“Oh dear!” I say anxiously after I hobbled from one bed to the other, “Where is my arm?” “Look at that, you found it there,” the nurse says to me with a smile. My left arm is almost lying across my head. Completely numb. Very friendly staff at the hospital in Figueira How did I […]
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“You can’t imagine what goes through me when I’m on my motorbike,” Vera tells me when we say goodbye. “It can’t be explained in words, only in music.” Her motorbike is now tied to a trailer behind the van of a friend. She came from the Netherlands to Portugal on a motorbike Not a small
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There are few things you can do without on your body. Of course you can cut your hair and your nails, that’s no problem. But for the rest it is important that everything stays in place and in good condition. Nice considerations when I was in the dentist’s chair this week. For the infamous root
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I’ll keep it short, dear readers, my fingers are almost falling off. Grouted all day long. That’s what gives you those fingers like sitting in a warm bath for far too long. The new mosaic at the entrance is finished! Thanks to the Ceragni coloured tiles, the mysterious maker of the angel R.Z. from A.
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Last Monday, our english friends took a giant step towards their future dream: their own house in the eastern Alentejo. They had been busy packing their things for weeks, because because they work from home (they are jewelers) everything had to be combined. Packing, working, and leaving everything clean and in good condition. Cleaning is
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It was quite a challenge to get this glued, dear readers! You may not be able to imagine what a challenge it was – especially if you have never mosaiced before. It was a technical transportation challenge, this mosaic That was mainly because we put it – like we often do – on a board.
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In the municipality of Soure I know of three places where you can get rid of your waste. That was accompanied by a substantial european subsidy, and was thought up at the drawing board, but it does work. You can drop off all your waste there Great initiative. Before that, the alternatives were: leave it
The last time I was there, the ground floor was still full of old rusty fridges, and the stairs to the tower were closed because it was too dangerous. A stork had made a nest in the tree growing on the tower. The Monastery of Seiça has been empty for a long time It’s a
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When they announced their arrival, I immediately start to think about: maybe they want to do a mosaic …. Somewhere in the back of my mind, a little plan started, a thing I wanted to do anyway. So nice when mosaic freaks like me come by! Helmy has been coming here for so long that
It’s a party in Soure, but I’m too early. At 10 in the morning it’s not a party yet, everyone is still recovering from the night before. And it looks like it was quite a night! September 19 is the birthday of Saint Matthew The special Saint of Soure. One of Jesus’ friends. Unlike “our
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