The last beaches and the art of living in Lisbon

Here already some visual tapas. Should make you hungry to have a look at the whole www.pilgrimagehome.com

I found her like that …

Praia do Odeceixe – Mar

Beautiful december (1st) weather at 16C 🙂

Before finalising our 4 weeks of reflection, meditation, sun and lazy beaches in Portugal, we enjoyed the last days of warm (22C + 8 hours of sun) Algarve weather before heading to Lissabon.

I found her like that …

Sun and salt on the skin, nothing more …

beautiful rock structures

in meditation

beach only accessible at low tide

… troubled by the retracting sea …

Looking at me at the morning meditation

Praia do Odeceixe – Mar

And finally we arrived in Lissabon : which is known for it’s addiction to street and graffiti art :

enlarge and look at it : great !

… and great matching colours

… and 2 feet ..

And Lisbon is also known for it’s history of azuleios (coloured ceramic tiles), which triggered our fascination for patterns.

Original tiles from Antwerp, imported in Portugal.

Moorish motives (flowers, … the best imaginable for people who use to live in desert landscapes)

… second Azuela technique.

 

… at a certain moment it became a status symbol … to put azuelos on your outside wall, even if it doesn’t rain much and the shower is inside.

… house sitting …

…. our breakfast room at our sleeping place …

in our breakfast room

We finalised our stay with some sightseeing in and around the town.

Madeira, Azores, a lot of East Africa (also Congo), South Africa, a lot of West Africa, India (over the sea). Discovery also meant slavery : the first slavemarket in Europe was around Lisbon. Glorious shame.

Beautiful december (1st) weather at 16C 🙂

Train that covers a few 100 meters to help the oldies to get on the 7 hills of Lisbon.

… probably still from the Apartheid time …

Goose Barnacles, sold as aphrodisiac and the best of the sea. Grows next to black mussels, at places where it is maximally 3 hours in contact with air/day.

… awfull smell that stays on your fingers for a long time ..

Now we are in Israel, for visiting & also because we wanted/loved to dance a workshop with Kate Shela, who moved over from California for this. At Christmas, we will be in Vienna. At new year, we will go for tribal dance with Silvija Tomcik, and afterwards we will make a visit to the Belgian family.