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Troy Nahumko is an award-winning author based in Caceres, Spain. His recent work focuses on travels around the Mediterranean, from Tangier to Istanbul. As a writer and photographer he has contributed to newspapers and media such as Lonely Planet, The Globe and Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Toronto Star, Couterpunch,The Irish World, The Straits Times, The Calgary Herald, Khaleej Times, DW-World, Rabble and El Pais. He also writes a bi-weekly op-ed column 'Camino a Ítaca' for the Spanish newspaper HOY. His book, Stories Left in Stone, Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain is published by the University of Alberta Press. As an ESL materials writer he has worked with publishers such as Macmillan and CUP.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Idanha-a-Velha...Good Coffee starts here


Around these parts the border is porous and exactly where Portuguese villages become Spanish is lost among the cork tree forests (and in today's Europe so is the point). Sometimes the little white houses are fringed with blue sometimes yellow but walk through the immense walls and past the Visigothic church and into a bar and the confusion ends. Even in this quiet stony little village of 79 people  the difference is clear, or should I say... black. Long a source of contraband across the Sierra de Gata into Spain, Portuguese coffee is just...better. Order one and see.

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Originally published on Trazzler

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