On sunny afternoons the women of Arraiolos sit in companionable clusters in the cobblestoned streets, their needles flashing as they fashion the needlepoint carpets that have made this little Portuguese town synonymous with both a craft and a stitch.
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Oftentimes, it takes us buckets of tears, sweat and (literally) blood before we achieve what we want in life. But so long as it means waking up the next day to a morning as majestic and picturesque as this, I would not mind fighting till I shed the last b