordeal down here.

>>71972678
Just a melancholic catholic cunt, if you know a lot about football and like to eat you'll make friends
>>71976167
Dress and behave like a chav

>>71976444
Why is Portugal so melancholic?

>>71975222
could you please name a town/region which has old buildings and nice scenery and all that shit. Preferably not lots of tourists but fairly accessible from an airport

>>71976870

because they have been emmigrating in great numbers for centuries

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>>71972678
Suebi

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>>71976870
I think it goes back to the discoveries when husbands left their families behind and people had to wait for 2 years before knowing if they would even survive, let alone come back. This continued until today with the emigration. It's just part of our culture to either leave Portugal and miss it, or stay in Portugal and miss those that went away.

Then you have the fact that we live on a mountainous, fairly rainy and windy place with a violent ocean and nobody around (Spain is mostly empty and coastal).

Then you have the whole feeling of being the first and last sea empire to exist yet the country is still fairly poor and not very relevant anymore.

Then it just stuck, so aside from watching football we're rather stoic and calm, which contrasts a lot with the Spanish stereotypes. Also we drink a fuckton of wine.

>>71977027
Braga/Coimbra are my go-to cities for tourists wanting something quieter and beautiful. Porto is but also very nice, and some places around Lisbon like Sintra are also very beautiful, but these are bigger cities.

Pic related is Coimbra. Great student/nightlife and small enough to fully explore in one week without rushing.

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>>71977208
And this is Braga.

>>71977208
Portugal is Windy and rainy? I thought it was a sunny Paradise!

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>>71977781
It is most days, we're the country with the most sunlight hours per year.

But Portugal is basically the whole western side of the Iberian plateaus, next to the Atlantic. When it rains, it really fucking pours, so in the north we end up having more percipitation than London (but not western Britain/Ireland).

Keep in mind that most people live by the sea, in the North, and/or on the side of a mountain, so most of Portugal's landscape is fairly greener than, say, most of Spain's.

We do have sunny beaches on the south, but few people actually live there permanently, and even the workers just migrate south in the Summer.

>>71977208
>>71977411
closest airport to Braga/Coimbra?

>>71978125
Definitely Porto. But Lisbon's isn't too far away, either. It's just 2 hours to Coimbra and maybe 3 or 4 to Braga. Porto is 1,5 hour to each.

>>71978194
flights are fairly cheap but require a stop in schiphol. Suppose it's not a bad place to stop, I've been there a couple times. Good chance I'm going to Portugal this year then xxx

>>71976870
Did you ever play Dark Souls?

Same thing.

Portugal is melancholic because it literally feels like you're living in the ashes of a fallen empire that fell under it's own weight.

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Am Portuguese. Live in glorious Northern Portugal.

AMA.

>>71979754
Not so much ashes, but empty buildings.

But people aren't sad thinking about the discoveries. We are just a stoic bunch, overall.

Poortugal is like a poorer, smaller and less relevant version of ASSpain, and browner...if it's possible to be browner than Spain.

>>71975310
Kek.

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>>71977960
>western Britain/Ireland
Nice

>>71972678
Like Spain but better

Wait, yes, it is possible to be browner than Spain. Here lies the living proof, of course if you consider turds as living entities >>71982793

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>>71982849
>>71982686

tfw the first bait fails and you turn to Italy to see if you can fish something

>>71972678
girl on the right looks like a younger version of my gf

little spain

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>>71972678
>spansh women buying portugese towels.jpg