In this video, I wander through the streets of Porto, Portugal to get inside the mind of the Portuguese. I meet and talk to different people on the streets, and also ask the locals for certain phrases and sayings that are popular in their culture. I visit an old handmade brush shop (the only one in the entire Iberian Peninsula) and watch different artists and musicians paint a beautiful picture of my last days in Portugal.
--- Thanks for watching, I really loved Portugal and met so many interesting people. I hope you enjoyed coming along with me for the ride! See you wherever I end up next!
Ross
Would you like to live in Portugal?
I love it, it's my country, good morning, thank you very much and good morning, be careful.
Playing the concertina, feeling the emotions of people, is a kind of sharing that gives me some sustenance to be able to continue and with joy is much more fixed.
Good morning, today is my last day in Portugal.
As you can see, I didn't bring my razor, so I have a little shade of five hours, or whatever they call it.
But I'm gonna take advantage of this last day, see if I can talk to some interesting people and I'm gonna walk the streets, like Flünder does.
Ross, please, please, what country are you from?
I am from America, from the United States.
Ah, congratulations to Trump and Biden too.
Trump and Biden? Yeah, yeah, you two.
A North American gentleman was here and said that we suffered, the Porto, from an incurable disease.
And I asked him what it was and he said sympathy.
That's what he said, I didn't invent it.
Portugal and Spain were the same country, we were Iberians.
That's why even today we say we are brothers.
The politicians at the time, as always, in 1143 decided to separate.
It became Spain as we know it today and Portugal as we know it today.
But we continue to be, as they say, brothers.
What's your name?
It's a YouTube channel.
The best Ginja of Óbidos.
Ginja de Óbidos, which is a medieval villa.
For me it's much nicer than Lisbon, for example.
Not that the south is pretty, but there's more here.
It was a Santa.
I was born here, I was a barefoot girl.
Without shoes?
My father died when he was 29.
I left four children on the way, three months, three years, me five and my brother nine.
My mother didn't work.
Are you happy?
Not at this hour, because my husband lives alone.
My husband was found dead two months ago.
But I have children, they have their own lives, don't they?
They have their lives and I have mine.
How many years were you married to him?
52 years.
Whoa.
I'm going to do it.
Do you think there is a philosophy that most Portuguese people live by?
Or do you think that's more...
That's very cliché, but I think we're very...
Or what we call saudazistas.
Because of the word saudade.
What is it?
It's when you lose someone, but it's very hard to explain because there's no translation for it.
Watch out for that.
It's a feeling of nostalgia for that person or that thing.
And usually people can turn around, but it's like they're not turning around anymore.
So it's like a deep feeling.
So we have these...
I think we're happy people, but at the same time we have this little thing
We are nostalgic, melancholy, and deeply moved.
That's why music speaks, isn't it?
I miss you so much.
Yeah, I think that's the definition of expressing nostalgia.
Yes, all right.
I was being artistic.
Hugo, what's up?
Hugo, all right.
- What?
I was born in Switzerland.
I'm living here and I'm not going back to Switzerland.
When I was nine, my mother was Portuguese, my father Spanish, and we were immigrants in Switzerland.
Do you have an Instagram?
Yes, this is the S.O.S. Estêncil.
S.O.S. is in place, okay.
I'm going to go.
Ah, you're French.
You study here?
- Yes, I did.
Ah, all right.
You got a channel?
This is an Escovaria do Belo Monte.
It was founded in 1927.
I'm a third generation.
We make industrial, household and personal handkerchiefs.
We make them as brushes all by hand.
Here, the name is, this is Vassoura.
Vassouras, is it?
And brushes are these things.
This is it.
For example, these are also brushes.
These are escovilhões.
And these are called tocas.
Very interesting.
Hello, my name is...
Tomas um coffeezinho?
Ah, yes, obrigado. I was just...
In Iberia, nobody works our way.
We only use natural materials.
And these materials are quite expensive.
And we can do it almost for a client, for our own client.
A client comes in and says,
I want a scarf for my face.
I wear a certain type of suit.
Good quality.
And I don't want to waste it.
So, this quality scoop really only here in these titles.
Because it's not made by machine.
I made one.
If I want to buy a physical book, I'll keep it.
I have one with me.
It's a piece that stays with me.
No Biasbo is going to be involved.
You buy an escova from those baratinhas.
And in three months, four months, no more tens.
There's some time ago, there's here a year ago or something.
We recovered a broom that had been bought here in 1937.
We find out when we open a scoop to recover.
And there was our brand.
Can you say a typical Portuguese phrase?
I'll have a glass of wine after lunch.
Vika is a very typical expression.
It's cold as hell.
We are lawyers.
We're going to Porto Agora.
I hope we win your case.
Viva o Porto, my dear!
Ser do Porto is to be tripeiro.
Water mole in stone hard, so much so that even fur.
At night, all the guards of Porto,
The guards are sorry.
Do what I say, don't do what I do.
In time of war, they don't clean themselves as weapons,
Go sell me and get me a log.
And be older than I am without drugs.
You are a son, you will be a father.
He who is content with his lot, is happy to death.
Whoever desdenha, wants to buy.
No fondo, we discuss mucho con una persona,
But we're always arguing with her.
All the mole and the ugly in Deus.
A woman and a sardine want to be smaller.
Depressed and well, there is no one.
What does that mean?
Basically, you can walk to any place here in the center.
You can go to the park, to the beach, anywhere.
Basically, I think you have a little bit of everything.
And also, it's not as proud as Lisbon,
But I also have a lot of movement.
What is Portuguese?
Or is there something that many people don't know about Portuguese?
They're always late.
I don't know if you know that.
We're famous for being late.
What more?
They like to eat too.
Good food, especially Portuguese food.
- I'm not going anywhere.
I don't remember anything else.
That's great.
Thank you very much.
Okay, so I was talking to a lot of Portuguese people,
I met a girl.
What's her name?
Marina, but she's not Portuguese.
Where are you from?
I'm from Russia.
So she wanted me to say some typical Russian phrases.
That means who wakes up first,
I'm not going to get into the pants.
As slippers?
As slippers.
Like slippers, but like flacas.
What's a Russian girl doing in Portugal?
Why are you here for how many years?
I've been here for almost six years.
Six very happy years.
I was studying here,
And then I met a Portuguese and a Portuguese citizen.
So here the weather doesn't try to kill you,
Like in Russia.
So here we have muito sol, bom vinho,
And very, very nice people.
And good food.
And not Mr Putin.
And when I make my Rasta Flaneur channel,
When we go to Russia,
Will you be our tour guide?
Yeah, I'll try that later.
At that time, why not?
Okay, you heard me, guys.
Marina, see you later.
See you later.
Thank you.
Bye, bye. I'm going to the hospital.