My blog is a little bit of everything...

Today Autumn started here in Portugal!
Next days I will try to take some photos about that amazing subject!
Last hear this was my album about Autumn! Autumn_album_2007

and this is my Autumn Photo Network APN_2007

I hope you enjoy this nice season!

One of my favourites photos was:


More to come soon...

Adventure at night.
I and some friends we like to ride our bikes at
night.
This is very nice because the only light we can
see are from our bikes or our helmet!

Ride a bike in this condictions it's very funny...

well some times a bit scary...

In that photo you can see our shadows...and
our way to start this adventure...scary...

After we start our adventure, first stop was
100m later… our big shadows made our
first photo!




Our second stop was because we saw lights...

We saw better, and a small animal a Firefly with
green light in his back! We thought bring some
of them in the case we lost our lights!







One more stop to take a picture of a big frog that
we saw in a fontain, but that frog was more fast
that my clic...

One of the funny things was, I start to tell to my
friends some scary stories about ghosts, aliens and
about height people that walk alone for dark places
as that one. After second story no one want be ride
in the front or in the back…



Funny lights!
We took lots of them, this is the best!











Like a family photo, the scared guys...

One more funny thing: it seems that we spend much more
time taken photos and laughing that ride our bikes even
we has made 12km away…

We start with nice sky, lots of stars, without any
clouds, but past some minutes a very strong fog come
to us…that was much more scaryyyyy…



Mestireous places for every where...

We had the idea to turn off our lights, trying to see
in totally darkness and also to see what happen
yes was scared, but past one minute our eyes are seeing
without any light. after we ride a km we turn on our
lights, is more save!

Tomorrow my Opera friend Beatriz will marry

I wish you a happy happy day!

Spend each minute tomorrow with all your love and happyness!

Before say YES don't forget our deal with Yulia, drink a glass of Russia vodka!


For you Becky and for your boy, I wish you the best!

Have a great time in honeymoon!

Dont'n forget to send our postcards!

Every time is a good time for a good icecream even in winter... portuguese winter is very warm and we need to eat lots of icecreams...in winter we can go to swimm at the beach or swimming-pool! the whether is almost great every year!

We have lots of icecream stores for every where!
You can buy a icecream in any place!

I have also a icecream machine, that make delicious icecreams "gelados" as we caled!





One of my favourit, is Haagen-Dazs! Very expensive
but delicious:D:D Often I buy a box and just stop always
in the end...







Olá "brand" has also a great serie of
icecreams, the famous "Maguns" that
almost every one is crazy here!









So I hope you have a great and delicious summer with always a icecream in your hand or hands!

I'll waiting for your opinion about icecreams!

Lisbon Comes Alive, By "The New York Times"

My friend FrogBoots sent me a message telling me
about an article about Lisbon in the periodical





A street artist juggles with fire on the Largo do Chiado in central Lisbon.
By SETH SHERWOOD
Published: July 13, 2008
Well, if you want to read that article, please take a look lisbon-comes-alive

Some interesting to read about Lisbon.
•Art
•Architecture
•Collection Museum
•Gardens
•Fashion
And much more...

Put this city in your travel list! You will like it!

Legend of "Galo de Barcelos"

Versão portuguesa Ao cruzeiro seiscentista que faz parte do espólio do Museu Arqueológico da cidade, anda associada a curiosa lenda do galo. Segundo ela, os habitantes do burgo andavam alarmados com um crime e, mais ainda, por não se ter descoberto o criminoso que o cometera.

Certo dia, apareceu um galego que se tornou suspeito. As autoridades resolveram prendê-lo e, apesar dos seus juramentos de inocência, ninguém o acreditou. Ninguém julgava crível que o galego se dirigisse a S. Tiago de Compostela em cumprimento duma promessa; que fosse fervoroso devoto do santo que em Compostela se venerava, assim como de São Paulo e de Nossa Senhora. Por isso, foi condenado à forca.
Antes de ser enforcado, pediu que o levassem à presença do juiz que o condenara. Concedida a autorização, levaram-no à residência do magistrado, que nesse momento se banqueteava com alguns amigos. O galego voltou a afirmar a sua inocência e, perante a incredulidade dos presentes, apontou para um galo assado que estava sobre a mesa e exclamou:
- É tão certo eu estar inocente, como certo é esse galo cantar quando me enforcarem.
Risos e comentários não se fizeram esperar, mas pelo sim e pelo não, ninguém tocou no galo. O que parecia impossível, tornou-se, porém, realidade! Quando o peregrino estava a ser enforcado, o galo assado ergueu-se na mesa e cantou. Já ninguém duvidava das afirmações de inocência do condenado. O juiz corre à forca e com espanto vê o pobre homem de corda ao pescoço, mas o nó lasso, impedindo o estrangulamento. Imediatamente solto, foi mandado em paz.
Passados anos, voltou a Barcelos e fez erguer o monumento em louvor à Virgem e a São Tiago.


A murder had been committed in the Portuguese town of Barcelos. Who was the criminal? Some stated that on the day of the crime, a Galician was passing through Barcelos on a pilgrimage and various circumstances pointed to his guilt.
The Spaniard declared his innocence but he could present no proof.
He was arrested and then condemned to be hanged. The poor man continued to plead his innocence to no avail. As a last request he asked to be brought before the judge again. The judge was dining with some friends and before them all the man again declared his innocence. "There is nothing I can do" replied the judge.
There was a roasted chicken in the table.
The Spaniard, seeing himself abandoned by man, turned to the Saints of his faith. He cried: "As surely as I stand innocent, so will that rooster crow! " Everyone laughed. The feast continued and the man was taken back to prison, but the judge decided that the Rooster would not touched. Evening fell and the words of the man still rang in their ears.
By the time the man was to be hanged, the judge was in his house. Suddenly, to the amazement of everybody, the roasted rooster transformed and...... crowed!
The judge and several other man rushed to prevent the Spaniard from being hanged, and they arrived just in time.
The man was released and left the town.
It is said that, years later, the man returned to Barcelos and erected a small monument that can still be seen today, as a way to thank the Saints that had helped him.
The "Galo de Barcelos", seen in the above picture, became a symbol to the town of Barcelos and is nowadays considered to be one of the typical symbols of Portugal.
Barcelos is a city about 30 Kilometers from Braga.