Olá, mãe! (Hello, mother!) Greetings from Portugal!
Well, this doesn´t look much like Portugal, hmm? This is last pic we took in Finland in the morning before we left to the airport. It was the first time when the ground was white.
Good time to head for warmer locations!
We came to the airport and get happily trough the security control.. although the security guy was a bit suspicious about my spikes.
We checked when our flight was going to be, it was late almost two hours.
We were running around and watching the planes and all activity going on there.
At last we get into air!
It was great to watch the clouds, and the landscape, like a map, running under us. We flew over Germany and I was wawing to you, mum!
When we came here it was already rather late and dark - we had to change the planes one time and the second flight was late too.
So we went straight to bed.
This pic is from the next morning, showing the first impression of the surroundings, photographed from the balcony.
Then we started our introduction to the local culture by eating local food, like this wonderful melon.
And chicken peas. They grow lot of them here in Portugal.
Not to speak of the wonderful olives!
Njamm njamm!
We went for a walk to the area near by.
The place we are living here is a small town called Almada, in the shore of the river Tejo, just opposite Lisbon.
In the pic is some old houses, the last ones to be demolished to make room for the "Developement".
This is a fig tree.
Couldn´t see any figs, though.
And here behing me is an eucalyptus tree. It smelled wonderfully.
We have not seen yet much of Lisbon, because Henna has been sitting in a library like a mole, but we´ve had some glimpses of it, and today we are going to see more!
This is a streetview from central Lisbon.
Here we are doing some window shopping. The chestnuts looked like little hedgehogs to me.
Here we are drooling.
And here is the Lisbon town hall.
Now we are going to invade Lisbon!
See you again, mum! I´ll try to learn some portuguese numbers soon.
Your Melek