It's Saturday and I have no mail so I thought to feature an unusual postcard from Portugal, a cork card featuring the Portugese Azulejos tiles of Portugese ships.
Why do I like ships and hot air balloons?
If I was to say what I could remember from my elementary days in school it would be the subject on Portugese Explorers and Greek Myths,coupled with watching a lot of Indiana Jones with my father that fed my wonder on how people travelled long distances with the old fashioned method of sea travel. Ever since then I always dreamt of being an adventurer, sailing on ships to discover new land,or flying in a hot air balloon into the unknown (blame 'Around the world in 80 days' for that one)
The odd thing was I never thought to visit Portugal ,especially when you're in some small corner in South East Asia, it seems like a place one only can dream about from the encyclopedia. Having set foot in Lisbon, sitting by the Monument of Discovery, and looking out over the Targus River, I wondered what those explorers thought about when they set sail on the expedition to go beyond Africa.
Thank you Filipa for this amazing postcard!
and here's something for you to listen, a beautiful song I heard in Porto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSIGWEcR5Dc Dulce Pontes "Song of the Sea"
Sent: 8 January 2013, Received: 16 January 2013, Travelled: 8 days
