One of the joys of being in Portugal, of course, is that calories don’t exist here. This is just an established fact, really, so don’t even start, k? K.
I’m not sure how it works, exactly, I’m just grateful that it does. Similar calorie-free hotspots are littered everywhere but home. Weird. Ireland now has calories, you know, having introduced them towards the very end of 2004 - just as I arrived to set up home. What were the chances?
The picture (above) shows a detail from a recent, resoundingly guilt-free, breakfast. The other picture, meanwhile, if you look carefully, shows Noddy out and about, enjoying the sleekit cafe lifestyle of southern Europeans.