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

Huh? Caspar David Friedrich , the German romantic painter (1774-1840) (?)  A picture of our garden (?): The garden of Michael Ampersant and ...

 

 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...

Folks, this is the third time inside a week that we are witnessing an extraneous reference to us --- or, more precisely, to Nazaré, our sist...

  ...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 ...

 You haven't heard from us in a while--for various reasons, obviously, such as slosh, long covid, more slosh induced by long covid, plus...

Lunch is prepared in the garden  

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 ...

(Clip by our friend Charlie:) There were raindrops, that's why everybody huddles under the pergola. The evening became very ...

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)

The newly acquired Tesla MODEL Y (one of the first delivered to Europe) in front of the Alcobaça monastery. Lunch at "Meat"...

  ...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... ...