Vila Nova de Gaia

Na música de Daniel Fernandes, há espaço para tudo isso, para a festa, para o duplo sentido e também para a saudade.

Natural de Pedrouços, em Vila Nova de Gaia, tem levado as suas canções aos palcos portugueses, às televisões nacionais e às comunidades portuguesas espalhadas pelo mundo.

Por detrás da alegria com que se apresenta ao público, há um percurso feito de perdas, de recomeços e de uma vontade de continuar que encontrou na música.

Hoje, o ponto de partida é o seu novo single, a "IA Vai Ajudar", mas a conversa vai levar-nos mais longe, às primeiras cantigas, às pessoas que marcaram a sua vida e às histórias que deram origem às suas canções.

So we're having a go at showing you how it can be done with some top tips and more importantly, the great characters that we meet along the way.

After a quick trip to Portuguese favourites Porto and Gaia with our son Sam.

We travel to stylish Milan where Anne-Marie's head is turned at the poolside.

And through the Dolomites to Trento and on to Innsbruck, Austria.

Six months.

In fact, we're not in Porto, in Portugal.

We're in Gaia, which is the other city across the river Dura.

And it's a really interesting place because you fly into Porto, you think you're going to Porto, and then Gaia is a totally different city.

The metro single ticket is only 1.4 euros.

And the famous port lodges in Vila Nova de Gaia are just a short walk across the bridge from the city center.

The caveat with Porto, however, is the exact mirror image of Bordeaux's weakness.

Those lodges in Gaia are just warehouses.

But help me understand this part.

Why is one specific station in, uh, Vila Nova de Gaia such a make or break issue for a national high-speed rail network?

Well, because high-speed rail is never just about moving trains quickly between two endpoints, right?

Okay.

It was great.

But I think that if we had to do it again, we would probably stay in Gaia, which is like

across the river, across the

river from Porto.

So once we got settled, we had an Uber pick us up and take all five of us in one vehicle, which was also nice.

When we can limit splitting up, I like to.

And they took us into Gaia because we had made a dinner reservation at Porto Cruz.

But we got there earlier than our reservation.

Who doesn't remember the first time on Top of the Pots for Chic with that record and the ladies with the orchestration? Oh, I was doing a bit of violin then.

Anyway, when you say around the world, Mark, what do you mean around the world? I mean, Kettering, Athens, Glasgow, Prague, Falkenstein, Swansea, Maidstone, Zurich, Wessel, Dresden, Camden, City of London, Villanova de Gaia in Portugal, Kidlington, Birmingham, Poole, Exeter, Prescott, Coventry, And last but no means least, good morning South Croydon.

So stop going around in circles Let love come into your heart It's time it's gone Sitting around Don't know how long this thing is gonna

last

That's right.

When we knew, okay, Portugal is it, well, we could still have Braga and Coimbra and Porto and Villanova de Gaia.

And if we want to throw Aracera into the mix, cool, because all we were going for was that Portuguese visa.

So we knew we could pick the neighborhood and, or even pick the city a little bit closer to that move time and not feel like we had to have everything figured out before we started that visa process.