.you must be mad, or else you wouldn't have come here

I shall listen to it as soon as I can - which lately means 'as soon as I wrap up the rewatch-athon'! :D But from what she told me about it, it seems quite funny!
Oh, it is. Each season is set in a different era (the 15th century for season 1, the Elizabethan times for season 2, the late 18th/early 19th century for season 3, and World War I for season 4), all of them starring a character called Edmund Blackadder (each of them a descendant of the Edmund from the previous season, though it's never stated onscreen) and played by Rowan Atkinson. S1!Edmund is a Mr. Bean-like idiot, but S2!Edmund (the first one I discovered) is, believe it or not, incredibly sexy. The highlight of the season for me, though, is Miranda Richardson's Elizabeth I (*points to icon*).
There's quite a few links to Doctor Who when it comes to the cast, I should say. One of Edmund's sidekicks in the first two seasons, Lord Percy Percy, is played by Tim McInnerny, who was the lead baddie in Planet of the Ood (McInnerny would also appear in the other two seasons playing different, less idiotic characters). In season 1 Brian Blessed (AKA King Yrcanos from Trial of a Time Lord) played Edmund's father; in season 2, Tom Baker appears in an episode as a seaman (and I did not recognize him until someone pointed out that it was Four underneath all that beard!), and in the special A Blackadder Christmas Carol, set in Victorian England, Nicola Bryant appears as Ebenezer Blackadder's goddaughter. Also, there's another special, Blackadder Back and Forth, where the Edmund Blackadder from 1999 creates a TARDIS-like time machine and travels through time to collect some items in order to prove to his friends that the machine works.

HEE! I STILL SAY IT'S ALSO IN YOUR EYES. :D It IS!
Must be the shape, then. :)

Mmm. Yes, that too. :D (I must go on holiday to the UK one day . . . )
I hope you will. :)

Interesting! Now it COULD be possible I could MAYBE, if I learnt a bit about translating it, read a few words, but my skills with language are just so bad that I doubt I could ever speak it beyond a very few words.
Well, a lot of people can understand English over here, so as long as you can gesture to help explain what you want you'll have no problem communicating with a native Portuguese. :P

Some hills are so steep that they've got stairs built into them, some with railings, BECAUSE they're so steep.
Oh yes, that's exactly how you get to the Pena Palace on foot.
Luckily the other palaces are easier to get to. The National Palace (which is not as impressive when seen from the outside, but which is just stunning inside) is right in the center of the town, while Monserrate is located in the flatter region just outside Sintra.