São Julião Beach
On Good Friday, northwest of Lisbon, family and friends get up early and head to the Atlantic coast. The goal is to fill buckets and bags for lunch, avoiding meat in observance of the Lenten fast. While the sun is still barely visible, armed with knives and spatulas, they frantically enter the shallows. Among rocks, waves, and breaking waves, they pluck delicious limpets and tasty mussels from the rocks. Following the tradition of their grandparents, still soaked in seawater, th