Os Lusiadas

 Here's a picture I snapped on last summer's Portugal trip, at the little café outside our hotel in the Baixa-Chiado. After breakfast every morning Janet would had back to the room to write and I would head out to the café to write, and then we would meet up for a light lunch before heading out for adventures. Here is the requisite galao and Ali McGuirk Til It's Gone hat, along with my copy of Luis Camoes's Os Lusiadas, which he intended to become Portugal's version of a national epic (which it became).

And, yes, Os Lusiadas quickly made its way into my Epics book.

As I always tell my students, if you don't write on your books you don't love your books (more on that subject in an upcoming post).