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How we found our apartment in Lisbon, PortugalJust two days into our vacation, we started making plans to move. Photo: João Esteves for CNBC Make ItWe must have looked at more than 100 apartments online. Photo: João Esteves for CNBC Make ItMy realtor and I sat at a cafe and negotiated back and forth with the owner via text message. We took out a new loan on our Washington, D.C. home that gave us $600,000, and paid for the rest of the Lisbon apartment in cash. Photo: João Esteves for CNBC Make ItAt the other end of the apartment is our bedroom.
Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. Lisbon has long been marked by a certain wistfulness. But for those who come with that vision, the city today will surprise with its diversity and color. What should I read before I pack my bags? The literary critic George Steiner wrote that the book “gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce’s Dublin or Kafka’s Prague.”
Persons: Victor Palla, Costa Martins, Fernando Pessoa, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Bernardo Soares, Pessoa, George Steiner, Organizations: Cidade Locations: Lisbon, Europe, “ Lisboa, e Alegre, Costa, Sintra, Pessoa’s, Dublin, Kafka’s Prague
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