June 26, 2022

TASCA da BADALHOCA — a 120 year old tavern, serving a century-old favorite in Porto, Portgugal

TASCA de BADALHOCA. One of the oldest taverns in Porto, Tasca da Badalhoca, has endured for 120 years by serving the same sandwich over and

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Hi, I’m Phyl!

I’m a lapsed travel writer and photographer and have been absent from these pages for too long.

My niche is: “adaptive re-use of space” which translates to re-using or re-purposing old buildings for a new life while retaining their historic integrity. This is gaining momentum world wide and we are seeing old buildings such as banks and post offices transformed into high fashion boutique hotels, abandoned warehouses becoming restaurants and coffee houses, and revivifying entire neighborhoods that would otherwise have been flattened by the bulldozer. What’s old is new again and people love the patina of age that enhances these developments and sets them apart from new construction.

Please read on to see where I’ve been more recently and what I’ve been doing.

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TASCA da BADALHOCA — a 120 year old tavern, serving a century-old favorite in Porto, Portgugal

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