Emanuel Melo

I am looking forward to being on Twitter as I continue to write about the Luso-Canadian experience within the Portuguese diaspora. Please visit me at thetorzorean.com.

@Brain_Chain Now that’s a photo of you I’d want to see! 🤩😂

@torzorean No - but I did so my best soul searching wistful face, Emanuel 😂

It’s interesting what you notice about buildings when you are a tourist in your own town. A short thread on the architecture details of @myscotiaplaza . First there’s the Greek key details in this ceiling that are constantly repeated.

@Brain_Chain Well, if you can’t be a ‘high net worth’ client, then having a sister is France will have to do! I hope you asked him with a French accent! 😂

@torzorean Yes it’s in the old banking hall on the Bay side of Scotia Plaza close to King Street. I think ‘high net worth’ clients are the only people usually allowed to go in but I had a sob story about my sister in France that worked 😆

@Brain_Chain I don’t think I’ve ever seen this beautiful clock, Kate. Thanks to your persuasive charming of the security guard, we call all see it now! 😁 👍

Not a Greek key motif and I had to cajole the security guard to get a photo of the clock in the old banking hall. /END

@greenskeptic @Beverley_A_Dog You both deserved to be rescued!

@palmeidamaia @culturaeditora 👍

@torzorean @culturaeditora Obrigado! Já estamos quase a anunciar as datas das apresentações.

É um enorme gosto anunciar que o meu sexto romance «A Escrava Açoriana», sobre a escravatura branca nos finais do século XIX, está pronto e chegará às livrarias no dia 30 de junho. @culturaeditora #livros #literatura

@GaoCho How lucky of you to return to Portugal! Enjoy your time there and do say olá to Lisbon from me!

Amália in Toronto. I can still hear her singing Fado from the time I saw her perform at Roy Thomson Hall in 1989! youtube.com/watch?v=1Tzw-m…

@Antonio71323805 Bravo! A challenge at any age! I guess it makes it easier when walking through beautiful scenery! Well done, Antonio. Parabéns!

17 Km of hard walking trail through mountains of high altitude to end crossing a narrow tunnel w/ water up to knees. At 66 years old was a big challenge!

@carolinestreet In a world where everything is possible, I would love to take you there, Caroline, and show you around Little Portugal! 😊

@torzorean There is a lot a interesting goods here! My kinda place!

Whenever I feel saudade for Portugal I visit Saudade in Toronto!

@palmeidamaia Tive a grande honra de conhecer o Norberto Ávila no 26 colóquio da Lusofonia que decorreu em S. Miguel em 2016 e de colaborar com Katharine Baker na tradução dos seus “11 poemas açoriano” em Percurso de Poeta. Como dizes, era mesmo um gentleman das Letras que devemos celebrar.

Conhecemo-nos em 2019, na Graciosa, aquando dos Colóquios da Lusofonia. Foi naquela ocasião que lhe percebi a amabilidade: um verdadeiro gentleman das Letras. Deixa vasta obra e ainda maior saudade, mas não deveria ter morrido na solidão. Ainda vamos a tempo de o enaltecer.

@emily__demelo 😊❤️🙏

@torzorean I’ll bring you back a piece of home❤️

@Antonio71323805 Antonio, se gostar, leia este texto: thetorzorean.com/2019/02/07/tud…

@torzorean Nos anos 80`s Toronto quando visitei pela primeira vez era um Portugal pequenino! Agora já não sei. A ultima vez que lá passei foi à já 32 anos!

@Antonio71323805 Nos anos 80 havia uma grande comunidade portuguesa concentrada na área de Toronto que chamamos Little Portugal. Mas agora está mais pequena devido a muitos portugueses que se mudaram para outras localidades fora da cidade nos últimos anos. Mas ainda vale a pena visitar!

@nvcouto611 If you are ever in Toronto, Nancy, you should make a point of dropping by Saudade when visiting Little Portugal. You might even see me there! 😁

@torzorean Looks like a nice store. I like the nontraditional colors of the roosters.

@greenskeptic @whalingmuseum I need to get myself an Instagram account! 👍😁

@martin_roskruge I like to go back every couple of years. I use my blog to express both my memories of the Azores and my life in Toronto:  thetorzorean.com Cornwall is a beautiful place, too. I was there in 2019 on the way to Wales and loved it. You’re lucky to live there!

@torzorean How often do you get the chance to go back? I imagine that island life is totally different to your everyday life in Toronto. I live in the far southwest of England. The county of Cornwall has a coastline on 3 sides & a river dividing us from the rest of the country on the other.

Emanuel Melo - Visiting The #Azores Now. | @torzorean #history #identity #travel #writing buff.ly/3yzc7Mz

@martin_roskruge Thank you, Martin, for your kind words and for taking the time to let me know that you enjoyed my article. I am looking forward to my next visit to the Azores (just don’t know when). It’s always a kind of homecoming even though Toronto has been my home for most of my life.

@torzorean I really enjoyed reading your well written travel article about the Azores. They are a beautiful archipelago of islands. Your life story is fascinating. To be able to return to your home every so often must be the highlight of your year.

@Brain_Chain These are beautiful! Still waiting for mine to fully bloom, Kate. Any day now! 👍😁

And for those who want to know what East End Toronto lilacs look like- here they are!