🚧 The spam bots appear to be on overdrive for the last couple of days. The amount of junk e-mail dropping in has significantly increased.

🚧 The spam bots appear to be on overdrive for the last couple of days. The amount of junk e-mail dropping in has significantly increased.

🚧 The spam bots appear to be on overdrive for the last couple of days. The amount of junk e-mail dropping in has significantly increased.

πŸ’†β€β™‚οΈ I’ve just had a massage to ease two days of travel out of me. I’m still less than 24 hours home and feel as though I have a leg in two continents.

πŸ’†β€β™‚οΈ I’ve just had a massage to ease two days of travel out of me. I’m still less than 24 hours home and feel as though I have a leg in two continents.

Leaving a Book Before I Finish It

I stopped reading a book recently, and for some reason that process of putting the book down sits very uncomfortably with me. The book had been recommended to me by a friend a number of years back. I purchased it at the time, but ever since it has languished, other titles jumping the queue. I finally picked the book up a month or so ago. I wanted to enjoy the story because it had been recommended to me, but I found the plot rambling, as though it was trying to keep going by padding itself out.

Continue reading β†’

πŸ›¬ Getting there. I’ve not long landed in Honolulu. Waiting for my final flight, to Maui. What time is it?!

πŸ›¬ Getting there. I’ve not long landed in Honolulu. Waiting for my final flight, to Maui. What time is it?!

A few views of the TWA Hotel at JFK early this morning. There are always people walking around taking pictures here. The retro sixties look is so well done.

The sunken lounge. Sunken lounge at TWA Hotel at JFK

The old checkin desks that are now used for hotel checkin. The bag conveyor belt is running behind the desks, though they carry nothing. Old checkin desks now used for hotel checkin

The walk way connecting the hotel to Terminal 5. The walk way connecting the hotel to Terminal 5

Oh jet lag! I guess that I might as well get up? πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈπŸ₯±

Tonight’s layover, TWA Hotel at JFK.

Abstract image of New York City for the TWA Hotel, modeled on the 1960’s

πŸ›Έ Up, up and away.

πŸ›Έ Up, up and away.

I’m starting the flights back home. It’ll take me a couple of days to get there. I’ll miss Portugal. I missed it last time that I left and I’ll miss it this time. See you again soon.

There was a haze of dust from North Africa (sand from the Sahara?) hanging over Lisbon this evening, as I crossed the Vasco da Gama Bridge.

πŸ˜Άβ€πŸŒ«οΈ The morning cloud and mist is burning off. It feels as though it will be a warm afternoon.

πŸ˜Άβ€πŸŒ«οΈ The morning cloud and mist is burning off. It feels as though it will be a warm afternoon.

πŸ₯± It’s tomorrow. I’d better go to bed.

πŸ₯± It’s tomorrow. I’d better go to bed.

Town, boat, night…from the far bank.

Alcacer do Sal at night, taken from the far bank of the River Sado, with a boat in the foreground