Savour the best gourmet foods Portugal has to offer on a food and wine tour of Lisbon. You'll get to meet plenty of locals as you make stops at small businesses that produce and sell delicious cheeses, pastries and Port. Whet your appetite with petiscos — Portugal’s version of tapas; learn about Lisbon’s cafe culture, try the famous Portuguese codfish cake with a glass of refreshing vinho verde (green wine). A local guide will make sure you don't miss any essential delicacies and get just enough fun and interesting facts to appreciate the Portuguese cuisine to the max.

For a few days during the year the locals of Saint Lucia don their fanciest and most summery carnivalesque costumes before taking to the streets. Hailed as one of the best carnival celebrations in the Americas, this yearly event manages to portray the Caribbean culture of this small island nation perfectly. The festival arrives at its climax with a two-day long parade of live music, feathers, beads and scantily clad carnival-goers moving rhythmically under the radiant Saint Lucian sun.

National Tile Museum is devoted to the quintessentially Portuguese tiles seen so frequently on buildings across the country. The collection is housed in a monastery, the varying architectural styles and decorations of which give a quick walkthrough the country's major movements. One of the highlights is an enormous tiled fresco which shows Lisbon as it was just before the big earthquake in 1755.

Carolina Rediviva was erected between 1817 and 1841 and is home to Sweden's oldest university library, founded in 1620. Originally three stories high with two mezzanines, the building now spans 12 stories and has about 5 million books and 3,500 shelf meters of handwritten documents. When you walk through the entrance of the library, you'll come to the exhibition room, where you can view the famous Silver Bible from the 6th century, musical notations made by Mozart himself, medieval manuscripts, and Olaus Magnus' Carta Marina, printed in 1539.