Autumn Haze in Portugal

Tears from Portugal

O Salty Sea, How Much of Your Tears is from Portugal?

*From Mar Português, by Fernando Pessoa

There was a troll under the bridge. I had to give him a bottle of white port.

He said he’d been taking photos of visitors to the Basilica of Santa Luzia for 36 years. So I took his.

Viana do Castelo, as seen from the Monte de Santa Luzia

Fishermen on the coast listening to Kenny Rogers on a tiny radio. You gotta know when to hold ’em …

Moledo de Minho.

Mimes and other street performers on election day in this village. Street music, calling everyone to the polls, was the theme song from the West Wing!

Two ghosts huddled in the ruins of this fortaleza, Vila Nova de Cerveira

On other side of the River Minho is Spain. I didn’t know it when I snapped this picture, but it would be three more days before I got there; three days, a night trapped in a brothel and an adventure in the woods.