Friendly sunny Portugal

Guimarães, Braga, Porto and Lisbon


Spring is here.. ever so splendid a seasonal impression, brimming w color and life, beautiful!
Braga, friendly Portugal! 23/04/10.


Spring spirit


Guimaraes spring April 2010: Roses are everywhere in this nice city.. ever so gorgeous, what a richly composed natural impression, brimming w vibrant tones && textures, fantastical!

Wish everyone a wonderful weekend!!! I'm gonna visit Porto tomorrow! :-)
Guimaraes 30/04/10.

Porto: weekend traveling, joyful 1st of May festival :-)


Shining Porto - late afternoon

Joyful weekend traveling. There was 1st of May festival in Porto, and nice music was played all around the city, people were dancing, drinking, .. on the streets. What a wonderful experience to feel the lives of the city :-)
Porto 01/05/10 at 7pm.

Beautiful Porto

I enjoyed my stay in Porto. During the 1st of May festival, people were singing and dancing on the streets.. I could feel how alive the city is and how friendly the Portuguese are. It's a wonderful cheerful city with beautiful blue river going to the blue sea.. :x

Sunny Porto - Ponte Dom Luís I, Porto 01/05/10

Porto - View on top of the Torre dos Clérigos

Green Porto :-)

Wish summer bring hope to my 'crazily busy' Master's dissertation.. Porto 01/05/10.

Historical Porto - Charming city with a great medieval flair! :x :-)
The Torre dos Clérigos, Porto 01/05/10.

Lisbon: nice city, lovely cool weather :-). I had a chance to make a weekend trip to the city after the submission of my Master's thesis and before the defense of the thesis.

Lisbon with medieval flair - one of the oldest cities in the world

Lisbon - The Praca do Comercio (Commerce Square)

Lisbon historic tram 16/07/10

Lisbon street restaurant

Sao Bento Triumphal Arch

Elevador de Santa Justa

"The Santa Justa Lift, also called Carmo Lift, is an elevator/lift in civil parish of Santa Justa. Since its construction, the Lift has become a tourist attraction for Lisbon as, among the urban lifts in the city, Santa Justa is the only remaining vertical one. Others, including Elevador da Glória and Elevador da Lavra, are funiculars, and the other Lift constructed around the period, the Elevator of São Julião has since been demolished. The hills of Lisbon have always presented a problem for accessibility,[1] especially in a time when people were required to move on foot or being pulled by horse (or other animal)." ... - more on Wikipedia -

Lisbon - View near the São Jorge Castle

Blue Lisbon - View from the São Jorge Castle

Lisbon windows- there are a large amount of old original historic houses seem not to be renovated

The Padrão dos Descobrimentos and Ponte 25 de Abril

The River Tagus

Lisbon Oriente station

View on the apse of the Carmo Convent
"The mediaeval convent was ruined in the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, and the ruins of its Gothic church (the Carmo Church or Igreja do Carmo) are the main trace of the great earthquake still visible in the city."
Mid-July 2010.



Lisbon - The Carmo Church
"The church interior has a nave with three aisles and an apse with a main chapel and four side chapels. The stone roof over the nave collapsed after the earthquake and was never rebuilt, and only the pointed arches between the pillars have survived."

Only when one is there and see by oneself the ruins of the church, naturally it has a significant impact that one can feel the great-scaled destruction of natural disasters and, to another possible extent of imagination, the vast destruction through time in all aspects of our lives..

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SAHC Master, the 2nd part for a dissertation, Guimarães 01.04 - 27.07.2010.