mountains are wonderful, but the sea is even more.
aveiro
portuguese (still) life
i'd be delighted, if i received a post card from portugal's coast with the photograph above. first of all i personally like narrowed sections way more than vast overviews, which is why i almost never miss a wide-angel option for my daily photography. and in the second place i think, that the shown scene is very typical for the rural region between porto and lisbon: resilience, colourfullness, bluntness, beauty.
btw: if my arguments hadn't been just this tiny little bit stronger than tina's, we'd have returned home with three instead of two cases, the additional one filled with various portuguese tiles from the flea market...
lighthouse guard
my relationship to the lighthouse in praia da barra is a special one: basically i don't find it very nice, but it finally showed me the way into vacations again. after being surfing there two years ago, it has already been the second time i visited it; constituting the end of the landmass, marking the beginning of a wonderful, vast sand beach. good to know, that someone is looking out for this important landmark.
broken heart
although aveiro, one of our favourite smaller towns in portugal and the place, where the broken heart above was discovered, isn't exclusively famous for its tourism (but rather its university), even there on the spot the circumstance of travelling in low season has the big advantage of being part of a real, authentic city life; a fact, we prize highly. consequently our hearts were actually not endangered of being broken by solitude.