...well, not quite, but he does what he rarely does, he reproduces an entire piece from the NYT (last time he did that it was with a column ...

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

     ... 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

 

 

 

(Pictures by Chang Man Yoon)

This surf figures in the Guinness Book of records, but it is rare (happening twice per year perhaps) and very local (just at the tip of th...

The entrance with two newly acquired geranium pots Fleas on the newly acquired bougainvilliids Sheep on Michael's morning walk The livin...

 ...not acres, in fact, but the grass-floor of the pergola is indeed artificial. The swing--which we called Hollywood-swing in previous edit...

It took a little while, because Michael got sick in the meantime, but here we are: this is the living room as of May 17, 2021:  Any progres...

 

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  Art by William Wray

(We post this for our friend Sacha; you need to switch on the sound:)    https://internclarabelle.tumblr.com/post/643287403672...

 

(1) Twitter didn't even exist when Monica Lewinsky was comforting Bill Clinton in the off-room of the Oval Office; (2) That was 2...

We once assured you that there would never do a dog-or-cat post on this blog. Well, there you have it (the third one is the best):

 Pictorial warning: this is not an exciting picture, but... ...it answers a question that expats living in the Alcobaça area are...