We had a storm during the night, and the atmosphere is still quite unsettled. Moist air blowing in from the sea hits the serra, is pushed up...

  This is the end of our dead-end-road at the end of the day. Picture by Chang, of course.

 Here's the proof, picture taken from a bathroom window:    

 ...to paint our garden? No, it was Chang who took this picture through the kitchen window.  Rain, finally rain. We never get enough of it d...

  ...but this is also a little path, slanting away from a gas station to a zebra crossing. And why does this little path do this? Because a ...

Here's a new, very informative YouTube clip about us: Have fun!  

Lunch is prepared in the garden  

  This afternoon We were on our habitual afternoon walk which gets us downtown and back in an hour. Note the December flowers on the right. ...

We've had a wave alert for the Praia do Norte yesterday, with estimated breakers of 10 meters. The sheep were characteristically unimpre...

Alcobaça holds a weekly market on Saturday. It's in walking distance, so we walked the pitoresco walk to the venue along the Alcoa, the ...

September was a bit rainy, but the summer is back. October is the season for big waves... ...which has started now (the season...

  Note the bamboo on the deck to the left of the gate (click on the pic for enlargement)

  ...at the end of the rainbow.   Our garden a few days ago.

 ( Click on any picture for a slideshow with larger images; it's worth it: ) ...

Michael is posting this especially for Alex (Irene Hogan), the famous editor of GFF , who was wondering how we are doing... ...

     ... was the title of a famous poster by the German Bundesbahn in the winter of 1967, pointing out that their trains would wo...

  On the horizon: the norther tip of the Serras de Aire e Candeeiros