I miss maps, old paper maps that you could spread out over the floor to plan your route. That you could fold up to hold on your lap with the section of the map that you were traveling through. I loved looking over them to see all the details they hold - thinking here especially of the British Ordinance Survey maps. Maps that you could stick pins in of places visited and draw out roads traveled.
The Sado estuary.
Another photograph of Cais Palafitico da Carrasqueira, the ramshackle, zigzagging, interlocking piers on wooden stilts, near to Comporta in Portugal. There have been other photographs of the same area here on my website. It’s a very photogenic area.
Barrosinha, Alcácer do Sal.
Images of Design Week in Lisbon.
Some of welcome relief from the hot sun yesterday afternoon in Lisbon.
Checking out the wine.
Monsaraz - one street of maybe two.
At Barrosinha nr, Alcácer do Sal
A hotel lobby greeting.
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Two boys playing cricket just off the Karakoram Highway While traveling the Karakoram Highway through Pakistan I stopped in Passu for three nights. My memory of Passu in July of 1989 was it just being made up of a small collection of houses. Nothing else. One of those was the guest house that I stayed in. This was run by a lovely man who use to be in the Pakistan army.Looking north from Arrábida Natural Park.
Man with goat in the Hunza Valley, Pakistan in 1989
Passing the car ferry heading to Setúbal as we are on the other ferry heading to Comporta. A very small boat with a couple of people fishing from it, sits between us.
Some more paintings from artist Veronika Blyzniuchenko. The stars in the lower left are sponsored by visitors, a percentage of the sponsorship going towards the restoration of the Basilica.
Friday, May 10, 2024
My wife and I were in Lisbon yesterday and met up with an old Portland friend who had been living Portugal for eight years. After lunch she took us to an art exhibition at the Estrela Basilica, by a young Ukrainian artist, Veronika Blizniuchenko. It is not an easily found exhibition, situated as it is in the former convent behind the Basilica. While visiting the Basilica, Bluzniuchenko noticed the convent from its rooftop gallery.We found this very hidden Gelato shop today. What a gem it is. The owner trained in Italy and now makes his own. Delicious. Repeat visit assured.
Highways in the sky.
Over the rooftops.
Taken in Sintra about a week ago. In the grounds of Biester Palace, a gem to visit to escape the crowds.
Late afternoon Lisbon light.
April Photoblogging Challenge, Bonus Day 2: Unputdownable suggested by @jimmitchell
An old church near to Comporta, Portugal.
Keeping an eye on you…or not.
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 30: Hometown suggested by @mattypenny
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 29: Drift suggested by @SimonWoods
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 28: Community suggested by @stupendousman
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 27: Surprise suggested by @Sdevore
Evening in Alentejo.
Listening to the night time concert.
