Tuesday 14 December 2010

Phone interview


I had a phone interview with people in a distant country (ok, not that distant, but still).
This was my working desk, but in the end, the landlord of the place I was staying in had sheduled a whole range of work to be done that afternoon I was to have that phonecall, and I bloody didn't know it. I had to retreat in one of the rooms and did most of the interview standing with my thoughts.

Monday 6 December 2010

Saturday 4 December 2010

Beer on the Tage



Only tourists on the terraces, somehow, portuguese don't seem to like hanging out in the open air.

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Castelo de Sao Jorge, Lisboa





Now if the English, somehow, had invaded Portugal and managed to stay there (that's just an imaginary hypothesis for the sake of the argument), this lovely castle which looms over the hilly city of Lisboa would be covered with wires. The internal defense walls as well as the very rare barriers where such walls are lacking, are all below knee-length. It's great to be walking up there, but it's quite likely a couple of tourists break a leg every year or so. British health and Safety legislation would surely have erected vast metalic frames to prevent such hazards...