{"id":2744,"date":"2015-11-13T22:16:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T21:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2744"},"modified":"2018-11-17T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T12:20:50","slug":"sintra-foraging-with-fernanda-botelho","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2744","title":{"rendered":"Sintra Foraging with Fernanda Botelho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to go to a work meeting in Lisbon on 11th November 2015 and wasn&#8217;t going to travel back to the evening of the 12th. I asked on Facebook for suggestions of places to visit and people sent me several suggestions. Then, one of these amazing &#8220;resonances&#8221; happened&#8230;.<br \/>\nJorge Carona from Portugal sent me a message on my web site just as I was waiting for my flight to Lisbon. He wrote: &#8220;I bought your book and I\u2019m fascinated. I follow all you write on your blog.&#8221;\u00a0 He hadn&#8217;t seen my Facebook request! I replied thanking him and telling him I was actually on my way to Lisbon as I wrote. It ended with Jorge offering to show me around Lisbon as this was where he lived! When we met at 8:30 that Thursday, I had no idea where we would go and who we would meet&#8230;. We drove to Sintra, the famous UN World Heritage site just outside of Lisbon (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sintra\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sintra <\/a>). \u00a0I had visited briefly at dusk many years ago.<br \/>\nUnknown to me, Jorge had arranged for me to meet probably the best known Portuguese herbalist, wild forager, author, TV and radio personality Fernanda Botelho! \u00a0A short biography here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herbfestuk.co.uk\/?speakers=view&amp;id=72\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.herbfestuk.co.uk\/?speakers=view&amp;id=72<\/a><br \/>\nWell, it was fantastic to meet someone who was as enthusiastic as I am on edible and useful plants! \u00a0Here is an album of pictures from my visit to Sintra with Jorge and Fernanda! What a day! Just a shame it was so short!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/pictures\/index.php?\/category\/83\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/pictures\/index.php?\/category\/83<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to go to a work meeting in Lisbon on 11th November 2015 and wasn&#8217;t going to travel back to the evening of the 12th. I asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2744","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20227,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2744\/revisions\/20227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}