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You can get so stressed in your day job.

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You can get so depressed at times.

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And then, when you travel...

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You can just forget about
all that and be free.

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You can do what you want.

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You don't have constraints that
everyone's everyday life brings.

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It's... Iit's like medicine!

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José Saramago once wrote:

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"We always arrive in the place
where someone is waiting for us."

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What if, however,
that someone is a city?

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After all, do cities not have hearts?

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I believe they do.

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Some a warm and some a cold.

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But each has its own essential personality.

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Do you arrive at a city
which is waiting for us?

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It’s how I felt about Lisbon.

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It has been waiting for my visit.

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One thing I knew about Portugal of course,

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was football.

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But I didn't have
to tell you the truth,

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a specific idea of Lisbon.

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Something more exotic.

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Something very interesting.

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And the people?

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They have the same flavor as the buildings.

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They’ve been built up, torn down, 
burned down, smacked down and built again…

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Only to remain strong.

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I was right at home.

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From the very first time

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I felt like I was in my house.

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I liked the people.

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Some say they are sad or strange,

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I don't know... I felt at home.

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This comfortable feeling
left a mark on me.

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Few cities can leave
a fingerprint in your identity.

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I love the smells, I love...

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I love the broken pieces,
I love the old pieces,

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I love the new pieces,
I love the smelly streets,

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the weird corners in Alfama,

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with lots of possibilities to get lost.

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This city has a personality
that loves the ocean,

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that loves fish,

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loves wine, loves music
and to dance.

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It's a city that loves to be outside.

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There are many public spaces.

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 There is so much life in the streets.

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It's a city that feels like a village.

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People live in the neighborhoods
just as if it was in a village.

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Here people to people contact
is what matters.

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One of the things that caught my attention

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was the cafes

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and to see so many people
willing to have a coffee.

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What were they talking about?

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Why did they drink so much coffee?

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I didn't know what these people
cooked all the time,

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but everything smelled delicious.

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Always!

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Amazing people, amazing culture,

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amazing history and...

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That's how I live my life.

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I live and breathe culture and history

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and that's exactly what Lisbon gives you.

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It's the sense of freedom,
it's the sense of culture

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and that feeling it's just irreplaceable.

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Friendly people of all colors, religions,
cultures living together in peace.

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Lots of green spaces with places to sit,

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read, sleep, do sport, meditate...

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Live.

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Free Wi-Fi  all over the place.

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Good to travel by bike and on foot,

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but also big enough to be cosmopolitan.

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You have this sort of
very young hip population in Lisbon

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on top of these really old buildings.

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It's really cool to see life
moving forwards

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as buildings stay stuck in time.

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There are clocks spread all over the city

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and all point to different time.

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The old stores where people

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are still handwriting the bills
on pieces of paper.

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It's just like travelling back in time.

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The modern life didn't destroy
the core of their identity.

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The city kept its character.

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I could imagine myself living here!

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This city embodies what I feel like

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and what energy I want
to surround myself with.

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 I didn't want to live my life

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stressing and worrying
about the money I make.

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And I think that's the kind of feel
the city gives me.

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Someone once said:

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"- When you do what you like,
that is freedom.

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When you like what you do,
that is happiness."

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When I think of Lisbon,
two words come to my mind.

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Which are... Happy place.

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Lisbon is my happy place.

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Lisbon, would you come with me?

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All I have to offer you is me!

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All of me.

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It's possible to have pure happiness

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 if you're doing something
you absolutely love.

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And it teaches you that you need
to concentrate on that

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a lot more than you do
in your nine to five.

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And just take time for yourself,

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be yourself and do what you like doing.

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After all, nothing lasts forever...
And you should enjoy life!