Tag: saramago
Bike and kayak in Lisbon and Arrábida
Lisbon is great to visit by bike – provided you start at the top of a hill. And when you’re done with the city, the beautiful coastline awaits!
Baltasar and Blimunda
Saramago’s breakthrough novel in English, full of contrasts and landscapes but lacking his later spark.
The Gospel According To Jesus Christ
Saramago shows surprisingly more respect for his subject than could be expected, but his narrative genius is as dependable as ever.
Death at Intervals
Saramago is the sort of funny old man I would’ve loved to have read bedtime stories to me when I was a kid.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Once Upon A Time In The West
Sergio Leone’s long, brooding scenes and dusty, sunbaked malevolence reach their apotheosis.
- Originally published: 4 Feb 2008 in Film
Casablanca
Play it as many times as you want, Sam. I’ll not get tired of it!
- Originally published: 22 Feb 2007 in Film
Orval
3/5. Dark and fizzy, unexpectedly light and bitter. Flavours include grass, orange peel and grapefruit.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2010 in Beer
The white stuff
Home of the world’s most famous white beer, Hoegaarden is surrounded by the vast wheat fields needed to brew the stuff.
- Originally published: 14 Aug 2010 in Walking
I am 27 today
Birthdays are a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how much more you have yet to achieve in life.
- Originally published: 26 Jun 2006 in Editorial
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.