Slick isn't always best
I'll be spending a night in Porto next month, and I've just been looking for a hotel online. While I was looking, it occurred to me that - in certain circumstances at least - a slick and polished presentation isn't always the best.
Take one hotel, for instance - the Residencial Pão de Açúcar.
And soon that the OPorto Wine became it known has two centuries behind, have been many the illustrious travellers who we have received.
On the one hand, a professional communicator like me should be offended at such a massacring of the English language. On the other hand, it just makes the place seem so much more charming, homely and quaint, which is exactly the kind of thing I look for when travelling to a foreign city.
So, I've written to ask for their prices. But I had to do so by email, since it was impossible to book directly online...