Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Some quick notes on the BPM Portugal conference in Lisbon last week. It was international in the sense that there were a few ‘foreigners’ like me, who did their presentations in English, but otherwise most of the conference was in …
I’ll admit it: I’m running away. This would-be holiday has instead been more like an endurance-test often verging on the kind of nightmare that won’t stop but also won’t let you wake up. What it certainly hasn’t been is either …
A quick note about Internet in Portugal. Wi-fi is available in the larger hotels, such as the Ibis chain at which I often stay, but it is not free – in fact an absurd €5/hr or €20/day (i.e. more than …
Just spent a couple of days in the university city of Coimbra, roughly in the centre of the country. Last time I came through here, all manner of serendipitous matters occurred – good cafe conversations, a play, a Brazilian comedic-poet, …