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Here are more beautiful Portuguese tiles, photos taken at the palace in Sintra. It's a very lovely town in the mountains, where we had tea in the kind of shop I wish we had more of here; indeed, the kind of shop I would like to run. There would be the enormous pleasure of telling my current employer where to go, followed by the delights of setting up shop, choosing teas, deciding what to cook (I'd be pretty tough -- no real choice on the menu, I'm afraid -- you'd have to have what I deem good for you) and filling the place with music and various pleasing objects. And of course the hostess would be doglet, in an apron at the cash desk.