Sports
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152Mariam Thaler: My Top 3 Lisbon rock climbing destinations include two new facilities
Portugal doesn’t only offer beaches and waves. There are great places for going rock climbing and bouldering indoors and outdoors, which for...
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218Krav Maga instructor Rita Ramalho: A woman excelling in a male-dominated sport
I was curious about the posture and the body language of this young Portuguese woman. I thought, “Finally a woman who would...
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257Sarah Nagaty: Lisbon offers a wide variety of affordable facilities for sports, dance and even martial arts
Lisbon is one of those cities where all types of relatively affordable sports are available to you within walking distance or a...
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456Amelia Anderson: My guide to the best places in London to go wild swimming (and lidos, if you must)
(Editor’s note: It’s been one of the hottest, driest summers in Europe’s history, and – no surprise – wild swimming increasingly is...
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654Mónica Da Silva in Lisbon: The adventurous expat hearts behind the Algarve Watersport project
(Editor’s note: This is an expanded, follow up to an earlier travel post that mentioned Algarve Watersport. Dispatches does not participate in...
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1.1KGiant waves of Nazaré: Portugal’s most impressive natural spectacle draws big crowds including ‘crazy-ass surfers’
(Editor’s note: It’s Big Wave season right now through March in Nazaré, Portugal. See more details at the end of this post.)...
