Porto, in which Teo goes home

Teo was born in Miragaia, the old riverside quarter of Porto, in a house his grandmother kept for sixty years and which is now, inevitably, a guesthouse with a word like Boutique on a brass plaque. He left when he was nine, for Leeds, where it also rained but nobody was as nice about it.

This was the first time he'd been back with Pip. He had prepared a list of things to show her. Pip had prepared nothing and was therefore much more relaxed.

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The francesinha

A francesinha is a sandwich in the way that a cathedral is a shed. It is bread, three kinds of meat, more bread, a layer of melted cheese, a fried egg, and a beer and tomato sauce poured over all of it, served with chips, at lunchtime, to people who then go back to work. Teo ate one on the first day and lay on the bed for an hour saying worth it at intervals.

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Teo kept saying everything was smaller than he remembered. Pip kept saying everything was bigger. They were standing next to each other.

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