On his way to World Youth Day, Tom Colsy enjoys the prodigious hospitality of a Herald reader in Lisbon. 

I was walking down the boulevards of Cordoba, Andalusia, on the way to visit its most prominent building, the Christianised former mosque, when an email arrived. One of the Catholic Herald’s regular readers had asked if we were sending anyone to World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon – and insisted on offering us hospitality if we were. He was keen to give us “an insight into Portuguese Catholic life” and emphasised that he was also hosting “a Brazilian retired bishop and a French priest from the Communauté Saint Martin”.