Juliana Piskorz

Nov 16, 2024 | thetimes.com | Juliana Piskorz

When ebikes first came to the UK capital in 2018 — thanks to the San Franciscan shared electric-bike scheme known as Lime — no one thought they would catch on. At the time we still thought the “Boris bike”, with its nonmotorised wheels and cumbersome frame requiring the quads of an Olympic powerlifter to manoeuvre it up a hill, was the height of ingenuity. But at some point, faced with the prospect of a night bus home, we succumbed to the allure of the ebike. And it was glorious, wasn’t it?

Jun 22, 2024 | thetimes.com | Juliana Piskorz

Our national decline seems to have become so ubiquitous that even Weetabix — “Britain’s favourite breakfast” — is now capitalising on it with a new advert: “One of the reasons Britain hasn’t been so great of late is because … we haven’t been eating enough Weetabix.” Perhaps the nation’s wholegrain cereal deficiency explains why Google searches for “EU passport” spiked in April to their highest levels since 2021. Although it seems more likely that our collective psyche is fantasising about escape.

Mar 10, 2024 | independent.ie | Juliana Piskorz

Of course, in the last decade Lisbon has become something of a mecca for hipsters and artists looking for a warmer and (sadly no longer) cheaper way of life and the pretty tiled-capital Porto has long been frequented by Port enthusiasts and then of course there’s the Algarve, that much favoured summer holiday location for Irish sunseekers. But the Douro Valley has slipped under the radar, for now at least.

Mar 2, 2024 | msn.com | Juliana Piskorz

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Mar 2, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Juliana Piskorz

In the canon of travel literature Portugal has often been overlooked as a gastronomic and cultural behemoth in comparison to its neighbour Spain, unjustly so in my opinion.