Lomito Argentinian Style Steak Restaurant, Northwood

 

Lomito is Spanish for sirloin steak, occasionally a steak sandwich. Who has a steak sandwich? Not usual in England. Only here. That is the whole point. This restaurant is Argentinian style. 

We knew it would be a big meal so we went without a starter, especially as I had already eyed the desserts.

Round Rolls

Up came small warm round rolls with crispy outsides. And oil. If I had known that they served herb butter with the steaks, I would have asked for butter with the bread starter.

Drinks

I drank a glass of Prosecco. Standard fluted glass. 

The two men had glasses of red. The other lady, looking after her sleeping daughter, opted for one apple juice. 

Four styles, cuts, of steak. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Steak Variety

Steak is one of the dishes this restaurant feaatures. Two of our group ordered the steak for two persons deal, and received four types of steak. We started with the fillet and then tried the other three types. The fillet was definitely different. The other three, well, pretty similar, no preference.  

Spatchcock Chicken

Spatchcock chicken at Lomito restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I had the spatchcock chicken. That is split and spread on the plate in an x shape. 

One of our group of four adults opted for the vegetarian pasta, because she has salmon so much at home and in restaurants. 

Pasta at Lomito Restaurant. Photo by Angela Lamsbury.

The flavour was not remarkable and next time she would opt for the salmon.

What about potatoes? The steak dishes come with a choice of potatoes. So I bagged a couple of chips. 

Chips at Lomito restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

My meal came with salad on the side, a mound of greens with small tomatoes. 

at Lomito restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright

Plus a tiny, tasty flower.

at Lomito restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright

Desserts

at Lomito restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright

I opted for the trio of pannacotta. All creamy. Not what I was expecting. Creamy, with different coloured toppings, a bit like cheesecake or mousse in a glass.

A nice touch was real frit on top. Well presented.

A good choice for sharing between three. Too much for one. I would not order that again. Unless sharing or taking some home.

Tiramisu In A Wafer

at Lomito restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright

 The tiramisu was unusual. Not the usual sponge biscuits, but a large wafer. for an edible bowl. Definitely different. Not my taste, but the tiramisu fan liked it. 

at Lomito restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright

Decor

The decor is interesting. Cows or bulls and ethically dressed gaucho figures, the horsemen who are beloved symbols of Argentina and South America - with a guitar, all very jolly and atmospheric.

Seating and Booking

We managed to get the last table, booking on the day. The frontage of the restaurant looks a modest size, with a doorway between two glass windows. Inside there's an open kitchen area on your right, tables on your left, a staircase in the middle down to more tables in a basement, more tables at the side and back, and another room off the back which might suit a large group or birthday party.

Toilets

The toilets were on the ground floor at the back. The handicapped toilet was on the right inside the door to the washbasins shared by the ladies and gents. The handicapped area as usual had its own washbasin which I liked, having manoevred myself inside with my walking frame.

at Lomito restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright

The fancy gilded double toilet roll holder was a nice glamorous touch. 

We were too full for coffee. 

Take Away & Leftovers

The other couple took home a portion of tiramisu for a late night snack, and because the four year old slept through the entire meal in her push chair, having had an exciting but exhusitng day at Wobrn Safari park (see my previous post.

Regarding my leftovers, not much. Just a tiny amount of salad. The brown box had a slot lid which came apart in my shoulder bag and left a mess, so I would take care to place it in a plastic bag on another occasion.

On a return visit, I would opt to try the sticky toffee pudding instead. (As a dessert a holic, for a fine restaurant, my top choice would be Mill Hill's restaurant with apple strudel, or a take away strudel from B & K in Hatch End.)

But for delightful decor, something different on the menu, great steaks, and smiling service, we were happy with Lomito.

Where Is It?

Northwood is an upmarket area on the Uxbridge Road, in north west London.

Driving west towards Heathrow from Edgware, Hatch End, Pinner, when you reach the main high street you have Northwood station and Waitrose on your left, Lomito at the far end. 

Parking

On Saturday night in August 2025 I was relieved to see that parking ws free in the high street outside the restaurant after 6.30 pm,

Lastly, remind us about Argentina. Don't cry for me Argentina. Its the southern tip and upwards of South America. Second largest south American country after Brazil. 

Useful Websites

https://www.lomitorestaurants.com/

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Wine Museums Worldwide - WOW - which ones to visit?

WoW stands for World of Wine, also the exlamation, wow! It is a huge wine complex in Portugal, on the hillside overlooking the river. The city is called Oporto, Oporto, on a hillside above the port in Portugal, easy to remember. But that's not the only place to find a wine museum.

After the London Wine Fair, where I saw the stand of Georgia, which claims to be the birthplace of wine, I started thinking about wine museums. Some have supermarket size shops and restaurants. Others have cellar doors offering tastings, sometimes free food, other times platters of food if you have a group and book and pay - and mini-shops, and vineyard visits, with self-guided or guided tours.

I have visited Vineyards all over the world, and I have been to the memorable wine museums in Cyprus and Italy. 

Italy

Italy has huge mosaic floors from Roman villas, showing the Gods of wine, and the Romans reclining and drinking.

The one in Torgiano, Italy is in Umbria, next door to and west of Tuscany, not far from Florence. 

France 

Paris has a wine museum. 

Beyond Paris is Rheims in the Champagne area. There numerous Champagne houses offer tours and tastings.

In France, the port of Marseilles was established for the ships carrying wine. 

Bordeaux has a huge modern museum of wine. The name Bordeaux means border or edge of the water, meaning waterway. Wine drinking and export dates back to the time before air travel and even proper passable roads. Then travel was mainly by boats down rivers and in ships across seas.

Portugal

In Europe the biggest range of museums and gifts such as wine stoppers and socks was in WOW in Portugal. A series of museums on a hillside, like Disney, kept us busy all day.Videos, tastings, and a plastic tumbler to take home included in the price.

The Douro museum, along the river Douro, included a sniff section. The large ground floor shop entertained me with wine soaps and novelties.

Museu do Douro, Portugal. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

USA

California has many wineries, vineyards and shops attached. We drove along, up north from San Francisco. As we got further from the big city, the price of a corkscrew got lower and lower. One of the vineyards had a train tour, but we arrived too late. 

I saw lots of great gifts. In addition to wines, corkscrews, wine racks, bottle covers. Books for keeping a record of wine you've tried and liked. Books for storing bottle labels. 

Websites of Wine Museums: 

• Vino Versum Poysdorf, Austria
• Wine Museum (Pleven), Bulgaria
• Wine Museum, Ehnen, Luxembourg
• Wine Museum and Enoteca, Brazil
• Cyprus Wine Museum, Limassol District, Cyprus
• Macau Wine Museum, Macau, SAR China
• Musée du Vin (Wine Museum of Paris), France
• https://www.bordeaux-tourism.co.uk/cultural-heritage/wine-trade-museum.html#:~:text=Discover%20the%20history%20of%20the,better%20understanding%20of%20Bordeaux%20wines. Bordeaux, France
• Museo del vino (Torgiano), Italy
• Douro Museum, Portugal
• WOW (World of Wine), Porto, Portugal
• Drăgășani Wine Museum, Romania
• Yilan Distillery Chia Chi Lan Wine Museum, Taiwan
• https://www.wineinvestment.com/learn/magazine/2021/05/seven-wine-museums-to-put-on-your-travel-bucket-list/
• Other wine museums are in Georgia, and South Africa.
• https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/travel/best-winemaking-history-musuems/?srsltid=AfmBOoqzqokP-8sps2EpFXIhSY0DOMgXWFRycZtFFHAO1WKp6bNWtsJy
• California Wine Museum Antique Shop, USA

Napa Valley wine train (lunches and day tours)

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2015 Àguas de março SANT ANDREU JAZZ BAND ALBA ARMENGOU RITA PAYES JOEL ... and The Girl From Ipanema, Portuguese language, Brazilian weather

This is the earliest and slowest of two recordings of this song, which my family found on the internet.

Portuguese language songs. I looked up the words in Portuguese of the band's song Triste, then translated it into English. 

the song doesn't really go anywhere. Many of this genre are just reptitions of the theme of love or unrequited love, romance, mood and the weather.

If you are not into Jazz, or think you are not, let me explain how my attitude has evolved.  As a teenager, I liked music with a pronounced beat which I and partners could dance to. I like ballads and songs which told a story, were affirmative rather than negative. I was happy with trad jazz songs, such as When the Saints go marching in.  But I was bored and confused by modern jazz. Now that has changed.

Jazz seemed a waste of time because it seems to lack what to me were the essential qualities of both the music and the words.  My husband is a jazz fan and enlightened me about modern jazz. 

Let's start with one of the most recorded songs which you probably know, or should know, which is a Brazilian popular song and jazz and bossa nova..

'The Girl from Ipanema" (Portuguese title "Garota de Ipanema") is one of the most recorded songs of all time, allegedly only second to The Beatles' "Yesterday," as well as one of the most famous bossa nova jazz songs ever.' Frank Sinatra, Madonna and Amy Winehouse have sung versions of it.

Bossa nova means new trend or new wave.  Nova, new. The adjective new comes after the noun in Portuguese.  Bossa nova was derived from samba, with more added.

Samba had lots of percussion and flambuoyant costumes, reminiscent of Rio's carnival.

Samba started in the early 1900s. Bossa Nova took over in the 1950s and 1960s. The Girl from Ipanema was created in 1962 by a song-writing pair, a musical partnership. Composer Tom Jobin. Lyrics (words) by Vinicius de Moraes. 

The girl who inspired the song can be seen in Wikipedia and various articles about the song and her.

If you ever visit Brazil, Madeira or Portugal, these words from maps, signs and songs will be useful.

 Handy English- Portuguese translations

Portuguese - English

aguas - waters/rainfall

amor - love

avenida - avenue

casa - house

castelo - castle

de - of

eu - I

Eu te amo - I love you (literally I you love, subject, object, verb)

jardim - garden

Marca - March (noun, the month)

meu - me/mine

nova - new

pinheiro - pine tree, pine tree forest (Place name)

ponte - bridge

porto - harbour

rio - river

rua - street

torre -  tower

triste - sad 

English - Portuguese

avenida - avenue

bridge - ponte

castle - castelo

garden - jardim

harbour - porto

house - casa

I - eu

love - amor

me/mine - meu

new - nova

of - de

old - velha (feminine) velho (masculine)

pine tree/pine tree forest - pinheiro

rain - aguas

river - rio

sad - triste (the same word in French)

street - rua

tower - torre

Useful Websites

https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/what-is-bossa-nova-music/

https://kidadl.com/baby-names/inspiration/portuguese-last-names-with-meanings-and-history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helo%C3%ADsa_Pinheiro

https://www.houseofnames.com/pinheiro-family-crest

The girl from Ipanama, in Brazil. Helo Pinheiro.

This straw hat promotes Brazil's Ceara, the seafront skyscraper capital city on the NE coast, Forteleza, and birthplace of author Jose de Alencar

 

Angela Lansbury in straw hat promoting Brazil, advertising the northern Ceara area. Selfie Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I have not yet visited Brazil, so my straw hat which has a hat-band advertising Ceara in Brazil must have come from the World Travel Market. The World Travel Market is a trade show held in November in London at a conference centre in the East End of London reached on driverless the monorail. The Elizabeth line will make the East End of London easier to reach. Now let's look at Brazil and Ceara.

Brazil and Ceara Region

The upward accent is on the second a, the last letter of the name Ceara. It is the acute accent, stressed.

The language of Brazil is Portuguese, unlike the rest of South America which speaks Spanish. I shall tell you about the hat, then about Brazil's Ceara region, the author and his novelist's heroine.

Hat Style

The hat is the same shape as a fedora (shown in felt in Wikipedia) which has a crease from the front to the back on the crown. The brim curves up all around. Mine falls over my eyes and has to be lifted to show my face in photos, at which point the hat-band is invisible, hidden behind the brim. Of course, a taller person will see the hat-band, and my face when I look up at them.

Straw hats from central and South America may be sold as Panama hats.

Straw Hat Advantages

1 Light weight.

2 Summery and seaside or countryside look.

3 Suits the South American image. 

4 Neutral colour matches everything.

5 Hatbands can be added using ribbon to match your clothes. 

Straw Hat Disadvantages

1 So light that it can easily fall off or blow away. 

Remedy a) You need ribbons to hold the hat on when looking down from a clifftop, or in breeze on the mountains or at the seaside or in a high wind on a boat.

Needs a double string or ribbon added to hold it on under the chin. The ribbons could be sewn on at the sides. When the hat is worn, if you cannot tie a neat bow, or if the ribbons don't match your outfit, the ribbons can be concealed under the hair at the back. 

Remedy b) In a hurry, you can tie a scarf over the top, over both ears. Tie a bow at the top or under your chin or behind your head and under your hair.

2 The straw in the top of the crown can scratch your head. 

Remedy. If so, wear a lighter cloth hat or scarf underneath. You can tuck in the scarf so that it does not show. Or use a scarf to match your outfit and match the hatband.

SIMILAR HAT STYLE NAMES

fedora

Homburg

The stetson or cowboy hat looks larger to me, with a triple crease and turned up wide brim.

FORTELEZA

The capital city of Ceara is Forteleza, a seafront, skyscraper city.

I remember the capital's name as fort, el as in hotel, eza easy, ah.

In the area, buy cheap clothes and hammocks, at the beachfront fair, market near the cathedral, shopping mall(s) and 24 hour supermarkets.

What to see and do in Ceara, NE Brazil: 

Apart from eating drinking, and being on the beach (daytime, not night), 

local dancing, 

waterfalls, 

cathedrals, 

museums and monuments about the abolition of slavery which took place here in advance of other parts of Brazil

Jose de Al honoured writer and heroine of his books, A  Iracema, in street names and beaches.

Iracema statue on the beach named after her, Praia de Iracema, Foreleza, Ceara, Brazil. hoto by daviddwiki

Eat and Drink

Rice and beans (in this NE region with melted cheese instead of gravy) and drink coconut.

Useful Websites

Travel

The North east coast is known for beaches and waterfalls. The capital is Fortaleza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Brazil

Hats

My first use of the straw hat recently was in a photo of myself in a dress bought in Cyprus, made in India. featuring a painting of a palm trees.

https://dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com/2022/06/dress-1-troodos.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cear

Portuguese Accents

Duolingo teaches you accents on simple words such as water and the and tests that you have learned by giving you questions with answer options

https://www.duolingo.com/skill/pt/Basics-1/3

Long and complicated explanation of Portuguese accents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_orthography

Over-simplified version

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_alphabet#:~:text=The%20accents%20used%20in%20Portuguese,open%2C%20closed%20and%20nasal%20vowels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Language

To order bulk buy of promotional hats (shown with a plain black band) for just over two pounds.

https://www.bigbearpromo.co.uk/natural-straw-hat?gclid=Cj0KCQjwhqaVBhCxARIsAHK1tiNl2Tn7IQuvxW_j7cUGLsTCk0qCwZoqsnHzrDp2Njr-CbHc4rweeDAaAoHkEALw_wcB

Only two pounds UK and money off if you sign up as a new member on Shein. Flat brim straw hat (might be plastic imitation)

https://www.shein.co.uk/Minimalist-Straw-Hat-p-8987602-cat-1772.html?url_from=ukadplasc

Tarp hats from recycled tarpaulin

https://www.tarphat.co.uk/

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Useful Websites

Portuguese Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Portuguese

Hats

My first use of the straw hat recently was in a photo of myself in a dress bought in Cyprus, made in India. featuring a painting of a palm trees.

https://dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com/2022/06/dress-1-troodos.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cear

https://wikitravel.org/en/Cear%C3%A1

Author  José de Alencar 

His novel Five Minutes is a romantic novel about a man who is five minutes late and ends up on a bus next to a veiled woman who constantly writes him notes but eludes him, eventually reveals she is dying, yet marries him and recovers).

Iracema - is the name of the book's heroine. Her name means honey lips, and also a play on the letters of the word America. The indigenous heroine marries a man allied to her people's enemy, the colonialists, and their son unites Brazilians. 

The author's statue is in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Theatre named after acclaimed author Jose de Alencar, Ceara, Brazil

Statue of Brazilian author Jose de Alencar, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iracema

• (in Portuguese) Academia Brasileira de Letras
• (in Portuguese) Brazilian literature
• (in English) Iracema, The Honey-lips - A legend of Brazil. (translated by Richard F. and Isabel Burton.)
•  Iracema public domain audiobook at LibriVox
• 
  

Homestay? What can you plant? The grape-like bonsai Jaboticaba.

Phot by Adamantiaf in Wikipedia article on Jaboticaba.

Here's the latest fruit to try and buy and grow. Jaboticaba. (Also sometimes spelled Jabuticaba.)
It looks like a grape and grows on the trunks of trees.

You can buy online seeds to plant, hopefully growing a bonsai tree. Worldwide shopping and they say free worldwide shipping.

Brazil
The plants are common in Brazil where you can buy the fruit.(Also other South American countries.) Each fruit has a sour (astringent) skin which you spit out, and a sweet white or pink juicy centre like a grape and one to four seeds.

The fruit soon ferments. You can use the fruit for james and jellies and 'wine' or rather a strongly alcoholic spirit.

Something to look for on your next trip to South America. Meanwhile, you can grow it at home.

Useful Websites
https://bestseedsonline.com/100-pcs-delicious-fruit-plant-bonsai-tree-family-jabuticaba-novel-brazilian-grape/?

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Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and phtographer, author and speaker. Member of several toastmasters international speaking clubs, one permanently online, Singapore Online International, also online during Covid-19, three Singapore clubs and one in the UK, Harrovians.
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The Portuguese flag and Portuguese words for colours

Lockdown is lifting. Get ready for your next trip to Portugal, Madeira, Brazil, or to reading about trips to these places and more news on Praia da Luz and Madeleine McCann.


Portuguese flag

Portuguese - English

English - Portuguese

Do you have
a Portuguese flag

Português - inglês
Inglês - português
Você tem
uma bandeira portuguesa

red
orange
yellow
green
blue

vermelho - red (like vermilion)
laranja (like orange)
amarelo
verde (like verdant)
azul

navy blue/dark blue
violet
purple
pink
black - white

Português - inglês Inglês - português Você tem azul marinho / azul escuro (like marine, like obscure) tolet (violet and tolet both end with et) roxa Rosa (like rose pink) Preto - black; branco - white (like blank white paper)

grey
not grey

striped
patterned

no striped
polka dots

coloured
multi coloured

bright colours
pale colours

cinzento
não cinza
listrado (striped like lines crossing out a shopping list)
estampado (pattern stamped on it)
não listrado
bolinhas
colori - coloured
multi colorido - multi coloured
cores brilhantes - brilliant colours

cores pálidas - pale colours

I like
I want
small
bigger

how much
cheaper

Perfect
I'll buy it

Thank you
Goodbye

Eu gosto
eu quero
pequeno
Maior (big or major)

quanto
mais barato (m for much or more)
Perfeito - perfect PERFE .T in both words
Vou comprar
Obrigado - obliged/much obliged/ thanks
Adeus - like mixing Spanish adios with French adieu

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember:  tinyurl.com/BHACOOL

Useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
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translate.google.com
duolingo.com

Second set of Portuguese words - learn 15 easy to remember words

 Flag of Portugal

 Flag of Brazil

I can't stop learning Portuguese and Spanish.

English - Portuguese

taxi - taxi
hotel- hotel
bank - banco
port - puerto
blue - azul - (like azure which is a bright blue)

name - nome
first name - primeiro nome (like primary school)
family name/surname - sobrenome
table - mesa
room - quarto (like living quarters)

one - um (like French un and English one - remember: How many? Um - one.)
two - dois (like two dice)
three - três (tr as in triple, tricycle, trio; think of three trespassers)
four - quatro (like quadrangle in English and quarter and quatre in French)
ten - dez (sounds a bit like decimal)

Useful Websites
Languages
translate google
duolingo
duolingo.com

https://www.visitbrasil.com/key-information/language.html
memrise
memrise.com
https://www.mezzoguild.com/portuguese-and-brazilian/

Travel
https://www.visitportugal.com/en
https://www.visitbrasil.com/

About the Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, speaker, author, and teacher of languages.
Latest book: An ebook  Improve Your English. Several books by different authors have that title. Make sure to add the name Angela Lansbury.
I have written a post about the Spanish restaurant in Melaka, called Salud which means cheers.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Footballer's Statue and My Favourite Sites in Portugal, Madeira and Portuguese Speaking Brazil

Portugal
First stop
is Lisbon.


Lisbon's Belem tower, a symbol of the city.

Monument to Henry the Navigator
At a distance the figures are very small. You need a zoom lens. You may prefer to read up about the statue people shown in advance of your visit, using Wikipedia or a guidebook.

The Algarve sandy beaches and rock formations.
See the Punta da Piedade (Point of mercy).

On one occasion we flew direct to Faro airport and did fly-drive, picking up a hire car.
On another holiday we enjoyed the drive south through cork trees down the west coast of Portugal.

Portugal Travel Highlights -
Lisbon, the capital city

Port and Douro Wine Route, Portugal
Algarve beaches via Faro airport

Madeira
In the capital Funchal you will find two or more Madeira wine locations. We booked from home in advance for all of our hiking group. A centrally located shop where you can book a Madeira tasting and talk for a group is Pereiro D'Oliveriras. We had previously met their rep when they were giving a tasting of Madeira wines in a wine shop in Eton in the UK.

Company Pereira D`Oliveiras, Funchal

Karelj - Own work. Wikipedia.

MADEIRA
Known for Madeira wine, switchback road, walks along the levadas, and the visual appeal of the little triangular houses, one of which we saw was a flower shop where I bought fruit seeds.

Cristiano Ronaldo, football player, statue by Madeiran sculptor Ricardo Velosa in Funchal, Madeira. Photo by TeWeBs in Wikipedia.
The airport was renamed Cristiano Ronaldo. A bust of the player was controversial as some people did not think it was a likeness or that it was not flattering. So the full size sculpture was commissioned.

You can also visit a museum all about the football player and an adjacent hotel.

Vineyard growing among other cultures in the tropical influenced climate near Santana, Madeira.

Karel Vízner, GEUM - Self-photographed

wine fields near town Santana, Madeira.

BRAZIL
Brazilian Tourist Board
https://www.visitbrasil.com/
See Rio, the beach, and the modern city of Brasilia.




Useful Websites

Travel

Portuguese Tourist Board

https://www.visitportugal.com/en

Pousadas

https://www.pousadasportugal.com/

Language

http://duolingo.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language
https://translate.google.com/

earwormslearning.com

Madeira
https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/madeira
Story of vintage Madeira wind discovered in the USA
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/madeira-wine-two-hundred-year-old-found-fortified-cellar-new-jersey-liberty-hall-union-a7835881.html
http://www.kean.edu/libertyhall/about/history
Football Museum
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museu_CR7
duolingo.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira

TOURIST BOARDS GROUPED TOGETHER

visitportugal.com

visitbrasil.com

http://www.visitmadeira.pt/en-gb/homepage

ANGELA LANSBURY BLOG POSTS

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/port-and-portuguese-wine-labels-and.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/how-to-ask-for-food-and-drink-in.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/learn-your-first-ten-words-in.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/how-do-you-say-please-in-portuguese-is.

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Where To See Statues Of Gandhi

I delivered an opening speech to a Toastmasters International meeting featuring a quotation by Gandhi.

Gandhi's Quotes

• Be the change you want to see.
• Earth provides enough for every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
• You do not know who is important to you until you lose them.
• An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
• Happiness is when what you think, say and do are in harmony.

Attributed to Gandhi:
The customer is not an interruption of our work, he is the purpose of it. A longer version reads:

• A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. 
• He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
•  He is not an interruption of our work. He is the purpose of it. 
• He is not an outsider of our business. He is part of it. 
• We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so.”

Plaque displaying one of Gandhi's quotes on rumour

Agnelvishal - Own work

"Do not listen to rumour. If you do, do not believe it." Very relevant today where fake news is prevalent.

Gandhi's Statues

Flag of India on a postage stamp.

India
Bangalore, at Vidhana Soudha

Author

Moheen Reeyad  (1990–)

Brazil
Sao Paulo

Canada
York University

Spain
Madrid

Statue of Gandhi, Madrid, Spain.

York university, Canada. Bust of Gandhi.




Mahatma Gandhi at Praça Túlio Fontoura, São Paulo, Brazil.

Sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi by Gautam Pal, São Paulo, Brazil - bronze.

Summary[edit]

Description	Feita em bronze, a obra de Gautam Pal foi doada pela Índia como reconhecimento ao trabalho da Associação Palas Athena na divulgação do pensamento de Gandhi no Brasil. Com 1,80 de altura e 400 quilos, ficará na praça Túlio Fontoura, numa clareira de um bosque de eucaliptos, entre a Assembléia Legislativa e o parque Ibirapuera, onde será criado o Espaço Gandhi. ( Fonte Folha Online 13/08/2002 - 09h43 )
Date	16 December 2006, 02:05:50
Source	Own work
Author	Sérgio Valle Duarte

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/08/02/gandhi-customer/
http://www.incredibleindia-tourism.org/
http://www.airindia.in/
Air India is a member of Star Alliance, as is Singapore Airlines.
singaporeair,com

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