...as we walk along the Alcoa (our local river) through the city park of Alcobaça, our town.

Lunch is prepared in the garden  

.   And here is what Andrew McGregor has to say about this (scroll down for the lyrics): Musical notes...

  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. ...

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)

Wasn't it prescient, our last post ? Here, the climate change in Verviers, Belgium, on July 16, 2021, where the flooding water stacked c...

...or, to be more specific, a view of the eastern environs of Alcobaça seen through the haze of a very cold, very charming morning, as usual...

  Our garden, as yet untended, on Feb 12, at 11 AM; we are at: 39°32′30.7″ N, 8°58′54.3″ W in Alcobaça, PT The same garden on Feb 15, at 11...

 

 

...of Caldas da Rainha, half an hour to the south of Alcobaça:  

So we went to Porto de Mos, the nearby town that dominates the Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros , where we shot our Christmas ...

We're posting this for our Australian friend, Alex Hogan, the famous editor of Gay Flash Fiction  -- as usual, we spend the summer here...

House is rented, we're back in Switzerland. Picture taken by Chang yesterday afternoon:

A rainy day on the beach of Nazaré (still house-hunting): Picture, as always, by Chang