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"...

Lava from the active volcano dripping into an irrigation pool on La Palma   

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

 

 ( Our friend Glenn sends this: )

 

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 ( 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... ...

...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...