“Well, if we’d known, we could have brought a chick from the market in Montemor!” one widow answers, and the other nods compassionately, “but you can also give her a bath, and she will cool down. They have a fever, isn’t it, it’s a fever … ” I already thought that the widows knew a […]
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If you’ve done as much with fairy tales as we have, you start looking at it differently. We have immortalized not only the most famous fairy tales or fairy tale themes in mosaic, but also the much less known ones. These are of course much more challenging to capture in mosaic “Yesyes, I’ll go. Don’t
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“Outch! Hey, take care, you! Chickens don’t eat people, didn’t you know that!” In response, she looks at me sharply, her head a little crooked to look up. The chickens consider me a cross between a super chicken with 3 heads and a giant worm. That insight suddenly came to me through the behavior of
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Nine years ago, he was here for the first time. As a volunteer. At that time we were still busy renovating, mosaicing and improving our village, and Sebastiaan certainly participated with enthusiasm! And he photographed everything. It was a nice group of volunteers back then Patricia and Martin, a german couple from Rostock with an
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This is even worse than back then with the football championship. The semifinal was between Portugal and the Netherlands. We sat in a cafe in Costa de Lavos, full of Portuguese people, all of whom were for Portugal. Of course. I don’t have much experience with football It just doesn’t click or something. I usually
Just like the 2004 semifinal football Read More »
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.4.8″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″] There is such a thing as a national character. It’s part of a culture. They are often clichés. The Dutch, for example, are worriers (Note the o!). I always immediately recognize a fellow countryman – off-white
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Abundance in the veggie garden We have a lot of leafy cabbage in the garden. And chard – I don’t even know what it’s called in Dutch nor in Portuguese. Broes gains his knowledge from English sites. Of course the obligatory zucchini, which is very blasé, and is pooping out flower after flower, zucchini after zucchini,
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Romy’s birthday. One of “the girls”. For the happy occasion the girls asked everyone to go to the beach to join a surf class. It’ll be the first surf lesson for everyone, so everyone is thrilled! Figueira da Foz is said to be one of the best places in Europe to surf, so that’s promising
A coming farewell, but first: surfing! Read More »
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Or at home – because son Broes is cooking a lot nowadays! Everything is dragged from the garden into the kitchen – especially a lot of zucchini, of course, because somehow zucchini plants always do well. But the peas, beans, cucumbers, lettuce, pumpkin, corn, bell pepper, basil, dill and thyme also come in nice quantities.
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