Lisbon’s Secret Coping Mechanism: Alcohol

Lisbon is known as a melancholy city, and this is especially true in winter. It rains all the time, apartments are cold and damp, the tram never works, and that wind! But Lisboans have figured out the best way to combat depression: by getting good and drunk. (What’s that you say? Alcohol actually just depresses you more? And the best cure for depression is physical exercise? Interesting. Now shut up and pour me another shot.)

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