Walking around the market in Estremoz yesterday.
⛈️ Woah! Now it is coming down. We got home just in the nick of time. A meeting canceled, but I prefer to be back home than out on the road in this. Be safe anyone who is out and about.
⛈️ Woah! Now it is coming down. We got home just in the nick of time. A meeting canceled, but I prefer to be back home than out on the road in this. Be safe anyone who is out and about.
A Pilgrimage to Nazaré
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Today I made a pilgrimage to Nazaré, the home in Portugal of big wave surfing, and where the biggest wave ever to be surfed was surfed. Even though I don’t surf, I am surrounded by family and friends who do. I live on Maui where surfers from all over the world come to practice their sport, and just down the road from us is Jaws, the home in Hawaii of big wave surfing.
Next stop America. The view yesterday from Europe’s most westerly point, Cabo da Roca in Portugal.
We found ourselves in Cascais around lunchtime. The restaurants were closed, opening in forty minutes, and it was raining. So we went for a walk, as you do when it’s raining, and found a bookshop. If my stomach hadn’t been rumbling and there wasn’t a destination to reach after lunch, that bookshop would have been a great place to spend a wet afternoon.
Can anyone help me here? These are the opening hours of a nearby restaurant in Portugal. What do the little “a” stand for/mean?
3ª a Sábado: 12h às 15h | 19h às 22h
Domingo e 2ª: Encerrada
This from writer and historian Heather Cox-Richardson,
The nights I post a picture are often harder for me than the nights I write. I am not a visual artist, and so I struggle for way too long over what picture to post and then struggle even longer over how to caption the image I choose.
I can take many photos, but never post them, or take an age to do so, as I fuss over which one to pick and whether it needs to be edited.
🥱 8:30am and I am just getting up. I never do that, this late in the morning, until I have just done so. I was tired...still feel that way. A slow Sunday ahead?
🥱 8:30am and I am just getting up. I never do that, this late in the morning, until I have just done so. I was tired...still feel that way. A slow Sunday ahead?
😮💨 Feeling tired at the far end of a day moving around Lisbon. But getting things done, enjoying ourselves, and meeting with friends
😮💨 Feeling tired at the far end of a day moving around Lisbon. But getting things done, enjoying ourselves, and meeting with friends
Another Micro Meetup in Portugal with @maique, along with my wife, Melissa.
Waiting for a meet up.
🥵 very hot today. Peaking at 35C (95F). We are on the search for cooler temperatures.
Alcácer do Sal by night.
I’ve no idea what was happening in Alcácer do Sal this evening, but some people were enjoying themselves. The drummers and those following, were all dressed in a white uniform.
Finished reading Getting Your Important Work Done by Michael Nobbs. A collection of essays on being sustainably creative, using “whatever energy you have available, however limited it may be, to maintain a creative life (or even livelihood).”
I don’t know when I came across Michael’s work, but I have always appreciated his quiet and gentle advice. 📚
I installed Thwip on my iPhone, and watch, just because…🔈
🧙🏻 A second test of a Drafts action