tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25879290093753148122024-03-05T01:02:43.470-08:00Querida LisboaMy dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-45297711103384665802009-12-02T13:05:00.001-08:002009-12-02T13:50:37.772-08:00Cascais Saturday<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbImoQZMk_b0Swvw8mshzyZHlhK-qEgzZUR5duFdPmQ6Awh4E9t0Oyr3Tth4axu4Gcu-ys1n1lwKAKw9HeKOXzaEFRq_NQqBVM996jKzlpObDM9rjmuU-HhrV-GrUjnt6Um-OqlI7P1DM/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbImoQZMk_b0Swvw8mshzyZHlhK-qEgzZUR5duFdPmQ6Awh4E9t0Oyr3Tth4axu4Gcu-ys1n1lwKAKw9HeKOXzaEFRq_NQqBVM996jKzlpObDM9rjmuU-HhrV-GrUjnt6Um-OqlI7P1DM/s400/5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410752984172621778" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2azFJ-vhcd-Qmjp7UfFuQ_sIXoIuW7k1hqGL3PMlqH3bgHVcNh630Zuh2eutKaaSUPXve1BlJVdFT-Ci9drbxBir1DkrF0IWtu5WroQ_dbiCAPUGJ2Ly2ym-5s5LLOGkVILZxxCfO-w/s1600-h/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2azFJ-vhcd-Qmjp7UfFuQ_sIXoIuW7k1hqGL3PMlqH3bgHVcNh630Zuh2eutKaaSUPXve1BlJVdFT-Ci9drbxBir1DkrF0IWtu5WroQ_dbiCAPUGJ2Ly2ym-5s5LLOGkVILZxxCfO-w/s400/7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410752962682345874" /></a><br />I went to Cascais because I could not allow myself to leave without smelling again the bark of my dear aucalyptus trees. For a second I wanted to give up, it was crazy to go to a city just to smell some leaves and barks. Who on Earth does that? ... I went to my dear Cascais park, full of flowers and peacocks and filled my lungs with the lovely smell. I think I must have looked like a lost, crazy person walking around with her nose in the air, but to be honest, I did not care. On my way back I took the train, made friends with the policemen and finally missed one train. Of course, like an authentic tourist, I stopped in Belém to get my pasteis de Belém with me to Romania. For a few minutes I had a huge panick attack when I could not Picture myself without being able to take my car and drive it on marginal again. I managed to get away from those feelings but they were quite powerful. I got my pasteis, I jumped into the bus and went back home. I started to pack and unpack, and pack and unpack again trying to make the best choices so that I would not take more than 20kg with me. And then....I went to Bairro Alto for a short night out, a night with caipirinha and wine. I got back home, woke up early to get the plane, said goodbye with tears all over my face to my dear Tejo and my flowers and went away....got into the airport and as every single thing stopped working before I left (it all started on my birthday when I had a car accident, then my whole house kept falling apart piece by piece, the bucket broke, the heater stopped working 2 days before I left, the tv receiver refused to start working again one week before I left, the bathroom bulb exploaded one night before, everything was falling apart and I was only assisting at this show of events ....silently, smiling, wondering-what next? I even thought about people who did not want me there anymore....), the car battery collapsed and the driver had to call somebody else to move the car back home. At the airport I managed to negotiate nicely and efficiently so that I did not have to pay extra luggage for the 27kg luggage (when the maximum was 20kg) and I wished the guy at the counter the very best in life. Madrid was a nightmare. I kept receiving goodbye sms that only made me realize more and more what I have lost, I could not stop crying and I was alone in this turmoil of feelings. And then I got angry on the Romanian flight attendants, I wanted to make them understand what genuine kindness means, how genuine smiles come from the heart but I gave up on that battle. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-i4ifhYORuEme17edig7MrqANhWzkWVWdtttqNDdXABwJi4_1EC-2lkqpLNpWHHhZ8KjcpIISYSavoA8MG1A5oS2OQwnDj9cV7KbJJCV-vg3JqAUKD57njtgB1ZjmS8-DSNAAY2YZ5s4/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-i4ifhYORuEme17edig7MrqANhWzkWVWdtttqNDdXABwJi4_1EC-2lkqpLNpWHHhZ8KjcpIISYSavoA8MG1A5oS2OQwnDj9cV7KbJJCV-vg3JqAUKD57njtgB1ZjmS8-DSNAAY2YZ5s4/s400/3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410754769281407842" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiombpAKs2TBj_A9FblgMvQ_Q4x0asEz-4eFaVRLRMGbPWr434lN71NEWT8JtPZ2N5ZADOmvXPMTjYWiHxwBVyplxrhElLWJXDpoDX4bviEoZSgF3vxStB_QU33G8Rosq19uPk7_BbsPms/s1600-h/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiombpAKs2TBj_A9FblgMvQ_Q4x0asEz-4eFaVRLRMGbPWr434lN71NEWT8JtPZ2N5ZADOmvXPMTjYWiHxwBVyplxrhElLWJXDpoDX4bviEoZSgF3vxStB_QU33G8Rosq19uPk7_BbsPms/s400/14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410749695008622898" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3jVE-rV3yUI3yaRgwzlkxPX_s3lJKYIEgVhEyzPql8uCDLqkJ-U5mhZjTP5yKXlmD8Ezp7MNOaUHWEmjfvo-GEeV7vtnMGM7U9x0jkscEVfZTVixYsUEQFQbvhpj6RXrIUXU26oRSDns/s1600-h/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3jVE-rV3yUI3yaRgwzlkxPX_s3lJKYIEgVhEyzPql8uCDLqkJ-U5mhZjTP5yKXlmD8Ezp7MNOaUHWEmjfvo-GEeV7vtnMGM7U9x0jkscEVfZTVixYsUEQFQbvhpj6RXrIUXU26oRSDns/s400/21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410749672990302482" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpQypAhsaHEa7Rx6GMfEiFCdHQDUC-P6-Exm546OYPlfddhn21-8AjmXoZvn7MKOKTfuEAipdJ49V8eKoiWaOr_eH4Lo_T7RMqKjZC098Fs5YBCoji09rQ39C7afBhvfIhSvWZ96jGtWA/s1600-h/f.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpQypAhsaHEa7Rx6GMfEiFCdHQDUC-P6-Exm546OYPlfddhn21-8AjmXoZvn7MKOKTfuEAipdJ49V8eKoiWaOr_eH4Lo_T7RMqKjZC098Fs5YBCoji09rQ39C7afBhvfIhSvWZ96jGtWA/s400/f.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410749665501242770" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFULzLep6vUP3YlCmFML4C8-GDoK3pNg0rVaHAHk8pI38nm-7Wp2U4SE_cVVjOmlxuldBQ7XSFvErbv8X6zueJmunSHka8fykLF-cMvyeeVyzQ_X3jLoqzJ87ujy3EPZO00WbJIEPczs/s1600-h/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFULzLep6vUP3YlCmFML4C8-GDoK3pNg0rVaHAHk8pI38nm-7Wp2U4SE_cVVjOmlxuldBQ7XSFvErbv8X6zueJmunSHka8fykLF-cMvyeeVyzQ_X3jLoqzJ87ujy3EPZO00WbJIEPczs/s400/11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410751096515024930" /></a><br /><br />Crossroads. Shinny crossroads that I met. Some look not as glamourous but I know deep in my heart (to be honest very deep, where I can hardly see) that they hide opportunities. I have to say my “thank you” for all the bliss that I lived, for being one of the few who were chosen to be allowed to dream with open eyes, to be one of the few able to have a way too special connection with the Portuguese air and sky and Sun that to feel that I was in tune with everything and everybody. In the meantime I have turned into a frightened hedgehog who is waiting silently for other opportunities, who sometimes wishes it could erase memory like in “Eternal Sunshine of A Spoteless Mind” and move on, but who knows that erasing all these will make erase all the beautiful, unique moments. A colleague of mine asked me before I left “why are you so sad? Have you left behind a Great love?”, another one asked me “hey, if you left a guy behind I will make him keep you here” – I have no idea but I know that as childish and naive and now repetitive it may seem, the answer is “yes”, I have left behind a great love of mine ... and maybe something else as well. I had rituals and things that I wanted to take with me hoping that keeping them will make me go back in time – there is no replacement though for the real thing so I am quietely and wisely waiting again for the 'real thing'. I brought with me Portuguese cheese, quijadas de leite, quijadas de requijão and ....imagine....a box of Carcavelos sand, in which I imagined I would immerse my toes and go back again straight to the beach. I love you Portugal. I am learning a lesson now, a not very pleasant one, the lesson of being humble. I think this is because for a while I thought that I belonged there, maybe I dared for too much when it was not the case....<br /><br />Anyhow....I will be back and in the meantime I will get so happy that you would believe I have forgotten Portugal, but that will only be a trick – the trick of being happy before something very special. I have learned that success and failure are equally important, that love and loss are equally powerful, that beauty and lack of it are equally fascinating and I have learned that life takes you where you should be every single moment. This is where I have to be now, grateful and happy for everything. I am sending all my love for those special people in the Algarve and further South :-) for all those dear ones from O Porto and Alentejo, for all those hidden ones in Lisbon, for all those who have certainties and huge doubts, for all those who are not capable of taking the “right” decisions, for all those who listen to their hearts and not their minds, for all those who made me learn something during all this time, for all those who made me think about Sting’s words “I must love what I destroy and destroy the things I love”, for all those who made me believe and live the present moment and less the future, thank you all for letting me meet you. May your lives all be as beautiful as I want mine to be. Bless you. I will wait for you all, one by one to climb with me the beautiful Romanian mountains and then to sail the sea in the Azores and ride the motorcycles on Marginal. See ya! :-)) kiss kiss<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Xj7gwtElZSM5gYAoHgOJRMaok71FX_gKMKimqLGJ0Xfr53DzPYZ2uPL7ZGq3w0KqKqST1yy8e-VzMZuqQpWGXwnkt97MryUeRXZns-xvygbSYjj3qihzWchZs-hqN4oKp_EH5zfXynQ/s1600-h/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Xj7gwtElZSM5gYAoHgOJRMaok71FX_gKMKimqLGJ0Xfr53DzPYZ2uPL7ZGq3w0KqKqST1yy8e-VzMZuqQpWGXwnkt97MryUeRXZns-xvygbSYjj3qihzWchZs-hqN4oKp_EH5zfXynQ/s400/9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410751114116515666" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6PM11D5_FCj83X_F2k7tdrps4bIFJnOuXUXll6oBHz9ddYqq5hXqcKv4jjmEhfSTmOK2IIPn8k_zCmgwGtzxjUCX3B7_NajQNE1w1LzBa937Qca7QA-TskzMPd4rm5_MT0vFa63DsdWc/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6PM11D5_FCj83X_F2k7tdrps4bIFJnOuXUXll6oBHz9ddYqq5hXqcKv4jjmEhfSTmOK2IIPn8k_zCmgwGtzxjUCX3B7_NajQNE1w1LzBa937Qca7QA-TskzMPd4rm5_MT0vFa63DsdWc/s400/2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410754781569067090" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-8355676148651065402009-11-30T14:09:00.000-08:002009-11-30T23:15:11.771-08:00Saturday Lisbon day<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9NJTumoCtenVhpXM5TuCGQhMaFKanuef9AGIlykuQPGPkiC7DEACx4wO6WkvTY-fRNB8y48qprPqaWkgTNTfvJKjoAs8qGs-IXzHUr_F6GwEqGMkE84qPB-b4QZYuCwtBTprx3lPQl9A/s1600/heart.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9NJTumoCtenVhpXM5TuCGQhMaFKanuef9AGIlykuQPGPkiC7DEACx4wO6WkvTY-fRNB8y48qprPqaWkgTNTfvJKjoAs8qGs-IXzHUr_F6GwEqGMkE84qPB-b4QZYuCwtBTprx3lPQl9A/s400/heart.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410026147613671042" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk3gblFTAMrFoS5x0JBF6p3BH9HZuJyBRRn2CpKFo3kLwBz3X48aco5reqJhwysllAx_0iXSky04rleHi0Ee7m39SNUijDU7woRf4nqZWma_-dYJEl9mckGIFAScAmwQrSR0ZwjOCHmZ0/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk3gblFTAMrFoS5x0JBF6p3BH9HZuJyBRRn2CpKFo3kLwBz3X48aco5reqJhwysllAx_0iXSky04rleHi0Ee7m39SNUijDU7woRf4nqZWma_-dYJEl9mckGIFAScAmwQrSR0ZwjOCHmZ0/s400/5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410029456923415394" /></a><br />Saturday was the marathon day. I thought that if I did that, some kind of secret mechanism will be triggered and I will be able to magically push a button that would instantly take my mind and soul to Lisbon whenever I wished to. I don’t push any button now, but I somehow walk silently in the streets of Bucharest and all of a sudden I am in Lisbon, in Principe Real, taking tango lessons next to Santa Apolónia train station or smelling and tasting the beautiful Pasteis de Belém sprkinkled with cinnamon-my heart knows where she is :-) <br />....I woke up and went to Alfama, not before having a coffee with a friend of mine in Praça das Flores(one of my favorite Lisbon places) and saying goodbye to São Bento.....<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGSlL39l4Ki4uUbYgNtY11u00eeOzCLFJ93RVwHoDQ9BVsOKS-wAIM6Ds9BNGUo0V2xoa6Cv7tZabDsj1R6Hs_Q6s-BdSCRX3wH5er2XRnoPZuH7Yv5M7mAufcpkwFOotPrzCkeoNius/s1600/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGSlL39l4Ki4uUbYgNtY11u00eeOzCLFJ93RVwHoDQ9BVsOKS-wAIM6Ds9BNGUo0V2xoa6Cv7tZabDsj1R6Hs_Q6s-BdSCRX3wH5er2XRnoPZuH7Yv5M7mAufcpkwFOotPrzCkeoNius/s400/12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410026104579420178" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDkEQD4QYMGZ3cE5XoCaOgdI7vJTj34KE6IKNkao056yA9BgAOIWX_2ixp8qA7DBJ3zoD2GPO1Rc7Pq-xmiHs9nC4ZACjwg6h8spm1txeIO-3TeaCTOYzITLeBJn6sdqdL-WvUfih-Dw/s1600/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDkEQD4QYMGZ3cE5XoCaOgdI7vJTj34KE6IKNkao056yA9BgAOIWX_2ixp8qA7DBJ3zoD2GPO1Rc7Pq-xmiHs9nC4ZACjwg6h8spm1txeIO-3TeaCTOYzITLeBJn6sdqdL-WvUfih-Dw/s400/10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410026082974256354" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAxuPUN-zU_mFQ31Rq7UKYOFY6GdQd2MUlgISGKJE9YPnadu6wz0kL_Xtq8VJBq6Xn45RBSzO7W4PpyFWFaHUzF0X_RqAftQ-hwa-QGAaXNq7KuKwOXk_sdv8aFmuGDnuInfH1i9iWXA/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAxuPUN-zU_mFQ31Rq7UKYOFY6GdQd2MUlgISGKJE9YPnadu6wz0kL_Xtq8VJBq6Xn45RBSzO7W4PpyFWFaHUzF0X_RqAftQ-hwa-QGAaXNq7KuKwOXk_sdv8aFmuGDnuInfH1i9iWXA/s400/2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410024259736681538" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwqxkCyoSsFQ0Hs5ExrZ8zx6MrwZYXxYl18P6WHBnUtVWw4f-fcnrfzf21h5GERLJXolcBIxCj3swmsutIGrCDhhhUXEJJFcDjpEXqw9K2Jick9Q9IJEP6xDK9rKGbxx5lCnSM54_IMHA/s1600/0.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwqxkCyoSsFQ0Hs5ExrZ8zx6MrwZYXxYl18P6WHBnUtVWw4f-fcnrfzf21h5GERLJXolcBIxCj3swmsutIGrCDhhhUXEJJFcDjpEXqw9K2Jick9Q9IJEP6xDK9rKGbxx5lCnSM54_IMHA/s400/0.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410024245027613602" /></a><br /><br />Alfama as charming as it can get<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6leg9MYfAzGOX1cuMh-Rq_c_K0LO3g-MqK8hPGIoE-QmVsW7ef8BWnC41j57-x9EivE2hLAb9e6gdcqP1Urz627Ygvtvj-sMpxC-d-uAZyQNisIBboyMfHcSuBoGnBTemBUlN-5hwTWU/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6leg9MYfAzGOX1cuMh-Rq_c_K0LO3g-MqK8hPGIoE-QmVsW7ef8BWnC41j57-x9EivE2hLAb9e6gdcqP1Urz627Ygvtvj-sMpxC-d-uAZyQNisIBboyMfHcSuBoGnBTemBUlN-5hwTWU/s400/2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410029440414900402" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYh7WHJbHowzvr_G42byfdqqD5kAuQXoM3nXCYCaEI7d7_3KgA0L7cX91QC_NY2FJgjd4jFJ8uDTAxihAolLI_VyC7F2_2v9JP_5qd5Y72JLclXLo-pa3tInYXj6ZKw-ExGsqsMVbeyTg/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYh7WHJbHowzvr_G42byfdqqD5kAuQXoM3nXCYCaEI7d7_3KgA0L7cX91QC_NY2FJgjd4jFJ8uDTAxihAolLI_VyC7F2_2v9JP_5qd5Y72JLclXLo-pa3tInYXj6ZKw-ExGsqsMVbeyTg/s400/3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410029441298296290" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM65EBKQuJD6Q7vl_wIFa9YtVe4HKLy85hnlc14MlEpahytk70EuZyGuWqDG6oznYmkcYWSif2t-8HWS0rMmrIUFFQk-Pvry83RWcSK9MOc-IPese3v_40TDjs0jsR3KHW4JLnWgB3nN0/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM65EBKQuJD6Q7vl_wIFa9YtVe4HKLy85hnlc14MlEpahytk70EuZyGuWqDG6oznYmkcYWSif2t-8HWS0rMmrIUFFQk-Pvry83RWcSK9MOc-IPese3v_40TDjs0jsR3KHW4JLnWgB3nN0/s400/8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410030763657057346" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdo0-T0YjbEHD6Sn1Ks5Vx3N2gYEzUA86W9T_wtN2zekMxWwULFcxYAEx9-FQJ0Z_OrEP5bptlP3ubMHcVZlj1zEV_nbQCGerb3P0e2TpgPwh3OuJZoMIYrliicRsp60XiN4DkHJmIq7A/s1600/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdo0-T0YjbEHD6Sn1Ks5Vx3N2gYEzUA86W9T_wtN2zekMxWwULFcxYAEx9-FQJ0Z_OrEP5bptlP3ubMHcVZlj1zEV_nbQCGerb3P0e2TpgPwh3OuJZoMIYrliicRsp60XiN4DkHJmIq7A/s400/9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410030769872333090" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjPfvvV6p9UIqw2DYkB8m3jlLJ_fI7lu3EV9xwa6gfZ5F-k7nBVA08BniuN_8JPZpJ7ZDnwSBox1s3m1o4GythWe3HwNsy2h8eg9aaOFqnrDjoNpxQlkUCdhkJF_tG9es8cicmDK5KMG8/s1600/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjPfvvV6p9UIqw2DYkB8m3jlLJ_fI7lu3EV9xwa6gfZ5F-k7nBVA08BniuN_8JPZpJ7ZDnwSBox1s3m1o4GythWe3HwNsy2h8eg9aaOFqnrDjoNpxQlkUCdhkJF_tG9es8cicmDK5KMG8/s400/6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410029462410144866" /></a><br /><br />It was the end of October and I was still getting tanned, even burned from the crazy, Lisbon Sun, that I adore. I walked in Alfama like a tourist, taking pictures, I did all the things that a tourist would do, I even ate sardines-to be honest, I think the most delicious ones, of course I made friends with the waiter, who invited me to a free Fado concert.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJYpthf7GN6qUpqL4ma0CgqXvS814O7u5GAZtvD5ngz0VJMbyRJl5xAU62urpZMxbk20jg860EeTvqLu8MJaK214lDXZ74MYU_ksqpU4b0-tnzGeO9wSB2KIi6zv0SaVwie91dyrcJHdo/s1600/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJYpthf7GN6qUpqL4ma0CgqXvS814O7u5GAZtvD5ngz0VJMbyRJl5xAU62urpZMxbk20jg860EeTvqLu8MJaK214lDXZ74MYU_ksqpU4b0-tnzGeO9wSB2KIi6zv0SaVwie91dyrcJHdo/s400/10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410030773508329778" /></a><br /><br />I took a walk to Terreiro do Paço watching the seagulls, enjoying the Sun reflections in the water...and all of a sudden.....surprise.... I could hear men screming and see men swimming in the dirty water of the river.....I got closer and closer and there they were....four guys completely naked and completely drunk screaming and enjoying themselves. Of course I have pictures from all the possible angles but I will not post them here for reasons of decency – but for those who do not believe me, I have the proof :-) only I can get to walk in a city and see naked women in Rambla Santa Mónica in Barcelona or naked men in Lisbon one day before leaving....<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyNkRqaWNJmrOZJzOqAmLaihAi86AyVMFlkmPgAX6vEM66rfsaQLMPRWXKpnCjox0XP-WfCJbrCIGoIM5NaxVtDR-gKLS7Z6P_50_012nywUdYrigOAYayVIUo_-QDmK07a-c3o2dfJ5E/s1600/15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyNkRqaWNJmrOZJzOqAmLaihAi86AyVMFlkmPgAX6vEM66rfsaQLMPRWXKpnCjox0XP-WfCJbrCIGoIM5NaxVtDR-gKLS7Z6P_50_012nywUdYrigOAYayVIUo_-QDmK07a-c3o2dfJ5E/s400/15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410031917255732194" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhciPhqtzRNiYY0QTnU8ymrjqVcEu6XIYBJgzHmDMhVAAsG0etmY_Z8ZrvdHXBK-DrRkpKlOU_Qh9j9q4ZhDcKxJP55D_l1zySOnnfkEnIf2UEs1Ra83NvJ3Z2A4YwfSblLrlAMUDtyXCI/s1600/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhciPhqtzRNiYY0QTnU8ymrjqVcEu6XIYBJgzHmDMhVAAsG0etmY_Z8ZrvdHXBK-DrRkpKlOU_Qh9j9q4ZhDcKxJP55D_l1zySOnnfkEnIf2UEs1Ra83NvJ3Z2A4YwfSblLrlAMUDtyXCI/s400/12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410031902287482082" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9XxPmscFQ9x53dh3I-U1x-FMpLpWG0AiqMMj3fRG4UEel6FWQJOcYT7gzy7GymH1nGvLJt3iT4weDphNUfakG_HEuIl9ztHNgd-a7bs3j_TjYxC1bP0wDa9dMILB4FHzQsO8y1pQPHPM/s1600/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9XxPmscFQ9x53dh3I-U1x-FMpLpWG0AiqMMj3fRG4UEel6FWQJOcYT7gzy7GymH1nGvLJt3iT4weDphNUfakG_HEuIl9ztHNgd-a7bs3j_TjYxC1bP0wDa9dMILB4FHzQsO8y1pQPHPM/s400/11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410030779335761074" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11746lgVB0m3kQLRdCfqhBlIuVayMCOpzl3B3McldMs8P9ybSocdzIONSdYJA2E7FvSpMraxaNU4TtB1g_Io2TQ8hNRFsiAQWqKsvVCWsol9uGkLo-MPYNpRLFdBVFZDxqDhYLAa8zLE/s1600/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11746lgVB0m3kQLRdCfqhBlIuVayMCOpzl3B3McldMs8P9ybSocdzIONSdYJA2E7FvSpMraxaNU4TtB1g_Io2TQ8hNRFsiAQWqKsvVCWsol9uGkLo-MPYNpRLFdBVFZDxqDhYLAa8zLE/s400/17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410034031466422962" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivIyz28JkUbXz6H7tkzWekCroU0rX09AxvYeTpCA1m6byfxzJeEsH-zBoTYsQAE9g0WHOXkTqf7Ge0MTexOj4JrcBe1CiimE0ae4O0yw3B88Ccm49sTRYfTNLPTwQF2mWvBmuu7g2b-lw/s1600/18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivIyz28JkUbXz6H7tkzWekCroU0rX09AxvYeTpCA1m6byfxzJeEsH-zBoTYsQAE9g0WHOXkTqf7Ge0MTexOj4JrcBe1CiimE0ae4O0yw3B88Ccm49sTRYfTNLPTwQF2mWvBmuu7g2b-lw/s400/18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410160612859632066" /></a><br /><br />And then I took the train to Cascais for a single reason that I did not want to miss...u know why? <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6aKSZ9mcwMYn4asXdNd0qGJAZyTBWSIm7DeN8aiiXLw-fka_ghfrY-45RWNvhks7tnt0vU1KThK9stzzEKCBO8KNE1nOqtyrD1vfuCfBYn_eErvOPuMtuEeld5Svu9rQEL8tHiRq4Ts/s1600/25.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6aKSZ9mcwMYn4asXdNd0qGJAZyTBWSIm7DeN8aiiXLw-fka_ghfrY-45RWNvhks7tnt0vU1KThK9stzzEKCBO8KNE1nOqtyrD1vfuCfBYn_eErvOPuMtuEeld5Svu9rQEL8tHiRq4Ts/s400/25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410034024661225250" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3v3U_fYBazB1uDZroKCq05RfM3FWFf4G0jZK7RoPQdx7Err2NErQmkSKlO5CcVCEy6zrikJfBE8WXuL8ISpasbewt-lrE-W-bSRTWtdsLIYPcCc7YLW8vy6_fK4Kx_7EMQyS9Gj4ysY/s1600/24.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3v3U_fYBazB1uDZroKCq05RfM3FWFf4G0jZK7RoPQdx7Err2NErQmkSKlO5CcVCEy6zrikJfBE8WXuL8ISpasbewt-lrE-W-bSRTWtdsLIYPcCc7YLW8vy6_fK4Kx_7EMQyS9Gj4ysY/s400/24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410034017829078178" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-58424542062466214642009-11-24T11:29:00.000-08:002009-11-25T11:01:30.817-08:00Friday<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN1HQ_Ah43PwBy_FXcLr_mMJq8k6MGIZ-Bh_XJQVM9g1YgMMQpFAzj72wJ0ZKElB_U9Juh572o5w35rVXuoq9FV5PgqyrWHJdm4f1fttsO02q1kUfHvnK1qwIksRh5H3CJQU-7mVuX7go/s1600/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN1HQ_Ah43PwBy_FXcLr_mMJq8k6MGIZ-Bh_XJQVM9g1YgMMQpFAzj72wJ0ZKElB_U9Juh572o5w35rVXuoq9FV5PgqyrWHJdm4f1fttsO02q1kUfHvnK1qwIksRh5H3CJQU-7mVuX7go/s400/7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408112727351562370" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MTP90SapsQj_G1a41GPZjObKNLFp6yK-1iPdEfZiYmx5D_Bw4X81314Nk3I6HIcO8N1SbbX7X17U083ba5vZn8suOgsjCqYF4AfLX65Mb4xLIX9rFvLo8mVqCDyHWWtPtVYP_hqwIzM/s1600/IMG_6793.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MTP90SapsQj_G1a41GPZjObKNLFp6yK-1iPdEfZiYmx5D_Bw4X81314Nk3I6HIcO8N1SbbX7X17U083ba5vZn8suOgsjCqYF4AfLX65Mb4xLIX9rFvLo8mVqCDyHWWtPtVYP_hqwIzM/s400/IMG_6793.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408115064006356018" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBv3ENYqE8EAIaSYCd3BXTbXQInJiaMoc__gW80AmD7sIvQnPkBaiboF6Em3gCR41m3zjK7v7quoKfmJg6c6fdDcCjYfhIytPPfucD783MOr1_s3wzwMxtB4OQn6nG__ES3fXu6rL7tRg/s1600/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBv3ENYqE8EAIaSYCd3BXTbXQInJiaMoc__gW80AmD7sIvQnPkBaiboF6Em3gCR41m3zjK7v7quoKfmJg6c6fdDcCjYfhIytPPfucD783MOr1_s3wzwMxtB4OQn6nG__ES3fXu6rL7tRg/s400/6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408111411168058642" /></a><br />My dear ones, I am in Romania now. I have been busy lately and I didn't have time to write - I regret this now. It is incredible how a place can offer you good, creative energy and others can't do that. Cities are like people-they can offer you love or not, they can offer you joy or not, they can offer you everything, or not. Lisbon filled my soul with EVERYTHING I needed instantly. For me it was pure 100% magic for 2 years and a half. I have lived in a perfect state of grace for all that time, I don’t know if you can understand how somebody can be overwhelmed with happiness by his own feelings-I was like that, I used to walk in the street hand in hand with my muse, hand in hand with all the good vibes of the world. I was lucky to make secret wishes that have been nicely fulfilled by the Universe-I saw places blessed by God, waves and sunsets that made me cry, I was free and happy and sooooooo in love with Portugal. I realized over and over again that life knows exactly what you want, that you don’t have to repeat a wish over and over again, you don´t have to become obsessed with something, you just say it once and let it go. That wish will become reality one day. I still want to know, though, what in my life made me attract my departure, because I did not want it. Some questions have no answers when we want them to have. <br /><br />The last week in Portugal was the most intense. I was still in denial, hoping that some kind of miracle will happen that will make me stay there, I wished for that, wanted that, craved for that, but it didn’t happen. The funny thing is that I was sooooo happy, I made my wish and let it go, knowing that if it is meant to happen again, it will happen, <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasMrnsx94Apsch89Q4FV9ndrlTzQcu1VJaaBv3UZbVEZbLQF8WChzuewKmijJ1pv4I2nliidQ80bPQZPdcFV2rlg8WE_AQdcUEjPK2qVOzUDw5ICYL7Av26bZZSBhm5vO3aiAfI7o14s/s1600/IMG_6890.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasMrnsx94Apsch89Q4FV9ndrlTzQcu1VJaaBv3UZbVEZbLQF8WChzuewKmijJ1pv4I2nliidQ80bPQZPdcFV2rlg8WE_AQdcUEjPK2qVOzUDw5ICYL7Av26bZZSBhm5vO3aiAfI7o14s/s400/IMG_6890.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408115059651602818" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-kuYuCRFyLso5v4P5vsOsfwQAi1g92KcVMk-yi0TD0og0bNfxMtobJYNRNwbqw9fD32nJCVak7GB0LZPRGUS-sLmA6oMyxI0QyBE9mZczThCosV6pbWejf1NuuFhjpFh-LeTc2VyQwGE/s1600/a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-kuYuCRFyLso5v4P5vsOsfwQAi1g92KcVMk-yi0TD0og0bNfxMtobJYNRNwbqw9fD32nJCVak7GB0LZPRGUS-sLmA6oMyxI0QyBE9mZczThCosV6pbWejf1NuuFhjpFh-LeTc2VyQwGE/s400/a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408115050224416226" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWGiL2a9x4WEO81agNfHy_OXmpunh6HTDcIVLmWQ8Ko4P7wM28DLnPwEyRBeisE6tT7wh-G3bE9zXEp8BK6mNP1uQ0liVckkVXv4Qlhzxcqzyrt8wWPti6TFNwp4iEsrvjUSHq3T7FK3I/s1600/IMG_6781.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWGiL2a9x4WEO81agNfHy_OXmpunh6HTDcIVLmWQ8Ko4P7wM28DLnPwEyRBeisE6tT7wh-G3bE9zXEp8BK6mNP1uQ0liVckkVXv4Qlhzxcqzyrt8wWPti6TFNwp4iEsrvjUSHq3T7FK3I/s400/IMG_6781.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408106332065860162" /></a><br /><strong>The last Friday in Lisbon.</strong><br />I woke up and went to <em>Jardim da Estrela</em>, I took pictures of my dear lovely pink tree and discovered a house made out of wood in the middle of the garden- a nice project of some Portuguese designers, a house that you could rent for a night and get to sleep there, in the middle of the green nature. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I have this wish everytime I go out in open air, to be able to go and sleep under the naked sky full of stars. I did sleep in tents, I did sleep in a sleeping bag once in the middle of nowhere and I would do that all the time if I could. For a while, my wish was to sleep on my balcony in Lisbon, next to my dear Tejo and caressed by the morning rays of Sun, but I did not do it afraid of the mice-I had a nasty experience with them once and I did not want to repeat it. I did not sleep in the garden house neither, as I was supposed to book the room in advance and I was running out of my Lisbon time. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH51yJvG5kFFBnvoDZCbi0tk2-WXpg1L7CN2_yhl8h0C4o5026e8aLW-IWVzQZRdv67O1n9iOaWmtd1bFkDFEW9PhANX8P3cy4Uc2hIUntYAGyBZFb-JbL4fvNnXrNx5XV92Meuj0uI-Y/s1600/IMG_6756.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH51yJvG5kFFBnvoDZCbi0tk2-WXpg1L7CN2_yhl8h0C4o5026e8aLW-IWVzQZRdv67O1n9iOaWmtd1bFkDFEW9PhANX8P3cy4Uc2hIUntYAGyBZFb-JbL4fvNnXrNx5XV92Meuj0uI-Y/s400/IMG_6756.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408106323332554354" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgRFIa7lN1n8GXK4LALA2zWzxRLY6Ysm58Zf8BPrJ8ZXIQLKmHRe9WqjNdTQikx0lq9s52wioaK9WGm2FVMrLR_xVGs9NRhE_G8hjmAIhTWEehkGUhgW9iAqzKPThHf8DLOu3XE_s_0E/s1600/IMG_6751.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgRFIa7lN1n8GXK4LALA2zWzxRLY6Ysm58Zf8BPrJ8ZXIQLKmHRe9WqjNdTQikx0lq9s52wioaK9WGm2FVMrLR_xVGs9NRhE_G8hjmAIhTWEehkGUhgW9iAqzKPThHf8DLOu3XE_s_0E/s400/IMG_6751.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408106309509246434" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQhDuiBWgUx6msdBlEj5rTy05p2CDc9o1r37CDSTVFe896_XdQrI7Uy4NZh3wbfQC-gxaDJLcVxC8rZUVOTZA8RekUhZicUgbebU8jqkUjR8-WJqPJAIqqu0oMnjb2anzHqM1hQl6okxw/s1600/b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQhDuiBWgUx6msdBlEj5rTy05p2CDc9o1r37CDSTVFe896_XdQrI7Uy4NZh3wbfQC-gxaDJLcVxC8rZUVOTZA8RekUhZicUgbebU8jqkUjR8-WJqPJAIqqu0oMnjb2anzHqM1hQl6okxw/s400/b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408104948695080258" /></a><br /><br />That day I discovered the building of the National Archives, an amazing construction, made out of marble and with huge rooms, very strict architecture and very beautiful. I was not allowed to take pictures. <br /><br />I went then to take a walk around the house – I floated over the city, literally. I was so happy and could feel so much good energy around me, that I thought for a moment that I would see the Word “love” written on the sky. I did not see that, but I saw a red heart on the sidewalk, for me it was a normal and expected “sign” – I was surrounded by love. I took pictures of the beautiful streets, people looked at me and at the things I was shooting, I have no idea if they were seeing what I was seeing. I walked and walked and enjoyed what I love most in life-freedom and love. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7VkyJkozWbP0mSW-5V0GPSxOtEtVQ-Tc3UgFkhk-fUpXb2Ox2rcIQH6NxdsEiknpMJHKFrIPobs7RKq_nmeHAHAO4odqFsN6BnSuK0ulEootdbgmfgcMTzylDsMghCm1m-QT1HWce4KU/s1600/IMG_6877.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7VkyJkozWbP0mSW-5V0GPSxOtEtVQ-Tc3UgFkhk-fUpXb2Ox2rcIQH6NxdsEiknpMJHKFrIPobs7RKq_nmeHAHAO4odqFsN6BnSuK0ulEootdbgmfgcMTzylDsMghCm1m-QT1HWce4KU/s400/IMG_6877.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408115074248307554" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-25216896957919297052009-10-29T01:33:00.001-07:002009-11-13T01:26:31.228-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG0mf7u7ujS-ra7PhRIxsr5txdDGVAXvM1JbzOPX903LI_ttq3UIgi1BCchCz9mIOoac0Ne8WMu2yRxjlJKf6UYgubmcjSkMXiYOgnxnj7k7CTM88zBnlaAuFgwTUEB4uql3lkr62V1Zk/s1600-h/IMG_6660.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG0mf7u7ujS-ra7PhRIxsr5txdDGVAXvM1JbzOPX903LI_ttq3UIgi1BCchCz9mIOoac0Ne8WMu2yRxjlJKf6UYgubmcjSkMXiYOgnxnj7k7CTM88zBnlaAuFgwTUEB4uql3lkr62V1Zk/s400/IMG_6660.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397770041396694498" /></a><br /><br />Irrational Monica in dreamy Portugal-the country where the buildings of the State institutions are painted in pink, where you go to work at 10 o'clock just to have a place from where you could go away and have a "bica"-this is my favorite coffeeeeeee-well, it is just an espresso but I love it-and the place where you socialize with the grocery sales persons and all your neighbors. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp5trxpd9rwXGP6d2tzUibTUNDpyrTqPv6JKUlk4OTPwauPazQJR-C0Na8TaKIkBkkzak18SL3nOJDsdCtDxgLrgaK0p7-MMvkN96lNZ-Ot_ob0c5BG2nWImFNNrXZbOX0ZJ50eFpLi9k/s1600-h/IMG_6650.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp5trxpd9rwXGP6d2tzUibTUNDpyrTqPv6JKUlk4OTPwauPazQJR-C0Na8TaKIkBkkzak18SL3nOJDsdCtDxgLrgaK0p7-MMvkN96lNZ-Ot_ob0c5BG2nWImFNNrXZbOX0ZJ50eFpLi9k/s400/IMG_6650.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397770036949733698" /></a><br />I know I am passionately in love with this place because I am irrational-yes, I have to confess-but I know it will go away (not my love, nooooo), just my crazy irrational state of mind. I discovered this today when I was thinking that I should breathe this air more properly and fill up my lungs with the fresh and clean air of Portugal.... so I breathed in carefully and thoroughly and enjoyed that for a while ....and then I realized that I was in the middle of a street full of cars....so this is when I figured out that this must be crazy love. But I like my love and I like thinking that all these beautiful feelings that I have must go somewhere in the Universe and stay there, just to come back when I need them most or when it is their time :-) The dilemmas of the day are: how strong do you have to wish for a thing so that it could become reality and what happens with this love I told you about....I haven't discovered the secret yet, but if I do, I will let you know the answer so that you can fulfill your beautiful, secret dreams too. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfTkOp_OYiuY6M9_p4nLk-fJKhE5Z2j_jZ046MgHoALlMuAYHlS3VbUlQ2s2Kwt_zJWfqumvdq-gdJ84QEF8RX7Cdkcsy1hiHTdeoucG-nmM0uLH_GleY4bc37nzRQIJ1j0qgTgYwiRc/s1600-h/IMG_6649.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfTkOp_OYiuY6M9_p4nLk-fJKhE5Z2j_jZ046MgHoALlMuAYHlS3VbUlQ2s2Kwt_zJWfqumvdq-gdJ84QEF8RX7Cdkcsy1hiHTdeoucG-nmM0uLH_GleY4bc37nzRQIJ1j0qgTgYwiRc/s400/IMG_6649.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397770020296644786" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxzyr2DyI1yDHXxb0fOLXszXHJv2Fb6PvVGfJ8rw_c8WyvL0FpCYB9M2l0pk4ijcI2SyIHVPkoLHouOCh2EwNRFdQNMgiyFjs0Tt_PWHQMW9n988Mb_-azroPGLaZXpjx4dNxzshjdnc/s1600-h/IMG_6631.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDU25uMeAs3KUzzukdKqwuIKAwdqsWxfIhNEb5DAHN453fvinYNCcCq7VHByisCVlqgNHi89UMH6GTFzFmok5e9nR8FXTLi5n6LpTFdHuIaeMb-5pO9VomOlQXNhfX2IRgr_fSyarty0/s400/IMG_6464a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397683652134219970" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEBbBgGypnV1nO13QFdVxaAZbVlem9IjAT_PURrqbhYYtgsFTHP8Y8B0ZxJuoWNdXaAK6WbzG2TLN_fkQ99TY8T_M5ntJQN-cek8fMClqLmuO0zJiEDC0v7i2Ug_yMQdy5rr4MpmdKfg/s1600-h/IMG_6448.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEBbBgGypnV1nO13QFdVxaAZbVlem9IjAT_PURrqbhYYtgsFTHP8Y8B0ZxJuoWNdXaAK6WbzG2TLN_fkQ99TY8T_M5ntJQN-cek8fMClqLmuO0zJiEDC0v7i2Ug_yMQdy5rr4MpmdKfg/s400/IMG_6448.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397683640379779602" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp9UXg_Tcl7pm39bVJMh-IodaVodaJ9yep6ckzn_FPPNXKyvh2NHxMMw0OzQTdIjpJumSB4tp7s51fn7cRUIjm9FwiLeUkmXJSL3JOhipm1UmGsGg_d4zcTxC6RyggOJvoU4AvHo2-N_0/s1600-h/IMG_6446.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihvSGI29TfimR_0Q82N1GtfwdAeQZ27UZl5tDH1yaap8t_WhWArAyDEyMUDzD1ITNvw2I37Wr9hU_bRgFFr3497LybETVTGdTZ88AteeR6ZGUUQ765QJo1diEQB26brBrXCAfO433q9nQ/s400/IMG_6479.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397681417278695826" /></a><br />I think God wants to cheer me up in the morning so the first thing He does when I wake up is to offer me different kinds of presents-knowing that I like colors He sent Monet and Turner and other great painters at the same time to paint the sky for me ... and I was happy :-))<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgml6Kki3m8vdPYisCcrZjINIGDHakCeqQs222z4E6jLk3QzlOUCxZsyVwKcng1vHLq6d_5MqGCcmOBkrWnNOdDohtF-AhzKK4UBHaeaKRUvUV-KXyZ8mSovX9ELw5juIexRp1XWaFZF-g/s1600-h/IMG_6467.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgml6Kki3m8vdPYisCcrZjINIGDHakCeqQs222z4E6jLk3QzlOUCxZsyVwKcng1vHLq6d_5MqGCcmOBkrWnNOdDohtF-AhzKK4UBHaeaKRUvUV-KXyZ8mSovX9ELw5juIexRp1XWaFZF-g/s400/IMG_6467.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397681411215468962" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkbtMCEwO_hoZFqZFoNTZBxTG45dzgvUqs5O6AV4kLsAYFHqUjSjjXphGrAYZigIPRLadwkHaaiBucaejJKcTYpYAIzsWZLJp4c27gDHZyn0U9uW6k4yzVimPTYhDE-iOFVSZlH9InMxA/s1600-h/IMG_6448.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkbtMCEwO_hoZFqZFoNTZBxTG45dzgvUqs5O6AV4kLsAYFHqUjSjjXphGrAYZigIPRLadwkHaaiBucaejJKcTYpYAIzsWZLJp4c27gDHZyn0U9uW6k4yzVimPTYhDE-iOFVSZlH9InMxA/s400/IMG_6448.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397681409079934130" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Dlo5mijzJM1vWPGbNkXT7In3e1RI72OHkMwdx_2rIpF-Ib01EStVbW_qlJDjPJQODOuhuPRMRt7u-AItKnkkS0Wk_mKklILLhiEHJIpM6W1jOMXMo3kqTlN7Wa8-KkihnEr8gJt26W8/s1600-h/IMG_6438.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Dlo5mijzJM1vWPGbNkXT7In3e1RI72OHkMwdx_2rIpF-Ib01EStVbW_qlJDjPJQODOuhuPRMRt7u-AItKnkkS0Wk_mKklILLhiEHJIpM6W1jOMXMo3kqTlN7Wa8-KkihnEr8gJt26W8/s400/IMG_6438.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397681403080044162" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-62205154111308787222009-10-25T00:13:00.000-07:002009-10-25T00:32:29.524-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsIH5MtIB-amnKVHLgRwiwD9_-BaxTUx1pAGJ1pPhlq0TVM-1LXbIQiDXHnVKpT0Dw6CA5qAlmIaH4wWkUbnnZIQfiflD0P4cguYTsleHzoPMcHI2yZSwFCT0ZovYuYd4dLuFDpDp7b6E/s1600-h/ppp.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsIH5MtIB-amnKVHLgRwiwD9_-BaxTUx1pAGJ1pPhlq0TVM-1LXbIQiDXHnVKpT0Dw6CA5qAlmIaH4wWkUbnnZIQfiflD0P4cguYTsleHzoPMcHI2yZSwFCT0ZovYuYd4dLuFDpDp7b6E/s400/ppp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396436408629966674" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirY9UFjDosED399fYrFrbUfdbroG093P44V1qt0VjMlWOntZy_txBhvZGNgEeFsD7yLzJCJ-k0D1JBO4KqbZT-AvM5gHv_ERmuCG0VUF6RGrVJSmYYGarhJ0nqLUNs_e8z5eyxalo8Xdo/s1600-h/IMG_6287.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirY9UFjDosED399fYrFrbUfdbroG093P44V1qt0VjMlWOntZy_txBhvZGNgEeFsD7yLzJCJ-k0D1JBO4KqbZT-AvM5gHv_ERmuCG0VUF6RGrVJSmYYGarhJ0nqLUNs_e8z5eyxalo8Xdo/s400/IMG_6287.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396432810321985906" /></a><br />This is what nature "does" to me every single morning-a perfect performance of colors and beauty, and I have to do nothing-just to look and enjoy every single second.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHbMwaTboxsITQVlmhzeVREwcx1_tXKt9jCPDFYI37ZVIqWOq8l7Akwx0ZzDTnjfs2rFaqrl9l2JXYVCj_wwxc63qcnAwcoCgVzYqAqfFHyuwkq47u4YJaaBrBE_RlzyMhPIKl0_NkOJ8/s1600-h/IMG_6242.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ9zlBlWi5ftEyBn4SDe7Ep4ST5OAN4erwzbVLyFQWkCTw2F1gY9SwIIRzyItj_muYn_tUl5o8M_ELzxnaN-v1nltgmY_lSg8NO9rN5jmPO6qceqdUNaLi0jUc17i2GpVtX4CnmGQ8yJg/s400/IMG_6286.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396432812604114514" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidu0BQm5utygjwZXNkOWYCJwEh1vIHEFBYxXIgtiBhjQXQ32_idQtg5PjtPP-K_6T2ibYWU4S3DdYmocasQXxecfZYAW07ifCmkgh40aBpaPgr0OpOdwxVPDQltfdmPfZouIYHoCdFZ2c/s1600-h/pp.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 101px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidu0BQm5utygjwZXNkOWYCJwEh1vIHEFBYxXIgtiBhjQXQ32_idQtg5PjtPP-K_6T2ibYWU4S3DdYmocasQXxecfZYAW07ifCmkgh40aBpaPgr0OpOdwxVPDQltfdmPfZouIYHoCdFZ2c/s400/pp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396436053304891618" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-86896586958349393562009-10-22T00:42:00.001-07:002009-10-24T14:57:59.202-07:00:-))<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7157649&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7157649&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/7157649">A Walkthru with Kathleen Connally</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/squigglebooth">squigglebooth</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-50184415658753641962009-10-19T10:29:00.000-07:002009-10-19T12:55:15.612-07:00Perfect day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEjtY-ytKijPQCf1naDCyCNuofBJurN_t8L_GB6dtpuK3lmPHMPmtm-NYM64jKesb86071ErK_NCKZWv0gsOro_QBYOzzaBaIz11CdCos79K2MV7BKqoXx1KYt_-6unnKPwiPozFk1iLY/s1600-h/IMG_5829.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEjtY-ytKijPQCf1naDCyCNuofBJurN_t8L_GB6dtpuK3lmPHMPmtm-NYM64jKesb86071ErK_NCKZWv0gsOro_QBYOzzaBaIz11CdCos79K2MV7BKqoXx1KYt_-6unnKPwiPozFk1iLY/s400/IMG_5829.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394367817615888882" /></a><br /><br />When magic has to happen it just happens, it comes to you and you are heading in the right direction like a magnet. This is what I did too. I had no idea where to go, just jumped in my car, followed the seagulls and smiled at the Sun. At a given moment, I decide to stop at the first beach that "gets in my way"-so there it is, praia Grande, close to Colares. I've been there before, about two times, but it is not a place where I go very often. I stop, get into a shop, get some raspberry ice-cream, smile at a worried salesman, he smiles back and he seems to be happy...I go out with my books, sit on a bench and then.....magic begins :-)) <br /><br />I see somebody stopping just in front of me, it was a friend of mine with his girlfriend-I haven't seen him in years so that was a nice surprise especially that I want to say goodbye to so many people but never get to schedule anything given my crazy program. I couldn't believe my eyes. I was there for 5 minutes and there he was....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2om32hpMi3I94oDhAOCyIWvvw7a_7LbFWKnj4xgcN7HGrbBVDSWHT8PH82U0PdbNVMH-MCA7PFm1fSjuH9C0wW4w3CCZ-wMVodE21RjQNcEQpdO3DRfwTJBdJszF4VhOzuGWwqXFYLN0/s1600-h/IMG_5952.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2om32hpMi3I94oDhAOCyIWvvw7a_7LbFWKnj4xgcN7HGrbBVDSWHT8PH82U0PdbNVMH-MCA7PFm1fSjuH9C0wW4w3CCZ-wMVodE21RjQNcEQpdO3DRfwTJBdJszF4VhOzuGWwqXFYLN0/s400/IMG_5952.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394368957828750418" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVT22ndgjgQd64Z2JzOx2NuvhISuqKYjCJKShdyyCqdAO4Fsu5kX4XnhDoSaTzox205tsiE4Grrq06ZOI6b-JCZ1ixMNdeiLkd0ISlvr8-YgC57UwbIqTQ-BM6m72CgY5h7AnsrEKdDTE/s1600-h/IMG_5906.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVT22ndgjgQd64Z2JzOx2NuvhISuqKYjCJKShdyyCqdAO4Fsu5kX4XnhDoSaTzox205tsiE4Grrq06ZOI6b-JCZ1ixMNdeiLkd0ISlvr8-YgC57UwbIqTQ-BM6m72CgY5h7AnsrEKdDTE/s400/IMG_5906.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394368950135053938" /></a><br /><br />I think the effect of my very spiritual book placed me soon into the middle of the beach reading. I had no idea what I was waiting for, just enjoying sooooo much the day and the Sun. I guess in a previous life I must have been an Egyptian Sun worshiper because otherwise I cannot explain my CRAZY love for the Sun. My friends know that sometimes I even talk to him to get out of the clouds and most of the time he does that-and very soon :-) but hey....you would think I am crazy :-)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi427r7v9a1SAa7NL6-Z-g8fHAjbUydmpd660Mm0gqCyJe-SgS3wzXg1D7lASYUxhvyjdcM2dgXv3xVUwObTAbvVU2cdYOrfn_UaxJ40RK0-cySuxnvY3EEIPj4v_y6H3s6YuYQu16a3ps/s1600-h/e.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi427r7v9a1SAa7NL6-Z-g8fHAjbUydmpd660Mm0gqCyJe-SgS3wzXg1D7lASYUxhvyjdcM2dgXv3xVUwObTAbvVU2cdYOrfn_UaxJ40RK0-cySuxnvY3EEIPj4v_y6H3s6YuYQu16a3ps/s400/e.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394368499046267794" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oxBWh-IOhyphenhyphenSNNPsXIIp3dhTKJK7RCTpV35Ug2UNd2DF2EgVdhoimsPomZr7OnLsDE6S3KK_I9VOeNBLkmHYVtK8AGO0KS3b51xMbO622nFrjro9id_xdo9cEXRv96fxSXxh8ypknx9Q/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oxBWh-IOhyphenhyphenSNNPsXIIp3dhTKJK7RCTpV35Ug2UNd2DF2EgVdhoimsPomZr7OnLsDE6S3KK_I9VOeNBLkmHYVtK8AGO0KS3b51xMbO622nFrjro9id_xdo9cEXRv96fxSXxh8ypknx9Q/s400/a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394368468727292626" /></a><br /><br />I decide to take a walk and ..... get to see one of the most beautiful, overwhelming serene sunset I have ever seen in my life. I don't know how it manages to surprise me every single time. It is like the first time I see a sunset, it is like the first time I get to hear the Ocean and I am completely amazed and transposed to another dimension. Really to another dimension, where nothing really matters, where everything is love, where all the worries are gone and my heart is so happy. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCl1v02YzzPZq2lCfSDLycfTVo9iEaNv-Zv04xolqGSkQWPtaPLrF7nczvNUclwRr2gFwCOh5JVyWdHBbTxMxKWA7nPp0Ccp5TN1vc9eYlXtImM7agyG2ZQY76dR0_83T1JEurlut3Ovk/s1600-h/IMG_5839.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCl1v02YzzPZq2lCfSDLycfTVo9iEaNv-Zv04xolqGSkQWPtaPLrF7nczvNUclwRr2gFwCOh5JVyWdHBbTxMxKWA7nPp0Ccp5TN1vc9eYlXtImM7agyG2ZQY76dR0_83T1JEurlut3Ovk/s400/IMG_5839.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394367830951536642" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPMUdCBXD3OhQ59shYbHp-fWkTz7dL6dDro7GfK4TLHUoceT64DHV_iFQGkvBVSNJtA_iZ9EuzVGY3KyAfoQ640Tsutgf2ZJrYO0cJe_WrvrgtSluJqaa8gbD6n8h2qcwYKbpTvsrttc4/s1600-h/IMG_6000-2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPMUdCBXD3OhQ59shYbHp-fWkTz7dL6dDro7GfK4TLHUoceT64DHV_iFQGkvBVSNJtA_iZ9EuzVGY3KyAfoQ640Tsutgf2ZJrYO0cJe_WrvrgtSluJqaa8gbD6n8h2qcwYKbpTvsrttc4/s400/IMG_6000-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394368941672710034" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-79573907007036208222009-10-15T15:38:00.000-07:002009-10-15T15:45:19.738-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibl9ocb61Rtmsl8YG3BMTO5CAz5scFEspUv-1dLnVC-7o7AKHx3uI6DMQ3cM9CgbYbb34SQKjnq88xU3bZdd5mSmvhLiVE2Q4rQYYEYujbGbypepbycj__siFvQs9vyIL4c_lZ836p60M/s1600-h/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 54px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibl9ocb61Rtmsl8YG3BMTO5CAz5scFEspUv-1dLnVC-7o7AKHx3uI6DMQ3cM9CgbYbb34SQKjnq88xU3bZdd5mSmvhLiVE2Q4rQYYEYujbGbypepbycj__siFvQs9vyIL4c_lZ836p60M/s400/11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392960813324736818" /></a><br />I swear I have included in my ritual the "love declaration" for Lisbon. I wake up in the morning, I look at the amazingly beautiful colors that I get to see from my balcony, I think they are surreal and that I actually live in a dream and I say out loud in Romanian "I love you Lisbon"...and then...just like if she could understand I say it also in English and I do my best to say it in Portuguese with the most authentic accent ... and then I am sure that she does understand....I treat her like a human being - and I am sure she is more than a human being....so alive and beautiful. Love.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTwFFuXqKueMQzZOBz1AOa6qLRsajFZvADSiiSJXV9mCYWJretWRav5yMKS46EXfW2pdE7TEYN1UmQWfjBnw7q2zaCfpfctnYqTazQhLt8i4vWEtPbo78MILZpjPhiq_AxcokMhJqF6ac/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTwFFuXqKueMQzZOBz1AOa6qLRsajFZvADSiiSJXV9mCYWJretWRav5yMKS46EXfW2pdE7TEYN1UmQWfjBnw7q2zaCfpfctnYqTazQhLt8i4vWEtPbo78MILZpjPhiq_AxcokMhJqF6ac/s400/3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392960817812039234" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDT5odDn34LJ2i9tNJ9OaTKbJXwVP21gg-heVKkGpz6BCyP1kGP2N8q284W85GybUGNdabFmSfGGFkX271CEbVNDoN-0QCsRY50U3z2hxv7kb6FZc1W9-rWlVKA_ugSds3Uw7GNExsMs/s1600-h/IMG_5723.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDT5odDn34LJ2i9tNJ9OaTKbJXwVP21gg-heVKkGpz6BCyP1kGP2N8q284W85GybUGNdabFmSfGGFkX271CEbVNDoN-0QCsRY50U3z2hxv7kb6FZc1W9-rWlVKA_ugSds3Uw7GNExsMs/s400/IMG_5723.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392960828264419010" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-26499869880597549382009-10-14T23:27:00.000-07:002009-10-15T00:01:23.966-07:00Amalia Day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeduoxqDN86abcWgEOZIDZieq5zrrv3sZPkjVXPsKBFhc7Z4LwFKMu5YDmdVchxKcizwePo4Q2OjOAU-BoDo-NfCcg57PCvxEyopsOZzFvA5LEjNDTV-CEkxiY_BvRbZ9AHU_Vi9see_8/s1600-h/IMG_5586.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeduoxqDN86abcWgEOZIDZieq5zrrv3sZPkjVXPsKBFhc7Z4LwFKMu5YDmdVchxKcizwePo4Q2OjOAU-BoDo-NfCcg57PCvxEyopsOZzFvA5LEjNDTV-CEkxiY_BvRbZ9AHU_Vi9see_8/s400/IMG_5586.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392709802289879842" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPuKCwNGyz2CMYsHX_1rDmRtkPgpiKHxaNeblS9zk-4h01-PxIizN1XvOblx-FMmpV9qQ8WTKsYOKGH-8Ddxz9E05fkBDWLZ6d26PTlsfRP0NGkSWicJOPRJIG5Uwyvmnhu4V77iLn-c/s1600-h/IMG_5594.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPuKCwNGyz2CMYsHX_1rDmRtkPgpiKHxaNeblS9zk-4h01-PxIizN1XvOblx-FMmpV9qQ8WTKsYOKGH-8Ddxz9E05fkBDWLZ6d26PTlsfRP0NGkSWicJOPRJIG5Uwyvmnhu4V77iLn-c/s400/IMG_5594.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392715428660105282" /></a><br />I know almost nothing about Amalia Rodrigues. I visited though her lovely house close to where I live (in São Bento) and I listen to her songs from time to time - I think I will soon develop a nice obsession with the Portuguese language when I get home and I believe that I will learn her songs by heart (like I do it with Mariza and sing out loud along with her while I drive :-)). I know though that Amalia had a very close friend, Doina Zugravescu (a Romanian lady), who has a house in Lisbon (you can find her on Google) and I wonder what she could tell the world about Amalia. The nice exhibition that I saw was at Museu Berrardo (there is another one this year at Museu da Electricidade, but I haven't managed to see it yet-too many things that need to be done and seen :-) Have a lovely day!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFe0tWqYW27hyphenhyphenSqJMhyP8HTrd-c_fm0g8Z_tNia6AULJ71Bphc-uvoS3CjCTkvaVsoWm_gXkwoW40MUyeHFZwQGCF9-myPyaiJnKRS_l9VMXn8Vz6OnFRRCyKp_mdoBJHzoMPxwAhJzrc/s1600-h/IMG_5632.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 356px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFe0tWqYW27hyphenhyphenSqJMhyP8HTrd-c_fm0g8Z_tNia6AULJ71Bphc-uvoS3CjCTkvaVsoWm_gXkwoW40MUyeHFZwQGCF9-myPyaiJnKRS_l9VMXn8Vz6OnFRRCyKp_mdoBJHzoMPxwAhJzrc/s400/IMG_5632.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392716142281957154" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6JzLQEfvGzaKfaSuMx_8P2Pm9x_LZdafgfsJPz3daJ2NiSQlihmpX24G6kIqCI2CR1__9U9DzhnpswjojHLlMZshkhvi8sP3jMwhZunUzDDK6JJKeUdf6kcvgIOZID00ZPcVFFl0Svu0/s1600-h/IMG_5633.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOPbuyST2WTmVWIeLR-Y2XfJphp3UTE9fvrjEqac3TEKXLbNVLw0OSyJmpLDCP_TgDJAV8rBm31sI9QOhDCJ2UlOVCKXTunPaAlVPutstZw8_SzF_Ymp2ApzMQxaAiW0c2eiES-_5GRE/s400/5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391979325813331346" /></a><br />"I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments" - Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat, Pray, Love" :-)))<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoW34sUUySpOSulrLmUnJqErblQpnk4RlcCsCXGr_w9dNmPtxnl6ayIPV9FvqTrGlFLhzkfpVeJeS04ORKPjsX6tZw2Fc1go0d0mIZkWAjpol0L_fQzCZFWsU6QyOcZV5jQYpS6Z1GmIo/s1600-h/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoW34sUUySpOSulrLmUnJqErblQpnk4RlcCsCXGr_w9dNmPtxnl6ayIPV9FvqTrGlFLhzkfpVeJeS04ORKPjsX6tZw2Fc1go0d0mIZkWAjpol0L_fQzCZFWsU6QyOcZV5jQYpS6Z1GmIo/s400/10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391980423349689058" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtJbFmkgg_uZ1BhO6eSWRNpzdHMt-JFteDreHRzIVtMOf5EbG7NCXGDn17002FbT3CDKcIeONJhbJ5E15rso83h2aKDrzXk5tl80geD1XR_YuvLlyYkEmgPA58wrdH60BRULMMqxVhPho/s1600-h/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtJbFmkgg_uZ1BhO6eSWRNpzdHMt-JFteDreHRzIVtMOf5EbG7NCXGDn17002FbT3CDKcIeONJhbJ5E15rso83h2aKDrzXk5tl80geD1XR_YuvLlyYkEmgPA58wrdH60BRULMMqxVhPho/s400/8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391979344292873346" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6X_QWw7tZbXJGWGZKepv7fRJglHb_ctWLEI0UqhOQxpPwz7RiiLhdkOA-LdAg1snMyFLebPZvZedC-DOTzkFt-mHq9HuJchwuqD8l1OKPlrRqWHMHWvZw5qED-tohbs-6_XuBl37z3Y/s1600-h/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6X_QWw7tZbXJGWGZKepv7fRJglHb_ctWLEI0UqhOQxpPwz7RiiLhdkOA-LdAg1snMyFLebPZvZedC-DOTzkFt-mHq9HuJchwuqD8l1OKPlrRqWHMHWvZw5qED-tohbs-6_XuBl37z3Y/s400/7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391979337926332066" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.freebloghitcounter.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.freebloghitcounter.com/counter.php?page=pretendingtosaygoodbye.blogspot.com/&digits=47&unique=0" alt="Free Blog Hit Counter" border="0"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.freebloghitcounter.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: #000000">Free Blog Hit Counter</a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-36909692738682008592009-10-11T01:18:00.000-07:002009-10-12T14:38:50.927-07:00The Matrix Day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyk_rQZWG6x6Fr7qZVsjHIeu_DkQRINgdRKa2R64g4wSL5yLGFYDFEnOGw0slXU9btZZMO2tUw-YNZKhBU7ARYDSzG9vPfq5x7QmtMTOyQjmT-4yg0_aE_4RRvWx2gZ5dxqZ29knhaP8k/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyk_rQZWG6x6Fr7qZVsjHIeu_DkQRINgdRKa2R64g4wSL5yLGFYDFEnOGw0slXU9btZZMO2tUw-YNZKhBU7ARYDSzG9vPfq5x7QmtMTOyQjmT-4yg0_aE_4RRvWx2gZ5dxqZ29knhaP8k/s400/3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391254496716637650" /></a><br />My matrix day-wondering how powerful our thoughts can be, how perfect and yes, correct, life is, how everything flows according to us. If we could only understand and never forget that we guide life with our thoughts, that dreams can turn into reality very easily, that we all contribute to the "whole". Yes, I believe in this and I believe that our weaknesses (doubts, second thoughts, lack of consistency, imbalance) produce cracks in our own "system" and we end up in different points depending on that. I have been thinking about this lately-how I attracted certain things and people in my life, how I made these things and people go away-unconsciously I think I wanted that to happen, or because of my fears and doubts I opened huge cracks that unbalanced everything. This is why I like certain people and avoid others. I don't need negativity, I don't need second thoughts , I don't need doubts and uncertainty. Lisbon and Portugal have offered me the luxury of being able to dream, to ignore these people and situations, to let myself flow over this amazing country, to dream afar and project good things into the Universe. And for this I love this place. I do not know if it has to do with me, with my way of being also, but sure it does with this amazingly peaceful country. It is like you walk on peaceful land, where everything is in harmony, where the negativity is taken away by the strong wind and where the Sun shines happily. I love Portugal for this and I love Portuguese for being able to assimilate all these good energies-I know I don't like certain things in them, but I think that they posses this ability-to listen to nature, to their feelings and to be grateful for the little things that they get in life. Everything is so fragile and subtle and they know how to handle this. And all this harmony creates harmony, and all this lack of thinking creates that state of bliss where all the worries are gone. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAK6ZkX9nzCTuHLszRFTpqeqhSEjMhOQNYej2xrY19D13DrsDpQBWrA0MwWZ7n7JG0ZWuFluH-NTMXlEcHrJ9kH8I_KXS0ARjFdYmE_n-r-eUmbIJH7XK8us5Eo5JmFLXFvZPoDieoTO0/s1600-h/IMG_5643.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAK6ZkX9nzCTuHLszRFTpqeqhSEjMhOQNYej2xrY19D13DrsDpQBWrA0MwWZ7n7JG0ZWuFluH-NTMXlEcHrJ9kH8I_KXS0ARjFdYmE_n-r-eUmbIJH7XK8us5Eo5JmFLXFvZPoDieoTO0/s400/IMG_5643.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391255129283351666" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8YGgLt2NHgCyHCFc_dZmcIZ5hBXUJD16DMKx4P5DQ9EBgTwS5Xf0BRBUq7fafrpqNCWF-FBWMdH6yJlkKFxL_aOtRURON8lqJbqMj0EBX4yL4ZyaUHkUXphEZTUgaCp2DsvjRbLDnPnY/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8YGgLt2NHgCyHCFc_dZmcIZ5hBXUJD16DMKx4P5DQ9EBgTwS5Xf0BRBUq7fafrpqNCWF-FBWMdH6yJlkKFxL_aOtRURON8lqJbqMj0EBX4yL4ZyaUHkUXphEZTUgaCp2DsvjRbLDnPnY/s400/2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391254488236613634" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIbHMt_tXkJjhxdKgz80qZJ5WhPTbXyspeDHVkSh8MS8G-0Jh6sgfHhfmk6yRkHLJJLuJ9WqvQSvz1XHvQEeTaaBPwPg_Nni7LnJDTzfvBWjD6yaW35spU4MO5wLbkpNsLw1ZZ5sQftQ/s1600-h/IMG_5644.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIbHMt_tXkJjhxdKgz80qZJ5WhPTbXyspeDHVkSh8MS8G-0Jh6sgfHhfmk6yRkHLJJLuJ9WqvQSvz1XHvQEeTaaBPwPg_Nni7LnJDTzfvBWjD6yaW35spU4MO5wLbkpNsLw1ZZ5sQftQ/s400/IMG_5644.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391255117266958898" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-31316757743129603132009-10-10T00:00:00.000-07:002009-10-10T06:24:25.702-07:00My day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh1RZPTLcEgoQcInvMXaANGWENq7I2sBNhg58b4VRmAMZ8MEGzujE7pgEm7hixlFJ-H9Q64s2UnZFsZrz__jhShd6c0tM7Q_udJYgXTrps5AoI4qz41S_isj9qmmnsLxVNK2Gnb0CYgrg/s1600-h/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh1RZPTLcEgoQcInvMXaANGWENq7I2sBNhg58b4VRmAMZ8MEGzujE7pgEm7hixlFJ-H9Q64s2UnZFsZrz__jhShd6c0tM7Q_udJYgXTrps5AoI4qz41S_isj9qmmnsLxVNK2Gnb0CYgrg/s400/8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390864168743408370" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3VAIzAm4Oo72Zm2Lrwtv4ufmEW0Cl84npLMWtbYU3U0iH3k-xEJ09NX9yfgBEtFiG8-SdBSvPFABLCdSbxHejXUBhMcO7vRq5Jd36wJyaDjfzKlJlqOsy7F1yaZpy9SXQeAL8oMSIMI/s1600-h/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3VAIzAm4Oo72Zm2Lrwtv4ufmEW0Cl84npLMWtbYU3U0iH3k-xEJ09NX9yfgBEtFiG8-SdBSvPFABLCdSbxHejXUBhMcO7vRq5Jd36wJyaDjfzKlJlqOsy7F1yaZpy9SXQeAL8oMSIMI/s400/16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390864789321991570" /></a><br />I cannot find the reason yet why Lisbon has decided to send me away. I love her, she loves me :-) ....but still she decided that we have to be apart for a while. I believe this is only to test my reaction when it comes to saying good-byes, departures, breaking-up etc etc-I am an "expert" with this, but I still haven't learned to handle all these strong emotions and I think I will never will. I have decided that Lisbon suits me, that I want to live next to the sea (the OCEAN, not a sea-I learned only here that sea=lake and yes, it is true!!), to have a big house with a wall made out of glass, to listen to the waves in the morning and ignore all the useless things in life. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWfguWQhSNg6QBnGvc7t3ol7sYVvSGK2IsQfxsXlua9w_qzFx4yD80GaVt4wUvjWfIlXoWhyphenhyphendRH59OQDc2K_MXEyFYSz8m5iOuksGZneRO-cjiAhMTy5jNm1AbzK1TFeaX9E7Atzrji1U/s1600-h/IMG_5488.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWfguWQhSNg6QBnGvc7t3ol7sYVvSGK2IsQfxsXlua9w_qzFx4yD80GaVt4wUvjWfIlXoWhyphenhyphendRH59OQDc2K_MXEyFYSz8m5iOuksGZneRO-cjiAhMTy5jNm1AbzK1TFeaX9E7Atzrji1U/s400/IMG_5488.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390865530942668082" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicd3gmNGXvRYR7_2Pm70gAfn_RVE4plnx7plKQvTkrFRWoN2sAoK9UMnV5vrpioP4rMS1g9DAQqYAHIKRXvIHKGKuUOMkqKWOZ0FYrI-c263tg_5hZUrGpU8x_9K8HMqSYniCmsxiarTQ/s1600-h/IMG_5493.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicd3gmNGXvRYR7_2Pm70gAfn_RVE4plnx7plKQvTkrFRWoN2sAoK9UMnV5vrpioP4rMS1g9DAQqYAHIKRXvIHKGKuUOMkqKWOZ0FYrI-c263tg_5hZUrGpU8x_9K8HMqSYniCmsxiarTQ/s400/IMG_5493.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390865513300199890" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-iQBApE9EMF-UlJhx8b_BhQJhdcSxoxmJj_4FlI4fMeVM2l7oWwW-kejvt9Z8fvknIreT2cf9f7y01XdGGOQKQhBFovtnhcChBBmYXBpYagnUNO1Dhk5KTAQdP61FYtLYhdenk4Pue7Q/s1600-h/IMG_5500.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-iQBApE9EMF-UlJhx8b_BhQJhdcSxoxmJj_4FlI4fMeVM2l7oWwW-kejvt9Z8fvknIreT2cf9f7y01XdGGOQKQhBFovtnhcChBBmYXBpYagnUNO1Dhk5KTAQdP61FYtLYhdenk4Pue7Q/s400/IMG_5500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390865500070126882" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHu0iljdiHwb32Hw9EB5IBqwqx9N7V7AjZmKf4x1-WCe32h6KzjXXqDSMYvhTAqkY5XOBzNJCGlPuMFGthx1Z4zA7YarwcqQAkVoyp2LrRzyQ467SZ54AUXjompxBu75a60iUyW-0UQ0E/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHu0iljdiHwb32Hw9EB5IBqwqx9N7V7AjZmKf4x1-WCe32h6KzjXXqDSMYvhTAqkY5XOBzNJCGlPuMFGthx1Z4zA7YarwcqQAkVoyp2LrRzyQ467SZ54AUXjompxBu75a60iUyW-0UQ0E/s400/6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390863141009550594" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUyy4IOdkdjVJBMOTze2tI27y4gCmumc0ieql7VoCDrNPKvMfiPLvyeu9a30HPJvmf-Li7SQBM4tsb4wdQVjgpEJ4YkhoDaVfphNAM2A_BySL9Csf2wiKiLcX12oZ5i8LE-6ddftPOHM4/s1600-h/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUyy4IOdkdjVJBMOTze2tI27y4gCmumc0ieql7VoCDrNPKvMfiPLvyeu9a30HPJvmf-Li7SQBM4tsb4wdQVjgpEJ4YkhoDaVfphNAM2A_BySL9Csf2wiKiLcX12oZ5i8LE-6ddftPOHM4/s400/17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390864790419461218" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimVfJSQRQMw-RZIFV7Bo9cwfQASutGYJ0WBezDl3WCheurAMJaWoo-z7D24rq4PM6OEEWzvX3b3KNdwCnvwqVQi4PBuqkL8ZJkkOB6zV78ye0447pUmZLRPr8n6V1BHmrQHrGyThufYf4/s1600-h/13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimVfJSQRQMw-RZIFV7Bo9cwfQASutGYJ0WBezDl3WCheurAMJaWoo-z7D24rq4PM6OEEWzvX3b3KNdwCnvwqVQi4PBuqkL8ZJkkOB6zV78ye0447pUmZLRPr8n6V1BHmrQHrGyThufYf4/s400/13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390864779452847090" /></a><br />Do you have any idea what the smell of the Eucalyptus tree bark smells like? divine....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR2nlc5-nLRKone0CIeKrb2yPzJh-dmg-wA-nnthqBhooulV_wzBz9gMukX2-K3z8-jVm8BYKVnTBxVmMIaD-qooodf2gvtO9MHXE70emsuUUSk6HMW_Lx4NcGJMqDymCVTuxmL5_Ll_c/s1600-h/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR2nlc5-nLRKone0CIeKrb2yPzJh-dmg-wA-nnthqBhooulV_wzBz9gMukX2-K3z8-jVm8BYKVnTBxVmMIaD-qooodf2gvtO9MHXE70emsuUUSk6HMW_Lx4NcGJMqDymCVTuxmL5_Ll_c/s400/9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390864175601043106" /></a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GZkVirqA_So&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GZkVirqA_So&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-73927909964297919442009-10-06T09:41:00.001-07:002009-10-06T10:14:25.175-07:00Love DayEven though these days the Sun is not out, the rain is here and the lovely colors of Lisbon are somehow not as vivid as I know them, my heart is absolutely filled with light and love. Yes. I have to confess that I feel like the good fairy these days. I talk to people (secretly, in my mind) who interact with me and whenever I see them smile I send them my love. You would think that I am crazy, but I am not :-)) - of course, who could ever confess that. My "target" now are the people working at Pingo Doce-my lovely supermarket just at the corner of the street, the lovely people with kind and smily faces. I know them all by know-I know who is in charge with what, how fast or slow they are, smart or less smart, who looks in my eyes whenever they had to give me the change...and so on. I thank them all and they don't know that, but I will miss them all. I am sorry I cannot take pictures of their lovely, friendly faces and post them here-I will miss the guy who sells bread and who smiles at me so kindly (he likes me, I like him too :-)), I will miss the cashier who asks me every time "precisa do saco?", the fat, African lady who sings and sells fish, the toothless old lady who I guess must be some kind of supervisor of all the cashiers and so on. So I send them all my love, wish them luck and want to see them again soon. Love.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOs-OspTkq8MeKGP1nVzJfaD3-TJtKkREp41qNUzwRy9-3UT5Zm8RzQ1V7ZRTf5vq4MOm3F5QIkbu4doSRrnAPO8SY1tkSQG2lhzvlohmR16IV31PGxQ0I7I7L-NAFsY4f-dikDS_feM/s1600-h/aa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOs-OspTkq8MeKGP1nVzJfaD3-TJtKkREp41qNUzwRy9-3UT5Zm8RzQ1V7ZRTf5vq4MOm3F5QIkbu4doSRrnAPO8SY1tkSQG2lhzvlohmR16IV31PGxQ0I7I7L-NAFsY4f-dikDS_feM/s400/aa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389536479420560898" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-85139086771646033982009-10-04T14:44:00.000-07:002009-10-04T15:07:50.347-07:00The Day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAGBQmCkvZIcl8s77Sd7QJLVBWl3zdtg94B7-ZScLj3sQBXU-_-xCkRL2GrNbETwpU0QHf4RCG6-CGYPfbY6i5vp3As_yyKCD0KP_sMcj4qgaTvTCT_KVdBDJz84Dlx4TXe41Y6CN8tOI/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAGBQmCkvZIcl8s77Sd7QJLVBWl3zdtg94B7-ZScLj3sQBXU-_-xCkRL2GrNbETwpU0QHf4RCG6-CGYPfbY6i5vp3As_yyKCD0KP_sMcj4qgaTvTCT_KVdBDJz84Dlx4TXe41Y6CN8tOI/s400/c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388864884767735874" /></a><br />You know when you wake up and you have that feeling that something fabulous is going to happen? Well, this feeling was today with me and I really didn't know what to expect. Since I wanted to catch another moment with fog in Lisbon, I guess this was the nice surprise of the day :-) I swear that some days ago I was thinking-hm, such a pity that I am leaving, I will not get to see fog again in Lisbon (and trust me, Lisbon is great with fog!!)-the last time I took pictures with fog was in March 2008. Somebody must have listened to my secret wish :-) thank you. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoxnNJJ4LRpumZhKftkSZT-AEDq9KZFU5re1zWmVkPz0AmWqpe-Mvvce7RS_j59tZoPoh7tK0oj5qW3Ie9xrHYJC23jZenGJMbw1ykt3jsLvGf4lYc9OiLeZB-wuTQikdZuy0-i2cqSgg/s1600-h/g.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoxnNJJ4LRpumZhKftkSZT-AEDq9KZFU5re1zWmVkPz0AmWqpe-Mvvce7RS_j59tZoPoh7tK0oj5qW3Ie9xrHYJC23jZenGJMbw1ykt3jsLvGf4lYc9OiLeZB-wuTQikdZuy0-i2cqSgg/s400/g.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388865853753747842" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmeOVfl-r6R11MBdHxt-E1dlcLHZB1A_amOEU3v0nD-lKY5P4nRFZhozFIzYqh57XfRdltCO1F60veAQ-K0ujily_P0Cgej0MPZ2rvkn9-_WtYRTG7gy3DGWa1kawzlU3TVbLnTj01dY/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmeOVfl-r6R11MBdHxt-E1dlcLHZB1A_amOEU3v0nD-lKY5P4nRFZhozFIzYqh57XfRdltCO1F60veAQ-K0ujily_P0Cgej0MPZ2rvkn9-_WtYRTG7gy3DGWa1kawzlU3TVbLnTj01dY/s400/b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388864879271426930" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiixZDW6S7ve2kFVar7NlAWKk3EyAK1qlTX24VvCJC5Uuoc-roOCkpnpahkGUKVBwDkJlfUjqn9Hz_dK62WX4Eqq3gmLQNbHGdlrGC5qSPG1sTTKFqVyGN10lBbbX5hiXIdYcERKuy5hTs/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiixZDW6S7ve2kFVar7NlAWKk3EyAK1qlTX24VvCJC5Uuoc-roOCkpnpahkGUKVBwDkJlfUjqn9Hz_dK62WX4Eqq3gmLQNbHGdlrGC5qSPG1sTTKFqVyGN10lBbbX5hiXIdYcERKuy5hTs/s400/a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388864870756427106" /></a><br /><br />I just couldn't believe my eyes how beautiful and perfect everything was under this bridge. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-76S_jDFb5-_UbmODk6VOBiCWUDQzL75Cx2zFVAEyoKObGm0Mr1MGR8I4qOClvau__g9OJ7DMTKZMBtObyxJA8Eonukozldj5zdXfGHMjRlIrGYbUh3z1RIEv_rMbBkUs2QX-DcnPC4/s1600-h/j.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 91px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-76S_jDFb5-_UbmODk6VOBiCWUDQzL75Cx2zFVAEyoKObGm0Mr1MGR8I4qOClvau__g9OJ7DMTKZMBtObyxJA8Eonukozldj5zdXfGHMjRlIrGYbUh3z1RIEv_rMbBkUs2QX-DcnPC4/s400/j.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388866558935868786" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2gBSk3I9VuzoQ33gyQhXoq1kpBq78h8yn7Y-7LLnL8fZNEBqzMjVRWWAoJad8T-Vfo_fzgDka29tXe_x3CKxvAOhTYDfipCMOiJvvE_iPJr8Jq3ibjOJSIMqj6_GiMdxcpoGQ8qrTu8/s1600-h/f.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2gBSk3I9VuzoQ33gyQhXoq1kpBq78h8yn7Y-7LLnL8fZNEBqzMjVRWWAoJad8T-Vfo_fzgDka29tXe_x3CKxvAOhTYDfipCMOiJvvE_iPJr8Jq3ibjOJSIMqj6_GiMdxcpoGQ8qrTu8/s400/f.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388865881877569714" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wJatHko-ERy9uYKfmdyJWTwQAtdDWH54hT03F_9P4nQI0E9iDlRvA2KwY2A-1A_5fnaB8JQ-3ExGD17wPltPqfrn2scXdsCMfF5jReNg0aLpJNkYXjJP0RBF_rR-cIq4F8vcJqmOOx4/s1600-h/d.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wJatHko-ERy9uYKfmdyJWTwQAtdDWH54hT03F_9P4nQI0E9iDlRvA2KwY2A-1A_5fnaB8JQ-3ExGD17wPltPqfrn2scXdsCMfF5jReNg0aLpJNkYXjJP0RBF_rR-cIq4F8vcJqmOOx4/s400/d.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388865870964278914" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-73686915407628339042009-10-03T10:57:00.000-07:002009-10-03T11:42:11.373-07:00Day B-Day Bliss<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLH1ofba-_2_n9zMMWpZ3BcRjNP5yzGp_ErrhvsoZGJ5g-blgWteX6F7wB3nAWvtBAmdrDhPml1cLXXYaoyQlMHXnCBeXu7Jv0bG39EBvCWCIjpAzYDN1xyWzBbpjO2Kj79s6thNp_LB8/s1600-h/IMG_5036a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLH1ofba-_2_n9zMMWpZ3BcRjNP5yzGp_ErrhvsoZGJ5g-blgWteX6F7wB3nAWvtBAmdrDhPml1cLXXYaoyQlMHXnCBeXu7Jv0bG39EBvCWCIjpAzYDN1xyWzBbpjO2Kj79s6thNp_LB8/s400/IMG_5036a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388441922847478146" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWKJrSLOg7eIgNH2h4lkGofWVKKXW94ljtB3aoX6GsVShDVKtS7vnnbBDygU4PvPV-iQK6tdMv21HbSWMtfVzeNMpX_G_U9NIYK7Id4fWFXUM8MNCjpkNfvR4XCt9omEb-JTPvia0U-SM/s1600-h/IMG_5061a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 178px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWKJrSLOg7eIgNH2h4lkGofWVKKXW94ljtB3aoX6GsVShDVKtS7vnnbBDygU4PvPV-iQK6tdMv21HbSWMtfVzeNMpX_G_U9NIYK7Id4fWFXUM8MNCjpkNfvR4XCt9omEb-JTPvia0U-SM/s400/IMG_5061a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388436792538644546" /></a><br />What an amazing, blessed day. Sunny and lovely. I loved it. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFT9TtRYhvNb-HsfHq67ENRjAveZyow52Xzli7C7gfp9kXUm7revql9TC597gNg24xq5nSqo9viRg7LmG8X0i7irnvfDHFLL8cJ-yKRmrrL2uBNjWp1oM-7UkVyE2n5lTDrsnxKalmMqQ/s1600-h/IMG_5059a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFT9TtRYhvNb-HsfHq67ENRjAveZyow52Xzli7C7gfp9kXUm7revql9TC597gNg24xq5nSqo9viRg7LmG8X0i7irnvfDHFLL8cJ-yKRmrrL2uBNjWp1oM-7UkVyE2n5lTDrsnxKalmMqQ/s400/IMG_5059a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388436016950314146" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0qEzN6uZlBRIUDgVy2F8N7aQiNkuneMh87iOQG5wFL0sihSYsfc0b-hYwiL5q3hR6bbsfjqwyPTdk4ftUqP9UwsG71fvKA9gtwifJJjdPJFqB11v1_tBt0QHG7JrjOug9asFybCGvM3s/s1600-h/IMG_5054a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0qEzN6uZlBRIUDgVy2F8N7aQiNkuneMh87iOQG5wFL0sihSYsfc0b-hYwiL5q3hR6bbsfjqwyPTdk4ftUqP9UwsG71fvKA9gtwifJJjdPJFqB11v1_tBt0QHG7JrjOug9asFybCGvM3s/s400/IMG_5054a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388436006919549634" /></a><br />I had no idea that on a day with light traffic I could get to Caparica in 15 minutes-this is what I did and enjoyed every single second and every single ray of Sun. It is amazing to read and while you have a break to walk on the lovely sand of this huge beach. I even lost my way :-) searching for the car. Love U!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1KjcZEMQ8dQ9IlorzDtjTzNcOUkmAd7_tkteUf0WLmysqZ6r6a3id8IEufoEl2O2efT1jac4-V2J8wM36CaPdTJQl4MNjB4xxsrz8uVHwZcVPeUghqxy3Ab69qhhuyoG1OW-U0PmY6ic/s1600-h/IMG_5179a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1KjcZEMQ8dQ9IlorzDtjTzNcOUkmAd7_tkteUf0WLmysqZ6r6a3id8IEufoEl2O2efT1jac4-V2J8wM36CaPdTJQl4MNjB4xxsrz8uVHwZcVPeUghqxy3Ab69qhhuyoG1OW-U0PmY6ic/s400/IMG_5179a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388437570977101842" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSTKuMxvpQlCeYQrjj9QFa6H6NY9uBffn-bvE0H3xlx6QMb-FOi30SIpH70AIH3f2x2OBuo9Xd2lTBMhp0cAcbhYSKosMmbqe0Jn02UfBvKAeVk6fSFYqMYrfJAGrI5F-2iP-mdDGpgsk/s1600-h/IMG_5178a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 135px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSTKuMxvpQlCeYQrjj9QFa6H6NY9uBffn-bvE0H3xlx6QMb-FOi30SIpH70AIH3f2x2OBuo9Xd2lTBMhp0cAcbhYSKosMmbqe0Jn02UfBvKAeVk6fSFYqMYrfJAGrI5F-2iP-mdDGpgsk/s400/IMG_5178a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388437566299436386" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbRSceuVsKfasw29l1pqUlCf5Bk9jXXolU7MnqxoHXCZhdhd-hS5BQApu3WT0cV-OJklj5k2KRlUtJHyqkzRGTDByUIlGu9uUj2BLWO2imBWgizipKBIYxdOEAqhgx1cITxybaeX6w5Ao/s1600-h/IMG_5169a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 137px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbRSceuVsKfasw29l1pqUlCf5Bk9jXXolU7MnqxoHXCZhdhd-hS5BQApu3WT0cV-OJklj5k2KRlUtJHyqkzRGTDByUIlGu9uUj2BLWO2imBWgizipKBIYxdOEAqhgx1cITxybaeX6w5Ao/s400/IMG_5169a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388436797807467842" /></a><br /><br />The first hours of the morning were filled with seagulls and surfers. How beautiful it must be to live your whole childhood close to the sea....free, free, free. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFAFHYBUhtQpHAv6-HNz6Dw4FGk19cag448WFZO-3G7rHy73PqCQ8LK1m4uQrdJiscqXIMRUPJ4UoQIFQ7aTXTaYW2czOO1m8glFeSZpxC7jzOWQfmNOzLD5zk6vYrQYmN0Ee4JK3GGY/s1600-h/IMG_5100a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFAFHYBUhtQpHAv6-HNz6Dw4FGk19cag448WFZO-3G7rHy73PqCQ8LK1m4uQrdJiscqXIMRUPJ4UoQIFQ7aTXTaYW2czOO1m8glFeSZpxC7jzOWQfmNOzLD5zk6vYrQYmN0Ee4JK3GGY/s400/IMG_5100a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388436781618029666" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixQ7SoAUvwOKsb1dSsg6OB0gXKZCiXtXEjHprLOuvwGHPWFKtH_WhZ3Ux-RAE5bD-DY6tofvtleMNTbkwqvm5HcvR0MKXRaQ6eOxj3b6GZPAJNH2nok7PKUaMIHnJAO1z0ZqGm9Zjz75c/s1600-h/IMG_5185a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixQ7SoAUvwOKsb1dSsg6OB0gXKZCiXtXEjHprLOuvwGHPWFKtH_WhZ3Ux-RAE5bD-DY6tofvtleMNTbkwqvm5HcvR0MKXRaQ6eOxj3b6GZPAJNH2nok7PKUaMIHnJAO1z0ZqGm9Zjz75c/s400/IMG_5185a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388438172670079394" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ydnOIxknMNKLSxzgziiJ_ArUJEC3muGzvDuuyBlm3bR_AYnFI5SiJwS5bXSQBqSUJOQVSdWx9Jr9tOkIIrdzpU_HDRG2R7NJe2Y6xnDJe5pLT54x2S3Sy8CdY1GxlBznvWWY-6GQuq0/s1600-h/IMG_5182a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ydnOIxknMNKLSxzgziiJ_ArUJEC3muGzvDuuyBlm3bR_AYnFI5SiJwS5bXSQBqSUJOQVSdWx9Jr9tOkIIrdzpU_HDRG2R7NJe2Y6xnDJe5pLT54x2S3Sy8CdY1GxlBznvWWY-6GQuq0/s400/IMG_5182a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388438165081934210" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhL700JDwSE_KQzZwKq9sGBZXYA0EF3Ho94ZOoJBdiipFA6brxqmC_M78Qu-sauJdN7zGN3EQ78WVALgcT9lyHPNHM0FM8sGpPRtzcT71OuT3NFfqom6uAWAb3Iuc2Z1k9_Q84ymLyqc/s1600-h/IMG_5199a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhL700JDwSE_KQzZwKq9sGBZXYA0EF3Ho94ZOoJBdiipFA6brxqmC_M78Qu-sauJdN7zGN3EQ78WVALgcT9lyHPNHM0FM8sGpPRtzcT71OuT3NFfqom6uAWAb3Iuc2Z1k9_Q84ymLyqc/s400/IMG_5199a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388441926821711266" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglReDXLMSaTj9fDOeeFuv-Na7eJDsVabq1fIyN-UQ8OIza_gnudunO1NtDYIW9AxVgPj1jUvKIHNq5D0CMaIQCroW_0XFWP4wEmAkoAnEekoWohl_hpLDzIfzxQUc58MVAT6DmI9DS_RU/s1600-h/IMG_5078a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglReDXLMSaTj9fDOeeFuv-Na7eJDsVabq1fIyN-UQ8OIza_gnudunO1NtDYIW9AxVgPj1jUvKIHNq5D0CMaIQCroW_0XFWP4wEmAkoAnEekoWohl_hpLDzIfzxQUc58MVAT6DmI9DS_RU/s400/IMG_5078a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388442438069716322" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-81209948975187452802009-09-28T12:51:00.001-07:002009-10-01T13:06:28.934-07:00Day WDuring the day I am going through my "Portuguese language" phase-this means that I try to capture as many words as I can from people's conversations in the street and then I get all excited that I understood everything-but well, usually what I hear are tiny fragments of sentences, like "estás a brincar" , or "eu lá fui" ... :-))<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtzN6PSgwZdX0k7DcDV7y-Ds5lHseOp5qUHA7jF2qoyNkge6g66CW6AQp3GzsaMomWzB3ed1NT36HQohaONaG5ve5IzWU829Nyzm6mgOPWKQCS6BPzWm7O8Myew9NVjMegheuCgQujr1E/s1600-h/panoramic.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 107px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtzN6PSgwZdX0k7DcDV7y-Ds5lHseOp5qUHA7jF2qoyNkge6g66CW6AQp3GzsaMomWzB3ed1NT36HQohaONaG5ve5IzWU829Nyzm6mgOPWKQCS6BPzWm7O8Myew9NVjMegheuCgQujr1E/s400/panoramic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387724990983932962" /></a><br /><br />During the evening I get all nostalgic and start longing for Lisbon and the Portuguese amazing beaches. Then is where I take my dear Lolita and head together to Praia da Torre in Oeiras-there is a "right side" beach and a "left side" beach-now I like the "left side" one....and I go there and walk bare foot in the fine and silky sand and remember Sting's song that goes like this "sister moooon...." and I promise to come back and take pictures during the night ....<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/K0Wc_hV8pVg&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/K0Wc_hV8pVg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Good night! <br /><br /><br />PS: I don't like counting the days anymore so I will name them as they come up into my head.My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-4453487076306309192009-09-27T06:25:00.001-07:002009-09-28T13:07:25.568-07:00Day Four<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh66nRtQR6VYQoKlPetdidZ14WVhETD4g62oI1M0ALJcGKI_iaPs6vXeJRK1bYyOfOPjECOE2vXgQRfpC-llVqTA3VR2hYL_adr_ay0V6PTsLVyqtaoBNysZZy0yjrm9D68QKhp_808WyM/s1600-h/IMG_4950a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh66nRtQR6VYQoKlPetdidZ14WVhETD4g62oI1M0ALJcGKI_iaPs6vXeJRK1bYyOfOPjECOE2vXgQRfpC-llVqTA3VR2hYL_adr_ay0V6PTsLVyqtaoBNysZZy0yjrm9D68QKhp_808WyM/s400/IMG_4950a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386612137602215570" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrg2KinBdg5Bvcpp07Z9w5vaUod1hyphenhyphenbnZkTQl0eEHMJl89cBZ8jkUhoRmHADh2CzcXhIFUGDPxjuGP3Cfpu_khgJ0RYgCrqrmYGAH9bQkpgxF_TBmbf74PKKOvADBUOcjrjOB-tsc3HYo/s1600-h/IMG_4955a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrg2KinBdg5Bvcpp07Z9w5vaUod1hyphenhyphenbnZkTQl0eEHMJl89cBZ8jkUhoRmHADh2CzcXhIFUGDPxjuGP3Cfpu_khgJ0RYgCrqrmYGAH9bQkpgxF_TBmbf74PKKOvADBUOcjrjOB-tsc3HYo/s400/IMG_4955a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386612124413927634" /></a><br /><br />Sometimes I just like walking in the street with nothing else in my pocket but my cell phone and my keys. Saturday I went to see the lovely shops on Rua de São Bento like this -all these antiquities shops, all these old windowpanes and nice people greeting you and welcoming you inside. This year the "noites de São Bento" was far from being spectacular-I guess the financial crisis reached this street also. I received though two lovely roses-a white and a yellow one and walked around trying to spot the opened shops from looking at the blue carpets laid in front of the entrance. I know this was the last night of the event but I didn't expect not to find any kind of food :-) - no sweets, no sandwiches, no presents....nothing....but a nice feeling though, a peaceful music and happy faces. Monica happy too. No pictures though.....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5pxbGmnUrifSeaLaMQ0_fqmnQexpw2j5IGe92FccxBeHhHzhY3xdgo5-yTrod_9g9r8rrqkJlC85vzmbjw6UUvyNNqPJXcCsOaOw56VmBn15rbzav6zkp_rdPT6rHTOUlvEmlfJMKdrY/s1600-h/IMG_4931a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5pxbGmnUrifSeaLaMQ0_fqmnQexpw2j5IGe92FccxBeHhHzhY3xdgo5-yTrod_9g9r8rrqkJlC85vzmbjw6UUvyNNqPJXcCsOaOw56VmBn15rbzav6zkp_rdPT6rHTOUlvEmlfJMKdrY/s400/IMG_4931a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386606812688715122" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEVusN12ypXvY9Ku6BYrZpM751SSoL51JF0PPNDfQmSEg4L3P-JZRBEugfMamh3Bkd1CwAcpdAfD6dp56xCeS7V2DCedP7om4u0h0eOukZQbK2PZNQ-Cl9WHTVAJTAnJdt1CyM2ULXQTU/s1600-h/IMG_4943a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEVusN12ypXvY9Ku6BYrZpM751SSoL51JF0PPNDfQmSEg4L3P-JZRBEugfMamh3Bkd1CwAcpdAfD6dp56xCeS7V2DCedP7om4u0h0eOukZQbK2PZNQ-Cl9WHTVAJTAnJdt1CyM2ULXQTU/s400/IMG_4943a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386606801059894850" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_KTA4rANjldiWelaNg8KfntA8hlbWL8RxqQSoK5wozmUWpvhmCrixk8jl8HgqbLLSCPLnH1c14urCbDoLhWeZY_9AULUAyM8WCxTPE6KW3Y7IxrQggJOijlfM5RVj1ccaB_OlMFgqOc/s1600-h/IMG_4947a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_KTA4rANjldiWelaNg8KfntA8hlbWL8RxqQSoK5wozmUWpvhmCrixk8jl8HgqbLLSCPLnH1c14urCbDoLhWeZY_9AULUAyM8WCxTPE6KW3Y7IxrQggJOijlfM5RVj1ccaB_OlMFgqOc/s400/IMG_4947a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386606792613421794" /></a><br />Today, though, I went to see my dear Estrela-you know that when I am away I miss her, like I miss Graça and many, many other places. I use to call her in Romanian "little star" which sounds very sweet in my mind....and so I went today to take another look at her and say hello. I like escaping from my world of worries and this always works with me-I get out and feel soooo free that I keep wondering how am I able to squeeze into a system, any system. I have no idea where this craving for freedom comes from, if it is good or bad, normal or absurd but I like that every time I am in the middle of the nature I feel free and able to do anything. I took my books to read and gazed at the trees around the garden, the flowers, the birds. Of course I couldn't help myself not to get on my knees again and take some pictures of these lovely flowers. I've heard that they are poisonous, but so beautiful. This was a white day.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEyys-VcBW0CpUO3NRmCd85pF6bXnx6FRM4Z80_gs7ME9TDRpmhLYaIOZDmn_JJZo611KXc2C9phbFwVQ-3lzXsjA_0cVH1t-hgOTsjTpwNrPioIRt2aRIh98tt19OFA4eLDsGcnvnKaA/s1600-h/IMG_4965a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEyys-VcBW0CpUO3NRmCd85pF6bXnx6FRM4Z80_gs7ME9TDRpmhLYaIOZDmn_JJZo611KXc2C9phbFwVQ-3lzXsjA_0cVH1t-hgOTsjTpwNrPioIRt2aRIh98tt19OFA4eLDsGcnvnKaA/s400/IMG_4965a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386606061400580626" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQWrbT52g_yCEe9DiTCIpOUfVJzLd58HSjSSLZcUPXY3SDKKiKNQjhpja5HaZZs6WaPBkQzLKBShGXsUaGeW7x-ckdKnsSNL1vCkwd8pnysjI5eQMZXzyzs4_ucPeoG3DVJVuBIt-6CM/s1600-h/IMG_4972a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQWrbT52g_yCEe9DiTCIpOUfVJzLd58HSjSSLZcUPXY3SDKKiKNQjhpja5HaZZs6WaPBkQzLKBShGXsUaGeW7x-ckdKnsSNL1vCkwd8pnysjI5eQMZXzyzs4_ucPeoG3DVJVuBIt-6CM/s400/IMG_4972a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386606042301935618" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnU-_ffxm2EubHlmh1seksQqNEwG68GWqWvaN0RMFH01jm1gOkGQIV4A-3MJs8m454URnA12Ny090sqEppu-pi0LBhR9RpiikD0tCyAYYr_g2p8srHz6X3IDnEquAdkxHAj20Vu77N-UQ/s1600-h/IMG_4971a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnU-_ffxm2EubHlmh1seksQqNEwG68GWqWvaN0RMFH01jm1gOkGQIV4A-3MJs8m454URnA12Ny090sqEppu-pi0LBhR9RpiikD0tCyAYYr_g2p8srHz6X3IDnEquAdkxHAj20Vu77N-UQ/s400/IMG_4971a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386606048451036178" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-50122972087167508582009-09-26T14:13:00.002-07:002009-09-27T06:25:31.301-07:00Day Three<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvF3fPcEpeF4OB_vNVi_-Db59DnnHwguMil_tNWllRBuL2xaMx9XEVOe8qNShGx-QTzF45Ro917-mTdAmpvAXMqxZPN6QUGbxo7rkj0dX0BRut2ICwXu678mxHBenrVHM5El59TzF5wM/s1600-h/IMG_4905a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvF3fPcEpeF4OB_vNVi_-Db59DnnHwguMil_tNWllRBuL2xaMx9XEVOe8qNShGx-QTzF45Ro917-mTdAmpvAXMqxZPN6QUGbxo7rkj0dX0BRut2ICwXu678mxHBenrVHM5El59TzF5wM/s400/IMG_4905a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386132210548958402" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmgbezYzr6cJBx8jeMLI1idGCsGC2avEtRRYVO1reD0lHJZIhJJ9kZxCD0FXr6SvURmHwQMtJRid1q7N5H4ZBFWHD2mhzWv3Tgh5fj0VbkZh13RpP1X8_bvNQ69_LNXKWYnI5yp6Dbz8w/s1600-h/IMG_4866a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmgbezYzr6cJBx8jeMLI1idGCsGC2avEtRRYVO1reD0lHJZIhJJ9kZxCD0FXr6SvURmHwQMtJRid1q7N5H4ZBFWHD2mhzWv3Tgh5fj0VbkZh13RpP1X8_bvNQ69_LNXKWYnI5yp6Dbz8w/s400/IMG_4866a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386133589913318066" /></a><br /><br />It was a Tuesday (or Monday??) - the day I went to see Valentina (my dentist)-who is a sweet heart and a great dentist-so if you need a good one in Lisbon, just let me know :-)) After saying good-bye to her and hoping to meet again soon, I decided to go to Barreiro-Barreiro is a small town on the other side of the Tejo river. I wanted to make this trip for a long time-it is cheap also but I kept postponing doing it. I love crossing Tejo, it brings back nice memories into my mind, it makes me feel free and careless and I love admiring Lisbon from afar. This time it was sunset, pretty crowded ferry. I went there and then got back with the same ferry. This is when I discovered I was almost alone in the boat, I climbed up the stairs and went to the top floor, took my red shoes off, opened the window, climbed up the chair and got my arms and head outside the window. You can't imagine how it is like to look at the beautiful sunset and feel the fresh air on your face. Pure bliss again. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxNvSC6cQeradFrPcaCCl6rCKri9ff8Fkso9TnxeIlhpy78PEg7UdoSsBXG80VguTuB5GuoQYfMUSkx6VKOcYlUmqEVQ-K2cJGe8bEw3Pt85kP5hnqR036Sqi65oD62rjiOJQb-NSGPBs/s1600-h/IMG_4865a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxNvSC6cQeradFrPcaCCl6rCKri9ff8Fkso9TnxeIlhpy78PEg7UdoSsBXG80VguTuB5GuoQYfMUSkx6VKOcYlUmqEVQ-K2cJGe8bEw3Pt85kP5hnqR036Sqi65oD62rjiOJQb-NSGPBs/s400/IMG_4865a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386133587167532354" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCbtWiWhxlBc5YhzqAcGWq7NCwDM5PZOzI8GdNRHOy4wBeX6Lv4KhP7vjdw6TOxplTxoad0_BfVYauMbKzleBNA18G6SbrVNmSZe0vrTdjZfpBRzouOBNUYUoE5dhosJ0-YmC3EJD_xhA/s1600-h/IMG_4917a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCbtWiWhxlBc5YhzqAcGWq7NCwDM5PZOzI8GdNRHOy4wBeX6Lv4KhP7vjdw6TOxplTxoad0_BfVYauMbKzleBNA18G6SbrVNmSZe0vrTdjZfpBRzouOBNUYUoE5dhosJ0-YmC3EJD_xhA/s400/IMG_4917a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386132231643369906" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-31845241655098252962009-09-26T14:13:00.001-07:002009-09-27T06:17:00.661-07:00Day Two<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOsDA9mSQnGrUsPiMoyNypRj2dk0MT3FQipVcOzJ9Wq2c5vG8G4_RZkhE-VZOM1lnIejy_S1P24g0ritgTkxFfOr7UVVK5eAmwt8z4m8Kfzu5QJR6LLugffF3_AmgAwwZo8kZa6Y07U_c/s1600-h/IMG_4727a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOsDA9mSQnGrUsPiMoyNypRj2dk0MT3FQipVcOzJ9Wq2c5vG8G4_RZkhE-VZOM1lnIejy_S1P24g0ritgTkxFfOr7UVVK5eAmwt8z4m8Kfzu5QJR6LLugffF3_AmgAwwZo8kZa6Y07U_c/s400/IMG_4727a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386057373868656194" /></a><br />One sunny lovely Sunday morning I went again to the Museum of Antique Art - this time to see a temporary exhibition about the Portuguese discoveries-very nice but sooooooooo many people that it made me scream almost. But just when I was thinking that I knew everything about Lisbon and that she could not surprise me anymore, I discovered this-the lovely garden of the museum with this magnificent view - I took a chair and enjoyed the rays of Sun on my face and thanked Lisbon again for what has offered me and keeps doing this all the time. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKv-sL4czEKyDRAtG9qm8IwrUa3EUia3tt_-66-yycrGE5UALadjUMJoNSRSwCm8g5D4qMe8GWKqNNkaiHgNN-ntYGDhQynf3H2APdSv2_awB7mNDtbpFrBoyIowhXm5XCHekmnGZ0RLU/s1600-h/IMG_4744a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKv-sL4czEKyDRAtG9qm8IwrUa3EUia3tt_-66-yycrGE5UALadjUMJoNSRSwCm8g5D4qMe8GWKqNNkaiHgNN-ntYGDhQynf3H2APdSv2_awB7mNDtbpFrBoyIowhXm5XCHekmnGZ0RLU/s400/IMG_4744a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386057400682634674" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMngIZhjNG4grUUOFfOC7LU9kYwx0awu-cBQjSleZQzvzoAGJnXTqKC9HtYcxZWCd9OFvICr830OLf8EiYaz6mJMNWIr_wR4cvx2lYvWdzhayEqzcfzqvTbcnDNvjGrTVQTL_rIfLsPnA/s1600-h/IMG_4730a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMngIZhjNG4grUUOFfOC7LU9kYwx0awu-cBQjSleZQzvzoAGJnXTqKC9HtYcxZWCd9OFvICr830OLf8EiYaz6mJMNWIr_wR4cvx2lYvWdzhayEqzcfzqvTbcnDNvjGrTVQTL_rIfLsPnA/s400/IMG_4730a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386057393259973650" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwMHhjvFmJQF50Wlvv25KaXrkcBu7Q_P9mseDZ8hmx0dlkeJj5pCr7Dl8p-3M8t8M7mlvidbh-7agsdR8awttNXe9s7Vkz73rk5CeHV3afA07ioTyy9HdldI29VDHdcnFLaxog3R99tzc/s1600-h/IMG_4796aa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwMHhjvFmJQF50Wlvv25KaXrkcBu7Q_P9mseDZ8hmx0dlkeJj5pCr7Dl8p-3M8t8M7mlvidbh-7agsdR8awttNXe9s7Vkz73rk5CeHV3afA07ioTyy9HdldI29VDHdcnFLaxog3R99tzc/s400/IMG_4796aa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386058069974184850" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8Sf_gtmUXKxWx2-UI9K5s2b2-EV1H3GizrciUCBjkb042HtvTI5cO3X-SE4wk6rrjRUQZ_Uufsqysn-Un4pVBkoU2DeiNRqLNtQW3CFaP9aG4IMLjnxaPvKYPFxItG7R0aUou1sbf24/s1600-h/IMG_4762a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8Sf_gtmUXKxWx2-UI9K5s2b2-EV1H3GizrciUCBjkb042HtvTI5cO3X-SE4wk6rrjRUQZ_Uufsqysn-Un4pVBkoU2DeiNRqLNtQW3CFaP9aG4IMLjnxaPvKYPFxItG7R0aUou1sbf24/s400/IMG_4762a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386058068522493442" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zFWz6NzBcOiCOPMHkJNyfLIFPflSj3BkdSugLb89-KpqlHz4Za67wJD0dWzTXa1o-dtDBQh2T1M9U6tMuRF2qZYlPRNWpN2QVZW42ZIZy3K_XfXIIace9_jsMGzcnMDYzMFZrKofP74/s1600-h/IMG_4758aaa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 373px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zFWz6NzBcOiCOPMHkJNyfLIFPflSj3BkdSugLb89-KpqlHz4Za67wJD0dWzTXa1o-dtDBQh2T1M9U6tMuRF2qZYlPRNWpN2QVZW42ZIZy3K_XfXIIace9_jsMGzcnMDYzMFZrKofP74/s400/IMG_4758aaa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386060519862288338" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTA7dHn_VzkOwllPKMfmskL-4H4yvzfIkwbuUbsTXsihx_ayIUqEqw5gsTlxRBS44XcdH__W1bDJoJM32naG5t3uOIw4DO2tm59Tkck_zkhWvWB1t_fhL6WaIL_cFVvqG_zyqPZ5_-VJw/s1600-h/IMG_4751aaa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTA7dHn_VzkOwllPKMfmskL-4H4yvzfIkwbuUbsTXsihx_ayIUqEqw5gsTlxRBS44XcdH__W1bDJoJM32naG5t3uOIw4DO2tm59Tkck_zkhWvWB1t_fhL6WaIL_cFVvqG_zyqPZ5_-VJw/s400/IMG_4751aaa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386060525755540242" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587929009375314812.post-5988066764228462212009-09-20T12:11:00.001-07:002009-09-29T06:07:33.584-07:00Day one<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUzkIVq28-zRYnq7b2I1sj6uSM97lCnlHJo06G-k2UZkIVKGyM7BUBVzOrCRz6x28zW-u7p1e51qk3nKvFTLsQcuooTB54n1tVUvRVmKcYL66iPAJim9CR2BDoxli4dEMiKfPN_Wd_DPs/s1600-h/f.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUzkIVq28-zRYnq7b2I1sj6uSM97lCnlHJo06G-k2UZkIVKGyM7BUBVzOrCRz6x28zW-u7p1e51qk3nKvFTLsQcuooTB54n1tVUvRVmKcYL66iPAJim9CR2BDoxli4dEMiKfPN_Wd_DPs/s400/f.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385893195359031554" /></a><br />I had to find my way to say good-bye to Lisbon-because I didn't really know how this should be done-should I take a picture of each corner and every little stone? Should I walk around saying thank you? Should I just let the pure air and lovely colors invade and embrace my sight and body? So, I started a ritual. My good-bye ritual in which to be honest I don't really believe because I know that I will be back here somehow and my mind and soul refuse to think that the love-hate relationship I have developed with this place can just vanish into the Universe. I know that Lisbon managed to squeeze herself deep into my soul, to charm me slowly and stay there for good. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPPPcg11MCEgPoBZKcXUopWGdodwamX7y62g4wOB560M5mZKEVdzQRoE9_wQvHLGL067waCpLyIw5VnV1ZfRmra_cXJRqvHtZ1EwUnHaw_6fhYn89NFSpS2DlgsZaJ685gzaeWFoyINI/s1600-h/35.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPPPcg11MCEgPoBZKcXUopWGdodwamX7y62g4wOB560M5mZKEVdzQRoE9_wQvHLGL067waCpLyIw5VnV1ZfRmra_cXJRqvHtZ1EwUnHaw_6fhYn89NFSpS2DlgsZaJ685gzaeWFoyINI/s400/35.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385891896376107042" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2bd5u7cvxAjl_k6XwpJhnJbXoFZ-Rsc9QcgkieRlkaU3B7Y0y_FvBcJkfVlu38vMhIFoS6nfMXKVF9XKmCKXW-HD0DskKMPjNqEv7dfWNkSYsBIp6nXXT4utgA8t99BX5OIlvS0s-f4A/s1600-h/34.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2bd5u7cvxAjl_k6XwpJhnJbXoFZ-Rsc9QcgkieRlkaU3B7Y0y_FvBcJkfVlu38vMhIFoS6nfMXKVF9XKmCKXW-HD0DskKMPjNqEv7dfWNkSYsBIp6nXXT4utgA8t99BX5OIlvS0s-f4A/s400/34.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385891888152917906" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjczdp5lTB20HjLljg5BMc99vyevlnfvW3oOe5rq_gXlqHF8al9NRR5St8nHZL2flhqV_7lDgcePvza2qJdgJdO44ACvEPpnnV41VvrRrP0kNJfdfQBkDAebzDG3rUnP65qfG9hA7ar6nk/s1600-h/24.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjczdp5lTB20HjLljg5BMc99vyevlnfvW3oOe5rq_gXlqHF8al9NRR5St8nHZL2flhqV_7lDgcePvza2qJdgJdO44ACvEPpnnV41VvrRrP0kNJfdfQBkDAebzDG3rUnP65qfG9hA7ar6nk/s400/24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383642803090834578" /></a><br /><br />Today was the day I went to Alfama and Graça, I tried to pretend that I was a tourist even though I don't feel like one anymore. I jumped into tram 28 and managed to get a window seat and then started to listen silently to the explanations of a young Portuguese girl who was the guide of a foreigner. She was talking in English and I was wondering-hey, but I could do that easily as I know sooo much about this place. I walked around, found out from a Romanian painter (street artist) that the painters in Rua Augusta have disappeared because the mayor decided so-I was very upset to find that out :-(( and then I went to Sé (the Cathedral). Sé has an amazing "religious piece" made out of gold -17kg-and adorned with more than 4000 precious stones-amazing-they say that it is the most valuable in the whole world......<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMx_H0syQccobW4Xr9s4pbLflFdY3xpgOP0uCnv68d_m66qq4sA6vQFoWbiABLExxDlkhhnZsOBhenqfKUwE3qV_WGO1_VtHJaga_KUAJp6Wkwt4yp3sSjA9VSlFW9gtQW9Lyb682nVE/s1600-h/aur.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 236px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMx_H0syQccobW4Xr9s4pbLflFdY3xpgOP0uCnv68d_m66qq4sA6vQFoWbiABLExxDlkhhnZsOBhenqfKUwE3qV_WGO1_VtHJaga_KUAJp6Wkwt4yp3sSjA9VSlFW9gtQW9Lyb682nVE/s400/aur.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385893170893979538" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvImp4NaRWs4iyInyVlVwURRcmkBfqLS_ky6MCcVE1HxFaRhzusXCSLBXKLuVrUFTqecmJVR1f2yJ9GLSXYwHJnQ8rktjwVG_mooqRWLiuaECjIN0nB7OZZAYKpVCzRziOngG4NaDJi_k/s1600-h/58.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvImp4NaRWs4iyInyVlVwURRcmkBfqLS_ky6MCcVE1HxFaRhzusXCSLBXKLuVrUFTqecmJVR1f2yJ9GLSXYwHJnQ8rktjwVG_mooqRWLiuaECjIN0nB7OZZAYKpVCzRziOngG4NaDJi_k/s400/58.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385893159872667986" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoaBOwRxDm9I9TR65Bhwf9JrhbwSlkN-Aqh5X4tmAROYaLsi1ZrvGCgKS9N0GO-Ch_9tHnZ2TBJJnelnKj4t6y5tu-OzAouZ8yPwcwjcxyJjODcyqkhN-6i7VY7HVoiYwIlB2m1oOx5AI/s1600-h/56.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoaBOwRxDm9I9TR65Bhwf9JrhbwSlkN-Aqh5X4tmAROYaLsi1ZrvGCgKS9N0GO-Ch_9tHnZ2TBJJnelnKj4t6y5tu-OzAouZ8yPwcwjcxyJjODcyqkhN-6i7VY7HVoiYwIlB2m1oOx5AI/s400/56.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385891918213084114" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhq-GjRzps8RtMqho2r41Sovw63EvGdBzBVBHo5yDXdfP8qjmqqqghLoZYdTavHHXdC2ogWE5EQxhwRouh7jABE5rEXnAHTcP373qBerZUCpgOrKlyVv8tK6GIFPo1C01r5HqVVFC8_jI/s1600-h/23.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhq-GjRzps8RtMqho2r41Sovw63EvGdBzBVBHo5yDXdfP8qjmqqqghLoZYdTavHHXdC2ogWE5EQxhwRouh7jABE5rEXnAHTcP373qBerZUCpgOrKlyVv8tK6GIFPo1C01r5HqVVFC8_jI/s400/23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383642112897599234" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2g5Vf0-YPj9NaRrTR7j3LGW2lHdAZP1VsPOGz3vsYjXQBOvGdfHtOwZ8VEEhVgW8isTR2Fdui-IzRWL0akhYWxltVpvLzxvfCkp6GQxYmWMwppWOFvo3BnWwZii3g8QdNPcEhml4Y80/s1600-h/22.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 255px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2g5Vf0-YPj9NaRrTR7j3LGW2lHdAZP1VsPOGz3vsYjXQBOvGdfHtOwZ8VEEhVgW8isTR2Fdui-IzRWL0akhYWxltVpvLzxvfCkp6GQxYmWMwppWOFvo3BnWwZii3g8QdNPcEhml4Y80/s400/22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383642106128970114" /></a><br /><br />as you can see, every little corner appeared to my eyes and soul as totally new, filled with beauty and soooo many colors. I love you Lisbon.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWtvwl4B0JHcQeQUQWhuo50kBiIt3C9ByttrF0G_N23GvxLoUlskHm3l09VJ9oLdZkC24JMZ_0mtXbAZGO-3wKJOm8866f_nZs3IX_Mp1n_Bp3NNdzpPQMpp68xDP50x4uC8zsfdRfek/s1600-h/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWtvwl4B0JHcQeQUQWhuo50kBiIt3C9ByttrF0G_N23GvxLoUlskHm3l09VJ9oLdZkC24JMZ_0mtXbAZGO-3wKJOm8866f_nZs3IX_Mp1n_Bp3NNdzpPQMpp68xDP50x4uC8zsfdRfek/s400/19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383642088897485618" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlq-S_-h30O1L3ry5cqeVj_5R9WFTc63oidj_EeV6VOQiDPXWJcKR24sS4nZwMZBrt0krt3IyklTqSvvFG61wC6w02RWg342pA1J5VjJ6RYzn_2_hVJeAEcPYGZyFTbXPidGkPkdFkoGE/s1600-h/18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlq-S_-h30O1L3ry5cqeVj_5R9WFTc63oidj_EeV6VOQiDPXWJcKR24sS4nZwMZBrt0krt3IyklTqSvvFG61wC6w02RWg342pA1J5VjJ6RYzn_2_hVJeAEcPYGZyFTbXPidGkPkdFkoGE/s400/18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383642078471773394" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisNA8usuzbG9FfXFzELCxkuXumGnbAH81jMi0BGnOAbtwAOcRVTdbBdrVD_3NIG7E4TOnnIMytp3AFPyzO6CR52yfthzVQrQ0W2K_rMhi-VeGA5HiO9L-sKuYBJn5LBrzYTEngV1HIxf8/s1600-h/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisNA8usuzbG9FfXFzELCxkuXumGnbAH81jMi0BGnOAbtwAOcRVTdbBdrVD_3NIG7E4TOnnIMytp3AFPyzO6CR52yfthzVQrQ0W2K_rMhi-VeGA5HiO9L-sKuYBJn5LBrzYTEngV1HIxf8/s400/12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383641062666888866" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHiNQfkkTxmA0Tsp0RbtHhB8sbxyiRY7SAqZyvTFs-0gdeDZgFRCC0CVrFLx7s0U5wKrRNqfX4YR2Kj21j1KREoXIiKBtwslVW8Jd2JjeFACSVEWL4Y_tG8q8YqnzalBN4_K16dWLbCo/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHiNQfkkTxmA0Tsp0RbtHhB8sbxyiRY7SAqZyvTFs-0gdeDZgFRCC0CVrFLx7s0U5wKrRNqfX4YR2Kj21j1KREoXIiKBtwslVW8Jd2JjeFACSVEWL4Y_tG8q8YqnzalBN4_K16dWLbCo/s400/6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383639680253874322" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKmrefmCIilKRiah7DJo07ioDOLIu4ajwWWtNgMO1fy6izwIFKUdxczStoFjROwG1YfoW10hKIJxnb81cw84WyX2d_vjFo8ggy2_j5uUhgFduPrF9YxMz7P1b1MXBRdn7KKqF7C6f73c/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKmrefmCIilKRiah7DJo07ioDOLIu4ajwWWtNgMO1fy6izwIFKUdxczStoFjROwG1YfoW10hKIJxnb81cw84WyX2d_vjFo8ggy2_j5uUhgFduPrF9YxMz7P1b1MXBRdn7KKqF7C6f73c/s400/1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383639648901594578" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVtEbZU1lAJSI_ztPRhhnEGdsuurKLLU2Cy9hUqdMpQPK_1x_9g7qiwYtLUXgyqxN-2gwrm5w1I5puYhGMmlfmHcVf2hbmMRHy0otSO19VKJ6T1uUGeKoxuO9_ZoSv0HNWrMMUTYbeVh0/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVtEbZU1lAJSI_ztPRhhnEGdsuurKLLU2Cy9hUqdMpQPK_1x_9g7qiwYtLUXgyqxN-2gwrm5w1I5puYhGMmlfmHcVf2hbmMRHy0otSO19VKJ6T1uUGeKoxuO9_ZoSv0HNWrMMUTYbeVh0/s400/2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383639655139174018" /></a><br /><br />in the evening, some very special friends of mine wanted to surprise me and threw a lovely, tiny, cute party in Cascais, where I enjoyed myself so much :-)) thank you! Lola, Doris, Dan, Philippe and .... Vladimir oh and cute Tam-Tam-the Sagittarius who wanted my attention and I was so mean that almost ignored him. Tam-Tam, you are cute and lovely. Please forgive me. Kiss kiss. My journey continues. Hey, and I'll be back :-)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUJHG7-ZOWHPRm7gATq7Re2VjpVb7Fsf3Use48-3GQM4Czp3Mr5MCp-xRGZJYAkbuUFKhNAXJvzlVTCNB4acpgUf2HTyS5gPFwCuEJ-0blRBngOrTk5cqVvLUvWC0TAi45NkBvUNi-TY/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUJHG7-ZOWHPRm7gATq7Re2VjpVb7Fsf3Use48-3GQM4Czp3Mr5MCp-xRGZJYAkbuUFKhNAXJvzlVTCNB4acpgUf2HTyS5gPFwCuEJ-0blRBngOrTk5cqVvLUvWC0TAi45NkBvUNi-TY/s400/b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385893186211976914" /></a>My dream bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021467988481980735noreply@blogger.com0