Status Updates From They Went To Portugal

"Anyhow it was a characteristic Renaissance gesture, to sack and burn the city and palace but to save fine books from the flames"

"Iberian civil war follows, in recent centuries, a pattern. It is a war between constitutionalism and absolutism, liberty and tyranny, liberalism, often with a little Freemasonry thrown in, and clericalism, in brief, between Left and Right."

I don't know why this is so enjoyable to read, but it is. Little vignettes about British people who visited or went and lived in Portugal. Small pieces of history in bite-sized chunks.