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Loving - The Movie. A beautiful portrayal of a forgotten civil rights story

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Ruth Negga (2 nd from right) stars as Mildred and Joel Edgerton (right) stars as Richard in Jeff Nichols LOVING, a Focus Features release. Credit : Ben Rothstein / Focus Features   Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving grew up in the rural unincorporated town of Central Point, Virginia. They met in high school, spent time together, and eventually, when Mildred became pregnant, decided to marry. But this was the 1950’s and Mildred was African American and Richard was white. Virginia had anti-miscegenation laws which made their marriage illegal. How did these two young people get beyond Jim Crow and fall in love? Well that had a lot to with Central Point VA. Central Point was and is still a very rural area. At a distance of about 90 miles south east from Washington DC it was community with a history of poor farmers, black and white, ignoring the rules of segregation, living together. According to a 2012 article in the Washington Post , Central Point and Caroline Count...
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Lisbon's Bairro Alto and Carmo Archeological Museum

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  The old center of Lisbon is divided into three sections. There is Baixa, which occupies a valley between two hills. To the east is a hill which is covered by the Alfama neighborhood. To the west are the Chiado and Bairro Alto neighborhoods, and that is where my travels have taken me this week. My morning began at the Carmo Archeological Museum . In 1423, the Carmelite Sisters opened a monastery on the hillside of Chiado, overlooking Baixa. In 1755 Lisbon was struck by a major earthquake (7.7 or greater), which destroyed most of the buildings in Lisbon, including the chapel of the Carmo Monastery. By the early part of the 19th century, the monastery had been taken over by the Portuguese National Military Police. In 1864 the chapel was gifted to the Association of Portuguese Archeologists, who turned it into a museum. They took on the task of rebuilding and restoring the facade and walls of the chapel. They made to decision to not repair the roof of the chapel, which had completely...
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Location: Largo do Carmo, 1200-092 Lisboa, Portugal
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Eat, Drink, Walk Food Tour in Lisbon, Portugal

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Canned Fish at Sol e Pesca   Visiting a new city can be exciting. It can also be nerve wracking to figure out what to do. I have found that taking a food tour is a great introduction to a new place. In Lisbon I had a chance to take a great one. Eat, Drink, Walk is a family run tour company that offers several options for exploring the food scene in Lisbon and its surrounding area. I met up with my friend and fellow travel writer Paul, and his granddaughter Katie, to enjoy the Chiado tour and be introduced to some amazing food. Mercado de Ribeira Filomena, our guide for the day, met us at the Time Out Market, which occupies the oldest public market in Lisbon. The Mercado da Ribeira opened in 1892 on the riverfront, along Av. 24 de Julho. For most of its history is served as the city’s main food market. Today, half of the building still serves that role, with stalls selling fruit, vegetables, meat, and fish.       Bouquets of basil leaves Ananas, a relative of the pi...
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Location: Lisbon, Portugal
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