Since Lisbon is the city of seven hills, they were quite busy to make it as comfortable as possible for its inhabitants to get up and down of them. Unfortunately, there is non straight to my place, which means, by the end of my stay I will have really compact

Even here in Portugal you find the rare occasion of people protesting. I wonder what all the fuss is about. 

Na semana passada eu e a minha mãe fomos ao Palácio de Monserrate. Foi construído em 1540. Muitas pessoas importantes tinham vivido lá. A família Cookrestaurou-o, depois de anos de abandono de Palácio  Em 1793 William Beckford, um novelista inglês, renovou o e alugou o jardim. Sir Francis Cook, estendeu o

Estoril, Catamaran sailing My tandem partner Tânia

It had been my first visit of Sintra as a village. It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. In the surrounding hills are a couple of castles and palaces as well as a huge variety of forestial landscape. Perfect for two guys searching for an adventure, for

Coimbra is only a two hour bus ride away from Lisbon. It is a cozy student city, which goes crazy once or twice a year to celebrate “Queima de Fitas”. The pictures have nothing to do with it, they just happened to be taken at the time. I don’t have any pictures

Nicolas and I went for a run along the Rio Tejo It is so easy to make him happy

Nowadays one of Lisbons districts used to be a small fisher village. The proximity to the river made it a perfect place for seafarers to land. I saw a couple of pictures where the waterfront was a lot closer to the monastery on the next picture. But I haven’t figured out, yet, what has

My friend Nicolas was visiting for a couple of days. At the first day we walked around the city for a bit. Actually the whole city. Unfortunately, I didn’t take many pictures. That’s just a couple of impressions.  Marques de Pombal, the guy who rebuild the center part of the

A beautiful Saturday for GeoCaching. For people who don’t know what it is, you basically have some coordinates and some kind of GPS receiving device which allows you to hunt down those points in real live. Sometimes there are hidden treasures, sometimes a really nice location. It is a kind