Limpet ("Lapa" in Portuguese)Two weeks ago, I had to look up the Portuguese word "lapa" - never heard of it!! It means "limpet" in English, and I'd never heard of that either. As we were planning ahead to an Azores trip for 2012, I kept reading about "rice with limpets". I had to look it up. It is, well better than explain, let me point you to the definition:
http://www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/limpets.html
NOW - I feel some very, very strange attraction that the Azores must've been my homeland in another lifetime. Suddenly, I feel close to things like "lapas" and "polvo" and Azorean words. I do not know if a PLACE can consume a person, but I do feel totally consumed by the Azores, although I've never been there. I look at scenes and instead of just appreciating them, I "remember" them. I do not know why a Portuguese-speaking chain of 9 islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean calls out so much to me. It haunts me day and night. When I dream now, I have vivid, colourful dreams of different places in the Azores. In a short span of time I have become familiar with all 9 islands: Corvo (the smallest), Flores, Faial, Sao Jorge, Graciosa, Sao Miguel, Terceira, Santa Maria and Pico.
Help!!! I've turned into an Azorean "limpet" (lapa) and am not complaining in the least!!
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