As a child, yearning to leave home and go far away…
I read about elsewhere, fantasizing about my freedom. Books were my road. And then, when I was old enough to go, the roads I traveled became the obsessive subject in my own books. Eventually I saw that the most passionate travelers have always also been passionate readers and writers.
– Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel
Portugual
Exploring the Algarve on mainland Portugal
Private chapel at Quinto do Monte, Funchal, which I fictionalized as Our Lady of the Grapes
The “End of the World” at Cabo de San Vicente, Algarve
Funchal, capital of Madeira
Madeira’s breath-taking coastline
Madeira
Porta da Cruz, Madeira
First sighting of the island of Porto Santo in the Madeira Archipelago
Calheta Beach on Porto Santo – Diamantina’s home was at the end of the beach
Town square of Vila Baleira on Porto Santo, decorated for a festival
Part of the original parish church, Nossa Senhora da Piedade, where Diamantina worked
“Barco rabelo” in Porto, on mainland Portugal. A traditional boat used to ferry port wine down the Douro River
Wine cellar in the Gaia district of Porto
View of Lisbon from high above at Castelo de Sao Jorge
Crypt of Vasco de Gama at Mosteiro Dos Jeronimos in Belem, outside of Lisbon. Bonifacio’s body was left at this monastery
