A Town Harry Potter Would Love
Somewhere, in the hills of central Portugal, there is a town where students walk to class in full length black capes, the fabric brushing the cobblestoned streets
A town with a confection of architecture
Where a chapel has been converted into a coffee shop
And a confessional into a bathroom
From a distance, the university town of Coimbra looks like it has been pulled from the pages of a fairytale
A town where students sing in the streets
Past an old woman selling boiled fava beans