Summer of Slow Travel

There are even more tiles in Portugal than Spain. They started making them in 1200. On the way to the Tile Museum we saw: The Museum was in a Covenant.

Went to a suburb of Lisbon today. Has (not very expensive) tickets to go into the Cloister It had just opened so we went into a ( you guessed it) museum for a long while. Line was longer when we came out. But we REALLY liked the museum. There was…

Let’s be honest. There are a lot of visitors in Lisbon. But we have a solution. Go to Museums! Or the Police Museum Fun day!

Decided to head out to the MAAT Museum. click here to learn more I’m loving what artists can do in BIG spaces. Nicolas Floc’h: (gotta wonder how you say his name) Tambor Terra Both were incredible. The brown is tan bark and the artist encouraged us to take off our…

The Castle in Lisbon is just up the hill from our house. Remember we are UP. Yesterday we walked to the grocery store. We got there by entering a building on the 7th floor and riding the elevator DOWN to the grocery store. We went early and it was peaceful…

We are here! I’m very tired so you just get the apartment pictures. We have a view all the way to “the river”— what we would call a bay— out of both sides of the living room. (Which means we are UP a hill, really up a hill…but the Ubers…

We’ve gone back to our park 2 more times. Today there was a police parade. Yesterday we found an huge exhibition hall there. Which James Lee Byars work needed. More pretty pictures of the park.

So tiles 100 years ago, and now, spray paint… Makes wandering the streets really fun!!! Tonight we are seeing Lion King (Ek Rey Lion). Love

One of the fun things here is these store front tiles. Some date back to the 1920’s. It makes walking around an adventure!

Palaces bother me because they are supposed to intimidate the population…the strength they convey means they can continue taxing people to make them pay to convey their strength. And yet palaces impress me because they tell others.. “don’t mess with my folks, I can kill you” and make life more…