Braga City full of Life

(This is an old post reposted)

Now its more than three weeks I am in Braga in Portugal. Braga is not a big city to use a map or satellite navigator as in London but more friendlier city. My encounter began with city began with few of the people who spoke no English, this is only to say that English is not only the language we can communicate with. They spoke no English and I spoke no Portuguese but we understood most of the conversation except for few words we had guess. First few days I used to ask the people for directions, not only to know the directions but I wanted to converse and know the people and their culture and their way of life. I think I succeeded in doing that for a large extent. Braga is not a diverse city but more localised city with more of Portuguese culture, music, food, dressing etc. When I was conversing with People, I realized that many of the words are similar and same as in my mother tongue, like culear, meza, butao etc. It made me more feel at home apart from the facet hat we were colonised or converted by the Portuguese several years ago. I do think that Goa in India has the similar kind of culture as it is here. Now I know why Goans like to talk about Portuguese, they are lot of things in common.This is an old post, reposted.