Primavera #82

Há uma semana, Bristol recebeu-nos em flor!

A week ago, Bristol received us in bloom!

Ditto #355

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

--José Saramago

Palavras lidas #331

The Woodcutter Changes His Mind
by David Budbill

When I was young, I cut the bigger, older trees for firewood, the ones
with heart rot, dead and broken branches, the crippled and deformed

ones, because, I reasoned, they were going to fall soon anyway, and
therefore, I should give the younger trees more light and room to grow.

Now I’m older and I cut the younger, strong and sturdy, solid
and beautiful trees, and I let the older ones have a few more years

of light and water and leaf in the forest they have known so long.
Soon enough they will be prostrate on the ground.

Memórias #50

O carteiro, o carteiro e o seu gato preto e branco...

...o carteiro está sempre contente!

Espantos #497

Bolos de arroz e pastéis de nata

nos serviços de catering de uma conferência em Bristol

Coisas bonitas #9

Navios-museu, desta vez em Bristol

onde o vapor SS Great Britain se encontra em exposição

na doca seca onde foi construído em 1839.

Um dos primeiros navios com casco de ferro,

o SS Great Britain chegou a fazer serviço de passageiros,

carga e transporte de tropas durante o século XIX

sendo depois vendido à companhia das Malvinas onde serviu como

navio cisterna de carvão. Pelo caminho foi convertido em veleiro.

Abandonado em 1930 foi afundado nas Malvinas uma vez que a

dimensão dos estragos impedia a reparação económica do navio.

Já nos anos 70 foi recuperado, trazido para Bristol e aí restaurado,

não mais para navegar, mas para servir de museu.

O bilhete de £14 é válido por um ano!

Caprichos #438

Who says English food sucks?

Special Sunday roast topped with Yorkshire pudding at 

@the Bank Tavern in Bristol

Coisas que não mudam #395

The Pyrenees covered in snow... says wikipedia:

"The amount of precipitation the range receives, including rain and snow, is much greater in the western than in the eastern Pyrenees because of the moist air that blows in from the Atlantic Ocean over the Bay of Biscay. After dropping its moisture over the western and central Pyrenees, the air is left dry over the eastern Pyrenees. (...)

There are some glaciers in the western and snowy central Pyrenees, but there are no glaciers in the eastern Pyrenees because there is insufficient snowfall to cause their development. Glaciers are confined to the northern slopes of the central Pyrenees, and do not descend, like those of the Alps, far down into the valleys but rather have their greatest lengths along the direction of the mountain chain. They form, in fact, in a narrow zone near the crest of the highest mountains."

Numa sala perto de mim #351

Tsukiji Wonderland (2016) is a documentary on the largest wholesale fish market in the world, at the Tsukiji district in Tokyo. It's well known the Japanese take their fish very seriously and in the two hours of this movie you see a lot of fish in all shapes and forms, but the sheer dimension of operations there is worth the note!

Coisas bonitas #8

Porque há dias que se celebram...

que se continuem a celebrar por muitos anos!

Pormenores #138

Waiting for me in Barcelona / À minha espera em Barcelona

a little chick / um pintainho

guarding an easter egg! / guardando um ovo de Páscoa!

Espantos #496

Sunset / pôr-do-sol

Sunrise / nascer do sol

and pink clouds at the first rays of sun

e nuvens cor de rosa aos primeiros raios de sol

Retirado do contexto #229

Magic words of air travel

Caprichos #437

Berries, vanilla ice cream, and microwave warmed brownie

Numa sala perto de mim #350

Kedi (2016) mostra Istanbul como a cidade dos gatos que por lá vivem sem dono ao cuidado de quem lhes dê atenção... com comportamentos muito próprios e não subservientes é de admirar que tantos gatos vivam desta maneira numa cidade de perto de 15 milhões de pessoas.

Ditto #354

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

--Marie Curie

Caprichos #436

Chai @Revelator Coffee Company in Nashville

Primavera #81

One last go at spring in Tennessee

Palavras lidas #330

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
by William Butler Yeats

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Numa sala perto de mim #349

Jackie (2016) shows the moments between JFK's assassination and funeral, from the perspective of his wife. Though covering a short time frame, the movie conveys the intensity of the most tragic event in recent US history, and above all the dignity of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.