tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post3056177845215001938..comments2024-01-22T05:10:11.938+11:00Comments on I am a liminal being: TIMES PAST IIwandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08196036534397389760noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-44034189048836481662015-06-27T09:00:10.965+10:002015-06-27T09:00:10.965+10:00Yes yes to loveable. A focal point, like a festiva...Yes yes to loveable. A focal point, like a festival, makes such a difference doesn't it. Did you write on that and I miss it?<br /><br />Kim would need no forgiveness on the Museum, and I have to agree. It was fantastic, like, say, restoring the Battersea power station from coal in to electricity out in complete detail and capturing the essence of the times in the sweat and labour to the magnificence of the turbines and generators, on which we prosper(ed).<br /><br />And yes we did go to the cloisters, he hobbling along.wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196036534397389760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-5403976948347882942015-06-27T02:54:23.714+10:002015-06-27T02:54:23.714+10:00So long as he also ventured into the cloisters at ...So long as he also ventured into the cloisters at Belem, I forgive him. <br /><br />Actually I think jellied eels are the most disgusting things in terms of texture, taste, everything. But these weren't bad (and it was a very nice restaurant in Sintra). <br /><br />My feelings about Portugal increased a hundredfold last year when we spent a long weekend at the Setubal Festival - a lovable place, lovable people, and beautiful landscape along the coast.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-15236412514920239042015-06-26T10:04:40.713+10:002015-06-26T10:04:40.713+10:00And Debbie was a strong influence on our going too...And Debbie was a strong influence on our going too. It will be a one-visit city for us most likely, although we have close friends here who have been the last two years. K's knee bunged after Sintra, where we could well have spent more time, so that was limiting. Eating eels! How could you! I must say we didn't find the food especially memorable (Belem tarts excepted) despite two worthwhile visits to <a href="http://www.gambrinuslisboa.com" rel="nofollow">Gambrinus</a>.<br /><br />All that said, we don't regret a minute of it, and I leant heaps. K actually went to a museum twice, and you can count them on one hand: the amazing Electricity Museum, also at Belem (handy that).wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196036534397389760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-20520731822699875482015-06-25T20:56:01.516+10:002015-06-25T20:56:01.516+10:00Lisbon was one of our least successful jaunts - no...Lisbon was one of our least successful jaunts - not least because, having stayed in a horrid brown hotel which wasn't cheap for the first few days, when we returned from Sintra - where we DID have a good time - we opted for a cheap hotel on the harbour. Turned out to be a brothel with the bell going all night long. And I had food poisoning from eels, and then J misread a nought on a king prawn dish in an otherwise cheap seafood place and cleaned us out of the money we had left (still pre hole-in-the-wall time) so we only just afforded a 4am taxi to the airport. Maybe should go back because I know Debbie loves it.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.com