The tale of the fado
In the midst of trying to decide if we could go on this Portugal trip I told T I’d rather go listen to fados rather than live them. Fado is a form of song from Portugal (or actually Africa as it seems all music must descend from), it literally means fate but the word fado derives from the Portuguese saudade, which has no English translation but most closely resembles pine (pena in Portuguese) – the fado are songs about longing, about being sorry for someone, about pining for what was.