How I Fell for Lisbon 

by FRANK BRUNI, an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times,who was the restaurant critic of The Times from June 2004 to August 2009.

Joao Pedro Marnoto for The New York Times

WE meet the places we wind up loving much the way we meet the people we fall for: on purpose and accidentally; at precisely the right moment and exactly the wrong time; in the highest of spirits and the lowest of moods.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/travel/how-i-fell-for-lisbon.html?ref=travel