I love Portugal

This is Lisbon.

He just wanted us to have a photo with the fishing rod, or do the fishing with him... it was tricky communication business trying to workout which. 

Sitting out the front of one of my favourite cafes, they had blueberry bagels and a view.
Enough said.

Street art guy.

He showed me where the ice-cream was.

here's to looking up.

"ice-cream is gonna save the day."

views from the window.

pt2

I learnt a lot in Lisbon.

Audience of one.

A combination of awe and excitement re: The National live in Lisbon. 

= Woke to the sound of birds calling and I wanna water the flowers in the garden =

i see you... but not in a creepy way...

While leaving London. 

Ruth at the airport.
They called her name over the speaker.

= I love Portugal / head to my toe.=

#thesoundtrackofnam...

#abouttoday...
"Reflecting on today i should have eaten more than bubble tea, pineapple and an airplane "meal" [its not really that bad, i don't know why airplane food gets so much hate...] it had been 12 days and the police still hadn't finished or rather- hadn't started the insurance report for my stolen iphone. Anh said its because it got taken from your hand, in daylight, at the same intersection that the police station is on- so it makes them look bad and lazy... which is what they are! he said.
i sat in the police station for too long again, one of the girls who run the hostel translated for me; a whole lot more aggressively than how i put it and it worked. she added things like " she'll call the australian embassy and report you... if she misses her flight tonight you'll be paying for it etc etc" i was very thankful that she was there with me.

before this experience began, i wondered what the soundtrack would be and since my chosen music was removed from me on the first day here; the soundtrack naturally became the experience itself...
the lyrics are foreign, the melody- both haunting and playful. sounds cut in and out of each other but with a sense of belonging; traffic- motorbike horn, a stream of flowing water, the sound of children playing, bricks falling down, someone coughing up, an old woman weeping and begging, weeping and begging, a dog and a chicken, a man laughing and still laughing, layers of silence and if every shade of green had one sound- that... and a woodwind instrument and my beating heart...

The album art would be something like a collage of motorbikes colliding around a monument of earthly significance made of buffalo-head triangle cheese and everything would be drowning, sinking into the ocean but in a hopeful way... with yellow flowers in there somewhere. 

and that is the soundtrack of my #namtownadventure"