<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658</id><updated>2011-07-30T16:59:51.846Z</updated><title type='text'>vou ali e já volto</title><subtitle type='html'>world travel blog from vasco pinhol, a traveller-writer-diver-photographer.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>55</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-8155411461834654470</id><published>2010-01-22T21:23:00.002Z</published><updated>2010-01-22T21:28:54.975Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYeUrj02I/AAAAAAAAAFw/05mR9_U7HZ0/s1600-h/EL_HIERRO_09HIGH00002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYeUrj02I/AAAAAAAAAFw/05mR9_U7HZ0/s320/EL_HIERRO_09HIGH00002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429679209975108450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYeWgz8sI/AAAAAAAAAFo/w7_jwi5IecE/s1600-h/EL_HIERRO_09HIGH00017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYeWgz8sI/AAAAAAAAAFo/w7_jwi5IecE/s320/EL_HIERRO_09HIGH00017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429679210466898626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYeD2dKLI/AAAAAAAAAFg/BbTcjn8QeS4/s1600-h/008_vp_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYeD2dKLI/AAAAAAAAAFg/BbTcjn8QeS4/s320/008_vp_L.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429679205457406130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYd5xLMdI/AAAAAAAAAFY/8YFQLaGkpfM/s1600-h/002_vp_B_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYd5xLMdI/AAAAAAAAAFY/8YFQLaGkpfM/s320/002_vp_B_L.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429679202750902738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYdrcH1NI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/rdmwqzfkl_s/s1600-h/EL_HIERRO_09HIGH00007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYdrcH1NI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/rdmwqzfkl_s/s320/EL_HIERRO_09HIGH00007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429679198904505554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;better late than never (again)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-8155411461834654470?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/8155411461834654470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/8155411461834654470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2010/01/better-late-than-never-again.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/S1oYeUrj02I/AAAAAAAAAFw/05mR9_U7HZ0/s72-c/EL_HIERRO_09HIGH00002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-8775211492581643724</id><published>2008-03-16T11:10:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-03-16T11:34:32.918Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R90FUx6hB9I/AAAAAAAAADc/ItK6pT-MEfI/s1600-h/Untitled-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178301001100232658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R90FUx6hB9I/AAAAAAAAADc/ItK6pT-MEfI/s320/Untitled-1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;when we are thoroughly gone, color will remain because it is independent from viewer, or it will disappear because it has no validation from the viewers? (it may be that trees will remain too, careless)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-8775211492581643724?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/8775211492581643724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/8775211492581643724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2008/03/when-we-are-thoroughly-gone-color-will.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R90FUx6hB9I/AAAAAAAAADc/ItK6pT-MEfI/s72-c/Untitled-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-1404596843531702659</id><published>2008-03-13T11:27:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-03-13T11:43:26.714Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;color is simple...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R9kTIx6hB8I/AAAAAAAAADU/G7sqMWm6VlE/s1600-h/vascopinhol_BIRG_ALEX0217low.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177190288197748674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R9kTIx6hB8I/AAAAAAAAADU/G7sqMWm6VlE/s320/vascopinhol_BIRG_ALEX0217low.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R9kS4h6hB7I/AAAAAAAAADM/TI0Hl2lEfuk/s1600-h/sunsetthroughashell.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177190009024874418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R9kS4h6hB7I/AAAAAAAAADM/TI0Hl2lEfuk/s320/sunsetthroughashell.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R9kQax6hB4I/AAAAAAAAAC0/AOTnPD5gVqM/s1600-h/vpinhol_skodje41157LOW.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177187298900510594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R9kQax6hB4I/AAAAAAAAAC0/AOTnPD5gVqM/s320/vpinhol_skodje41157LOW.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;...it is our brain that complicates the simple things.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-1404596843531702659?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/1404596843531702659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/1404596843531702659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2008/03/is-color-simple.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R9kTIx6hB8I/AAAAAAAAADU/G7sqMWm6VlE/s72-c/vascopinhol_BIRG_ALEX0217low.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-3638232272094592978</id><published>2008-03-11T20:53:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-03-11T20:55:21.070Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R9bxah6hB3I/AAAAAAAAACs/skRgGvDCvqk/s1600-h/COLOR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176590259791660914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R9bxah6hB3I/AAAAAAAAACs/skRgGvDCvqk/s320/COLOR.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;... no&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;matter how much people try to make you believe that everybody should dream in black and white.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-3638232272094592978?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/3638232272094592978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/3638232272094592978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/R9bxah6hB3I/AAAAAAAAACs/skRgGvDCvqk/s72-c/COLOR.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-3359975462590671599</id><published>2007-11-12T12:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-11-12T12:31:28.088Z</updated><title type='text'>back in aalesund, thankfully cold</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RzhHVZEo4EI/AAAAAAAAACk/-D2ROOR7HhE/s1600-h/L1050051.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131930208221847618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RzhHVZEo4EI/AAAAAAAAACk/-D2ROOR7HhE/s320/L1050051.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RzhG0ZEo4DI/AAAAAAAAACc/atIT8WThr1A/s1600-h/L1050061.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131929641286164530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RzhG0ZEo4DI/AAAAAAAAACc/atIT8WThr1A/s320/L1050061.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RzhGqJEo4CI/AAAAAAAAACU/afUIW4q8FTM/s1600-h/L1050056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131929465192505378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RzhGqJEo4CI/AAAAAAAAACU/afUIW4q8FTM/s320/L1050056.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Going on means going far, going far means returning&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;I Ching&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-3359975462590671599?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/3359975462590671599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/3359975462590671599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2007/11/back-in-aalesund-thankfully-cold.html' title='back in aalesund, thankfully cold'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RzhHVZEo4EI/AAAAAAAAACk/-D2ROOR7HhE/s72-c/L1050051.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-246565230653497362</id><published>2007-11-04T14:17:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-11-04T14:48:28.523Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;yo, time to show stuff again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;let's start with a memorable bike trip in the wild kingdom of Algarve, with my partner-in-adventure Hugo. :-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128992464995277730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ry3XeOuy26I/AAAAAAAAABk/UFamVPWY3u4/s320/L1030890.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;we started off by crossing the world renowned bridge that has no name, and which links the base camp (at Fazenda do Belo Romão) to the high mountain we were prepared to conquer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128995080630361058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ry3Z2euy2-I/AAAAAAAAACE/c110GLsCNUs/s320/L1030891.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;as can be seen from the image, there is a track that helps find the way up, which was reputedly carved by the ancient Portuguese inhabitants of Algarve, now gone and replaced by wealthy-foreigners-looking-for-a-warmer-retirement-place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128993839384812482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ry3YuOuy28I/AAAAAAAAAB0/v8R4N7sSzA0/s320/L1030894.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;at this point, we decided to use our communication resources to contact base camp and let them know we were still alive and well. The oxygen was beginning to be rarefied at this altitude (approximately 103 meters above sea level) as can be seen by the color of my hair (which, as everyone knows, turns white when the oxygen level drops).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128994496514808786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ry3ZUeuy29I/AAAAAAAAAB8/Tq_xj6xwKXY/s320/L1030900.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;in this picture you can clearly see the extraordinary altitude reached at this point of the journey. At this point we had to stop often to laugh (laughter is the best way to keep your brain irrigated).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128995746350291954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ry3adOuy2_I/AAAAAAAAACM/ECSlvW8hCmY/s320/L1030912.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;and here we are, at the top of the top of that world famous peak of Cerro de S. Miguel. As you can see, some of the team members had to shed some weight (namely in pieces of clothing) to be able to climb the last meters. So here it is, our extraordinary exploration in which we reclaimed this mountain to Portugal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-246565230653497362?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/246565230653497362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/246565230653497362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2007/11/yo-time-to-show-stuff-again.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ry3XeOuy26I/AAAAAAAAABk/UFamVPWY3u4/s72-c/L1030890.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-4011287325336995364</id><published>2007-09-17T00:10:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-09-17T00:26:25.216Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ru3I84CXNsI/AAAAAAAAABc/szz8Hk-Erx4/s1600-h/L1040402.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110962100295382722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ru3I84CXNsI/AAAAAAAAABc/szz8Hk-Erx4/s320/L1040402.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;let's start with a little reminder of what Aalesund is like. This is the view from the pizzeria downtown, and yes, that thing there in the end of the street IS a ship, a large fishing boat. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-4011287325336995364?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/4011287325336995364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/4011287325336995364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2007/09/lets-start-with-little-reminder-of-what.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ru3I84CXNsI/AAAAAAAAABc/szz8Hk-Erx4/s72-c/L1040402.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-5117502783289272712</id><published>2007-09-17T00:01:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-09-17T00:09:55.823Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ru3FMoCXNrI/AAAAAAAAABU/6_q2dIRoZL8/s1600-h/8main.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110957972831811250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ru3FMoCXNrI/AAAAAAAAABU/6_q2dIRoZL8/s320/8main.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;A lot of water under the bridge since last post. Summer in the Great North is FUN! Of course it helps if your comfort window is wide enough to encompass some higher and lower temperatures than normal but, as long as you're active... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Let me think... it really has been a seriously active Summer... ok, let's go cronologically.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;I was a week in Lisboa, nurturing computers back to life - maybe it was the time of the year, maybe it was the high temperatures of Portuguese Summer, but EVERYTHING went broke.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-5117502783289272712?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/5117502783289272712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/5117502783289272712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2007/09/lot-of-water-under-bridge-since-last.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Ru3FMoCXNrI/AAAAAAAAABU/6_q2dIRoZL8/s72-c/8main.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-3926216065698141461</id><published>2007-06-14T10:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-06-14T10:32:45.127Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RnEYKtCa5AI/AAAAAAAAABE/F6WWhfdZRlI/s1600-h/L1030835.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075864827190764546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RnEYKtCa5AI/AAAAAAAAABE/F6WWhfdZRlI/s320/L1030835.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;norway in summer, or never leave home without your exposure suit...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;a simple ride, about 38 km - hey, this is summer, ok? - so i go in shorts and no more extra gear besides a rain-shell. Suddenly rain starts falling, then pouring. The temperature drops and i begin to feel the hands like in a ski run with no gloves. I look at the temperature and it's 6 degrees! Then it drops even more, and we look on the other side of the lake and we see this:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075865686184223762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RnEY8tCa5BI/AAAAAAAAABM/R7pwp_gDlBo/s320/L1030832.jpg" border="0" /&gt;it's not only raining, it's SNOWING!!! (laugh!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-3926216065698141461?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/3926216065698141461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/3926216065698141461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2007/06/norway-in-summer-or-never-leave-home.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/RnEYKtCa5AI/AAAAAAAAABE/F6WWhfdZRlI/s72-c/L1030835.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-1265483113764477104</id><published>2007-06-12T23:21:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-06-12T23:37:58.915Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Rm8r0dCa45I/AAAAAAAAAAM/cKrI7fMHNZ4/s1600-h/L1030755.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075323485217809298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Rm8r0dCa45I/AAAAAAAAAAM/cKrI7fMHNZ4/s320/L1030755.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Cycling in Aalesund...it's Summer - although Summer here is quite erratic, like an old man's mind on a half-forgotten errand. We are at the epicenter of the fjords (forget New Zealand, THIS IS the real thing!), so there are just no bike trails in the real sense of it. There are "paths" which people take walking, with alarming levels of difficulty and most of them just plainly uncyclable. But ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Here's the first try...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075323695671206818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Rm8sAtCa46I/AAAAAAAAAAU/dcjOEdC-xOI/s320/2007sykkel01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;This is the map produced by the gps. As you can see in the graph of the altimeter, changes in altitude can be quite interesting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075324254016955314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Rm8shNCa47I/AAAAAAAAAAc/vwIHdqw-iz0/s320/L1030763.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;the views are much more alarming than the drops of altitude or the rocky path. There is Sea Out There, mottled with little scattered islands. Vikings had to be vikings...not much chance to be anything else...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075325254744335314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Rm8tbdCa49I/AAAAAAAAAAs/XOnsk546j_0/s320/L1030803.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075325499557471202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Rm8tptCa4-I/AAAAAAAAAA0/AbycIMGMPBY/s320/L1030760.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075326040723350514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Rm8uJNCa4_I/AAAAAAAAAA8/Qm1r1BcNbxI/s320/L1030779.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;to be continued&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-1265483113764477104?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/1265483113764477104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/1265483113764477104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2007/06/cycling-in-aalesund.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_m8bq91Ggcmo/Rm8r0dCa45I/AAAAAAAAAAM/cKrI7fMHNZ4/s72-c/L1030755.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-117494425734614924</id><published>2007-03-26T21:56:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-26T22:47:22.426Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/1600/226812/DSCN2910.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/306342/DSCN2910.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;It's time to talk about you. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;it's been several weeks of compiling your absences into this big void that you left behind. So, it is time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/276803/Untitled-21.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;I still wake up every morning and go jogging like we used to. There’s this little silly bird which everyday, ever since you left us, chirps around my head all the time. I wonder if there’s any message you told him to give me, but I can only wonder, for I do not speak bird.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/261952/Image036.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Nor did you, either. But there are many languages we did not speak and there was one that we both did and maybe I should check on the bird closer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;It’s been hard. Every time I drop anything on the floor I expect to hear you coming to check if it is edible. Filipe is turning almost two, and in his apprenticeship of table manners, he leaves a sea of crumbs and little pieces of food that you had learned to expect and I had not learned to expect to find. So every night, I silently clear them away and remember you dearly and think of how much I would love your help.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/284440/Untitled-35.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Anna is walking around with your picture – which I printed, wrongly or not, in a real-life size – still trying to figure out what forever means. And neither of us can help her, because we also have no idea how to manipulate the concept. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/246835/DSCN1847.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;We miss you. Thank you for being ours, it was a privilege to be yours.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-117494425734614924?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/117494425734614924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/117494425734614924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-time-to-talk-about-you.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-116665442573755623</id><published>2006-12-20T22:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-12-20T22:40:25.756Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/1600/567003/vpinhol_bruxl2238_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/595864/vpinhol_bruxl2238_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in brussels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;there are people, many people. But there are other interests too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/1600/359725/vpinhol_bruxl2239_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/667720/vpinhol_bruxl2239_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;in his book "Gog", Giovanni Papinni writes about a character, a Croesus who lives in the bubble his immense wealth permits, who thinks that nothing is more intimate and should be less shared than the moment of eating. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/1600/343621/vpinhol_bruxl2245_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/622296/vpinhol_bruxl2245_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;...just passing through..&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/1600/791776/vpinhol_bruxl2246_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/350579/vpinhol_bruxl2246_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/1600/290033/VSP_0142_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/162359/VSP_0142_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;i really sincerely utterly do not know how else can i photograph the fiery love i have for music.Sorry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-116665442573755623?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/116665442573755623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/116665442573755623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/12/in-brussels-there-are-people-many.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-116665245095695810</id><published>2006-12-20T21:55:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-12-21T00:22:20.806Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/1600/597126/vpinhol1751.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/797344/vpinhol1751.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;whenever by some devious reason we may think that life has come to a point, it just moves on. There are people being born and people being reborn, both out of love or out of tragedy; there are loves that were forever and are no more and loves that never were and become eternal; moments become unmoveable objects and monoliths dissolve in the rain. SantaClaus again, Xmas time again, we'll soon be talking to the Easter Bunny again. Again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/1600/641149/vpinhol2331.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/407273/vpinhol2331.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;can i say that i want it now? or should I get closer to the end first?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Where is the snow? What the hell have you done with the snow?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/1600/552578/skime2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5517/2942/320/757677/skime2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-116665245095695810?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/116665245095695810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/116665245095695810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/12/whenever-by-some-devious-reason-we-may.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-116185011216605962</id><published>2006-10-26T07:40:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-11-01T23:15:24.930Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;BACK!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;one of the things that are most alarming with this brave new world of instant and gratifying communication is that, if you're used to use it on a daily basis, once you are gone to the vast-world-out-there-without-internet-services days ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1020043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1020043.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;... posting accumulates to a point in which theres so much that has been untold you don't really know where to start when you're back. I don't really know who checks these strange musings and stranger imagings, but let's assume that at least one person does (me) so I told myself it was high time to...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1020016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1020016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;... stop wondering "now what the "#$"# am I gonna post next since so much has happened while away", and just get down to it and post. So I'll do the easiest, which is to post the latest happenings: Egypt's Red Sea, and the wild world of live-aboarding in the 5-star floating hotels that dive boats have become lately. Welcome to Infinity, an Emperor Dive operation: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/almostwreck1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/almostwreck1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;//&lt;br /&gt;aiai... nada como o tempo a passar para nos apercebermos de que é finito. Estas ferramentas de comunicação (blogues, webpages, email), até há tão pouco tempo o píncaro último do luxo da tecnologia, ajudaram-me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/kingston2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/kingston2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;... a perceber que o píncaro último do luxo-luxo é, presentemente, o da sorte de ir para um sítio onde estas ferramentas de comunicação se encontrem indisponíveis. É claro que isto é conversa de um parvo europeu que pertence aos 0,002% da população mundial que desfruta destas possibilidades tecnológicas; é até claro que ao mínimo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/021L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/021L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;...movimento intestinal da nossa civilização isto tudo desaparecerá num ápice para mais não ser lembrado... mas é assim. É preciso ter para, num primeiro movimento dar valor ao ter e, num segundo, dar valor ao não ter. Eis assim o prólogo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1010785.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1010785.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;... para V. mostrar onde me dei ao "luxo" de não poder publicar aqui: o Infinity, um barco de mergulho de 5 estrelas que navega aqui e ali no Mar Vermelho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-116185011216605962?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/116185011216605962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/116185011216605962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/10/back-one-of-things-that-are-most.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-116094249026545684</id><published>2006-10-15T19:49:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-10-15T20:01:30.286Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1000374.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1000374.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;When you grow up and look at this picture, will you look backward or forward?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1000234_low.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1000234_low.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;pois. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-116094249026545684?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/116094249026545684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/116094249026545684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/10/when-you-grow-up-and-look-at-this.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115918976902333499</id><published>2006-09-25T12:59:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-10-17T13:54:44.916Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1010547_low.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1010547_low.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;as seen in a Norwegian newspaper... sometimes the media people are just plainly silly (or did it happen by pure chance?) //&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;olhem para esta página de um jornal norueguês... às vezes o pessoal dos jornais é mesmo passado (ou será isto uma coincidência nunca antes vista...ou vista apenas com um olho?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1010548_low.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1010548_low.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;please draw a diagonal between the top right and the bottom left, then look at it with just one eye. ;-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;desenhem uma linha diagonal imaginária entre o topo direito e o fundo esquerdo da página... depois olhem para a foto com um olho tapado... ;-)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/Untitled-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/Untitled-1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;(ok, you can be young at heart but hard of eye... so i show more: this gentleman was being interviewed. Unfortunately, in his rich and fulfilled life he has lost one eye... Unfortunately too, the DTP people in the newspaper decided it was ok to print in the same page, along with this photo...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;// e explico melhor. Este senhor foi entrevistado, a contar as aventuras da sua vida, que foi muito aventurosa e lhe tirou um olho...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/Untitled-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/Untitled-2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;... in the ad on the bottom. Hmmm...)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;// como ele posou para a foto sem a pála-à-pirata, o pessoal da paginação resolveu que seria de bom gosto pôr na mesma página este anúncio com o puto a... gozar com o cegueta?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115918976902333499?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115918976902333499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115918976902333499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/09/as-seen-in-norwegian-newspaper.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115850255017712091</id><published>2006-09-17T14:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-09-17T14:15:50.196Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1000352.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1000352.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;There, in the middle of the wheat (is it wheat? Or just another of those look-alikes that confuse our botany?), can you spot it? That's it, that thing that looks like some type of saturday kid's candy. It's the lighthouse at Alnes, the place where one day I'll go to write about something either sillier or more serious than what I write about now. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Olhem lá com atenção, no meio da salada visual (a que poderei facilmente chamar propositada sem corar), escondido por detrás das "ervas" (a palavra "erva" é a versão botânica da palavra "coisa"). É o farol de Alnes (Alnes Fyr) que comprova à escala macroscópica os princípios mais oblíquos da mecânica quântica (é que fica em dois sítios ao mesmo tempo: em Alnes, numa ilha que faz de barreira entre o mar a sério e os fjords noruegueses, e no meu imaginário).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1000356.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1000356.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;aiai... and you should see the rest...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1000365.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1000365.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;pois...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115850255017712091?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115850255017712091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115850255017712091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/09/there-in-middle-of-wheat-is-it-wheat.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115841273240971103</id><published>2006-09-16T13:02:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-09-16T13:18:52.423Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Driving down the road in the middle of this great, undivided, Norwegian forest, very slightly above speed limit (it's the little bow to self-expression that one can afford while doing boring things like driving in these roads of the Great North), squashing a non quantifiable number of forest bugs while opening my very personal chaotic path through this organization of trees-road-mountains-birds-and-bugs (even the simplest life form has a level of organization several orders of magnitude above that of any given planetary system), feeling I've been out of my own skin for too long.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_skodjemedF1609.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_skodjemedF1609.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;O ruído estralejante dos besouros que se esmagam contra o pára-brisas. É a minha contribuição muito pessoal para a entropia que se vê contrariada nesta profusão de vida que atravesso, nesta estrada fininha e ondulante no Grande Norte - uma floresta contínua que remete todos os desertos e todas as sedes para o reino da fantasia. Vou ligeiramente acima da velocidade máxima permitida - que é a cedência que faço ao meu individualismo mediterrânico. Aqui, quando alguém é apanhado em excesso de velocidade, é imediatamente abatido pela polícia e deixado aos corvos. O carro é seguidamente transportado para uma garagem central onde é desfeito e vendido às peças. É um país diferente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_skodjemedF1612.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_skodjemedF1612.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115841273240971103?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115841273240971103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115841273240971103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/09/driving-down-road-in-middle-of-this.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115841155404994631</id><published>2006-09-16T12:51:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-09-16T12:59:14.063Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;For your information // Atenção, descoberta importante:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Our team of experts has finally been able to establish what has been for a long time suspected but never before proven. Here are the results:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1000640.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1000640.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;chemical formula of a smile when one receives a message from a very old and very dear friend that has been absent for a long time // em cima vemos a fórmula química de um sorriso quando acabamos de receber uma qualquer notícia, mensagem ou qualquer outro tipo de contacto de um amigo de quem não se sabe nada há muito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/L1000639.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/L1000639.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Chemical formula of a smile when one receives a message from a friend who is a little too intense.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;As you can see, they are completely different. // e aqui a fórmula química de um sorriso que se faz quando se tem de falar com alguém de quem se gosta mas que é um "ganda chato". Conforme se pode constatar são, efectivamente, diferentes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115841155404994631?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115841155404994631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115841155404994631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/09/for-your-information-ateno-descoberta.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115464705195278174</id><published>2006-08-03T23:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-08-03T23:17:31.966Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;For our eyes only (don't look)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/_VSP8011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/_VSP8011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Hush, little baby, don't say a word. Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird won't sing...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/_VSP7821.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;...Papa will play guitar and Anna will sing... (don't worry, Mommy will just smile)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115464705195278174?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115464705195278174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115464705195278174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/08/for-our-eyes-only-dont-look-hush.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115443136004444142</id><published>2006-08-01T11:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-08-01T11:22:40.056Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;... and here it is, a cloud of blue tangs, with their little sharp and yellow hooks in the tails. Believe me, those hooks can shred your concentration to threads, all those little yellow dots on the fantastic shades of blues...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/mex44.3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;...e aqui está uma parede de peixitos que se chamam "blue tangs"...são muito amiguinhos uns dos outros e andam quase sempre assim juntinhos, a confirmar expectativas de beleza subaquática. Têm uns ganchos amarelos junto à cauda, que são rígidos e afiados mas são, acima de tudo, amarelos...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115443136004444142?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115443136004444142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115443136004444142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/08/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115425789207471719</id><published>2006-07-30T10:54:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-30T13:13:21.756Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;ONLY IN MEXICO (reprise) // SÓ MESMO NO MÉXICO...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/mex13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/mex13.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;In this pier, where Akumal tries to stand up to the Atlantic (believe me, it looks sedate but, in the hurricane season...no comments)   It's from here that we leave for the most relaxed drift dives I've ever done in my whole life. A slow, steady, warm and clean current that carries the divers over a bed of corals that put to shame more renowned dive sites, complete with full sets of turtles, toy sharks, fierce barracudas and storms of blue tangs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Este pontão parece acabar naquela cabana mas é mentira. Continua (por extensão do barco ali atracado) pelo Atlântico adentro - que aqui parece ser sempre um mar de brincar até que chega a época dos furacões - e abre-se depois no mergulho mais relaxado da minha vida. É um mergulho de corrente, ou seja, o mergulhador senta-se confortavelmente na corrente que corre devagarinho para sul e vai pairando assim como que num tapete-voador sobre a topologia colorida dos corais, barracudas, ramalhetes de tartarugas, aqui e ali com pontos de exclamação em forma de tubarão-da-treta (os tubarões-da-treta são tubarões pequenininhos que fogem espavoridos ao primeiro sinal de pessoa)...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115425789207471719?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115425789207471719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115425789207471719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/only-in-mexico-reprise-s-mesmo-no.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115410532383087332</id><published>2006-07-28T16:44:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-30T10:54:12.886Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/Image013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 138px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 182px" height="231" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/Image013.jpg" width="177" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;by the way... do old footnotes stink...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt; que som terá uma nota de rodapé...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/_VSP7984.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 146px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 226px" height="246" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/_VSP7984.jpg" width="163" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;paying love with love (translation of an old Portuguese adage, "amor com amor se paga")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115410532383087332?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115410532383087332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115410532383087332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/by-way.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115404627232051679</id><published>2006-07-28T00:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-28T00:24:32.320Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ONLY IN MEXICO! (2) // SÓ MESMO NO MÉXICO! (2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/mex02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Only in Mexico I would come up with the idea of trying to shoot people underwater while melting into the sun. It was not me, it was the frame of mind.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Só no México me lembraria de pegar na máquina e pôr-me à coca à espera que viesse um banhista para que eu pudesse tirar esta foto de uma pessoa na água a dissolver-se no sol.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115404627232051679?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115404627232051679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115404627232051679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/only-in-mexico-2-s-mesmo-no-mxico-2.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115404557036006608</id><published>2006-07-28T00:05:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-28T00:12:50.373Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff6600;"&gt;I have a very important announcement to make:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#ff6600;"&gt;do not, absolutely, miss this story and this video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/"&gt;http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Whenever I'm travelling, there's this ininterrupt little dance of happiness playing over and over in my brain. It's hard to explain (and silly to talk about it) but now I can show you Matt. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#ffcc33;"&gt;Descobri alguém que pôs em video uma espécie de filme do que me vai na cabeça quando viajo. Se quiserem ver: cliquem no link em cima e depois, cliquem no video (com som). Yes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115404557036006608?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115404557036006608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115404557036006608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/i-have-very-important-announcement-to.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115399397902879210</id><published>2006-07-27T09:13:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-27T09:52:59.043Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;ONLY IN MEXICO ... // SÓ MESMO NO MÉXICO ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;One day, I was walking about in the public market in Acapulco (which is physically close to the Acapulco we all know, but is conceptually as far as the Gassendi A crater on the Moon) and saw this man, leaning against a pile of wood crates - with life going on around him at the usual fast pace - blowing a single note on his saxophone, at intervals of about 20 seconds. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;I felt absolutely sure he was actually from the Gassendi A crater on the Moon. I know now for a fact that his leaders had pointed their "native-copying-device" randomly and had beamed at one of the members of the cha-cha-cha band "Moreno y Sus Guapos Acapulqueños". They applied the obtained image to this extraterrestrial who was then sent, by another technical mistake, to the market in Acapulco. Which is fine, because the market is actually in a another parallel space-time dimension.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/a09.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Um dia, andava eu perdido sózinho pelo mercado de Acapulco - que, deixem-me dizer-vos, pode ser em Acapulco mas parece ser, na realidade, de outro planeta noutra dimensão espacio-temporal - quando dei de caras com esta figura. De vinte em vinte segundos, soltava uma nota singular, sempre a mesma, no seu lindo sax, perfeitamente invisível para a vida em seu redor, perfeitamente sem ver a vida em seu redor. Ainda hoje acho que se tratava de um ser extraterrestre que, por uma qualquer falha de sistema, tinha sido enviado à Terra neste preparo. Imagino que os seus chefes tenham ligado um feixe-de-cópia-de-nativos aleatoriamente apontado à Terra e tenham atingido um dos membros da banda de cha-cha-cha "Moreno y sus Guapos". A imagem assim criada deve ter sido depois transferida para este extraterrestre que, por outra deficiência do seu GPS intergaláctico deve ter ido parar ao mercado de Acapulco que, de qualquer modo, fica noutro planeta, noutra dimensão espacio-temporal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Not much time later, at another Mexican public market not far from Oaxaca, I came accross the solution to this sax-player riddle. This is how they are (the weird sax players), after all, developed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/a10.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Na realidade, esta estória acabou por ter um desfecho diferente: passados alguns dias, andava eu passeando por outro mercado - desta feita perto de Oaxaca - quando dei de caras com a solução do mistério. É assim que eles começam, de pequeninos...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115399397902879210?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115399397902879210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115399397902879210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/only-in-mexico.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115396282375642823</id><published>2006-07-27T00:55:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-27T01:13:43.790Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;I MISS MEXICO! // QUE SAUDADES, CARAMBA!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 159px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 174px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="223" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/File0002.jpg" width="221" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;When all this starts to be on the heavy side, I have these terrible urges to go to Mexico. In Mexico one doesn't feel the need to reinvent oneself because the surprises are so many and so - let's be straight - surprising, that one stops all introspection so that all senses can be attuned to the surroundings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Quando as coisas começam a apertar, tenho cá umas ganas de me pisgar para o México... É que no México parece tudo inventado, a cada esquina acontece uma aventura - algumas boas, outras óptimas - parece que se está no guião de uma banda desenhada. Até as desventuras são divertidas e dão óptimos ataques de riso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/a14.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Of all places in Mexico, the most Mexican is Oaxaca. In Oaxaca there seems to be no trivial matters whatsoever, even the simplest cacti seem to have a strong purpose that escapes the mechanics of our daily bs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;E quando penso no México, começo sempre por pensar em Oaxaca. Nada é normal - ou melhor, nada é vulgar - em Oaxaca. Até os sorrisos das pessoas são oblíquos. Ao fim de três dias dei por mim a ter dificuldade em tirar uma única fotografia direita em Oaxaca, como se fosse mandatório produzir imagens que mostrassem esse desvio intrínseco da normalidade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115396282375642823?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115396282375642823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115396282375642823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/i-miss-mexico-que-saudades-caramba.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115390883544449029</id><published>2006-07-26T10:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-26T10:13:55.460Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_rita1122.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;on a personal note // nota de rodapé&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_skodje71195.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;anyway, to simplify your analysis, that look you love seems to be the look of love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;"Olha, a resposta é sim. Qual era a pergunta?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/_VSP7820.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115390883544449029?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115390883544449029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115390883544449029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/on-personal-note-nota-de-rodap-anyway.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115374048407853578</id><published>2006-07-24T11:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-24T11:28:04.080Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Every once in a while one is faced with tasks that shape humankind forever. Here's one of those adventures: The Conquest of the Sukker Toppen!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/038.2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/038.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Há alturas em que a necessidade de adrenalina conduz a aventuras tresloucadas. São, muitas vezes, alturas que produzem as maiores conquistas da história da humanidade. Eis uma delas: A CONQUISTA DO SUKKERTOPPEN!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115374048407853578?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115374048407853578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115374048407853578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/every-once-in-while-one-is-faced-with.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115374024075683461</id><published>2006-07-24T11:11:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-24T11:24:00.770Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;The infamous SukkerToppen mountain (in the picture) is an extremely tall mountain very close to the North-Poloe. It is widely known in the world-class mountain-climbing elite as one of the hardest peaks north of K2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Geologically, it was formed on top of the back of a dragon which died close to Aalesund after choking on a half-chewed viking boat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/001.2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/001.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;O famoso pico SukkerToppen (na foto de cima, ao centro) é reputadamente uma das montanhas mais inacessíveis a norte do Everest. A última tentativa, por uma equipa de alpinistas das Maldivas, redundou em fracasso quando, a meio da escalada, alguém se apercebeu de que tinham trazido o carvão e as acendalhas mas se tinham esquecido das salsichas. Geologicamente, SukkerToppen é o remanescente das costas de um dragão que morreu perto de Aalesund, vítima de engasgamento com um barco viking mal mastigado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/006.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/006.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;So that it is documented. We are actually going into the track that leads to the top. The last time that anyone ventured this way was back in the times of the (g)olden Vikings. Actually, the last known expedition to try to conquer SukkerToppen was done by a Maldivian Climbing Team, but it was stopped halfway because someone realized they had the charcoal and the matches but the hot-dogs were missing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Aqui está a prova documental do início da nossa jornada. A última vez que este caminho foi trilhado ainda existiam Vikings!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115374024075683461?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115374024075683461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115374024075683461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/infamous-sukkertoppen-mountain-in.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115373880631441330</id><published>2006-07-24T10:43:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-24T11:00:06.330Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/009.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/009.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;As you can see in the picture above, the lower part of the track, below the tree line, it's actually an equatorial forest. There are reports of several warmer micro-climates in the lower regions of SukkerToppen, namely in the living room of Mr. Ole Slinning, in the vicinity of the fireplace, by that old chandelier, and also in the bottom part of Ms. Frieda Worren's kitchen pantry. This has been extensively documented in peer reviews and publications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Como podem ver, a floresta que cobre a zona inicial do trilho que conduz ao topo de SukkerToppen é uma floresta equatorial. É, aliás, sabido que esta região, embora se situe a um espirro e meio do pólo-norte, é rica em microclimas, dos quais o mais famoso fica aos pés da cama da Sra. Anne-Lisa Indemellom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/012.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/012.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;In this area, that still bears the marks of the Maldivian Base Camp, we found several tracks of BigFoot. The BigFoot is a native of this part of Norway (as it is easily ascertained by the common shoe sizes in shops) and it is remarkably dangerous, for sometimes it carries with it the infamous BigAthlete's Foot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Aqui encontrámos várias pegadas do Abominável Homem das Neves. O Abominável Homem das Neves é um português (chamado António Homem das Neves) que emigrou para estas paragens em 1976 e que se tem dedicado à confecção de botas de montar. Tem, reputadamente, o abominável hábito de cheirar as meias antes de as calçar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/014.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;In this picture we see Erika with a beautiful smile induced by the dizziness from the lack of oxygen due to the extreme altitude. In this extreme conditions, life can hardly be maintained and the only organisms that survive are called extremophiles. At this level, all SMS sent to our mobile phones were being compressed into one, unintelligible message, probably due to interferences from outer space.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Aqui vemos a Erika a rir de nervoso por causa da altitude. Só os organismos mais resistentes (denominados extremófilos) conseguem aguentar a falta de oxigénio que se sente e, devido à altitude extrema, o corpo humano pesa apenas 35% do seu peso normal, pelo que se deve evitar espirrar a todo o custo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115373880631441330?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115373880631441330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115373880631441330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/as-you-can-see-in-picture-above-lower.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115373775668948476</id><published>2006-07-24T10:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-24T10:42:36.706Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Franciscan Monk Burial Site. The Vikings did not like Franciscan Monks. Up to the 17th century, any Franciscan Monk caugh fishing above quota would be buried to the rim of his hair in Sukker Toppen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;É um facto pouco divulgado que o Marquês de Pombal se correspondia secretamente (&lt;a href="mailto:marques@rotunda.pt"&gt;marques@rotunda.pt&lt;/a&gt;) com outros Marqueses de Pombais por essa Europa fora e que coordenou a eliminação sistemática daqueles religiosos que se opunham ao seu despotismo iluminado. Na foto podem ver o que acontecia - à semelhança dos Jesuítas em Portugal - aos monges franciscanos que eram apanhados nesta terra a pescar bacalhau para além da quota.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/017.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Aalesund, the Magnificent. Some people call it the Venezia of the North. And some people call Venezia, the Aalesund of the South. Actually Aalesund is just like Venezia, only totally different. Some people call it Home. We do&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Aalesund a Magnífica. Há quem lhe chame a Veneza do Norte. E também há quem diga que Veneza é, afinal, a Aalesund do Sul. E há também quem se chame Joaquim. Em Aalesund não há Joaquins. Há muitos bacalhaus e muitas loiras. E há três Filipes, todos meio noruegueses-meio portugueses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/019.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;At this altitude, the human lungs grow grass inside and one can hear the buzz of bumble-bees coming and going from the flowers in the bronchi. The flowers only grow inside nice people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;A esta altitude, o cabelo começa a ficar alaranjado e as orelhas descem entre dez a quinze centímetros, protegendo o pescoço contra o vento. Os alpinistas ficam com um ar um bocadinho estranho, mas não se pode evitar e até dá jeito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;This sign marks the place where any complaint against the Norwegian State should be delivered. One is supposed to climb all the way here and wait for a Norwegian State employee from the Complaints Department (which is actually in the same building as the Aliens Office) to come and take the complaint.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Aqui jaz a Burocracia da Noruega. A Burocracia viveu e cresceu neste lindo país até há sensivelmente 15 anos, altura em que subitamente faleceu após uma crise esternutatória. Como era muito grande, foi necessário escavar um buraco do tamanho de um campo de futebol, com cerca de 270 metros de fundo, para a enterrar. Mas está enterrada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115373775668948476?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115373775668948476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115373775668948476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/franciscan-monk-burial-site.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115368872503151373</id><published>2006-07-23T20:46:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-23T21:05:25.053Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/025.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Here you can see the top of the mountain. The contraption you see there is actually an experiment by NASA; it's a fixed satellite. NASA realized that it is cheaper to just fix the satellites to the top of these extremely tall mountains, instead of letting them roam about.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;E aqui está o topo da montanha. O mecanismo que se vê na foto é o braço de uma varinha-mágica industrial, aqui colocada pelo governo norueguês para passar a sopa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/028.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;And here is Erika in the roof of our planet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;E aqui está a Erika, de costas, no tecto do planeta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/036.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;The happiness of conquest. We would leave a flag, if our flag had not melted with the cosmic rays that hit it. At this altitude there is no atmosphere and no ozone layer whatsoever. We were holding our breaths for a very long time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Eis a cara da felicidade da conquista. A esta altitude não há atmosfera, estavamos a prender a respiração.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/026.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;And here's the view from the top.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;E aqui está a vista de lá de cima.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Final Note: SukkerToppen is actually a very small mountain (by Norwegian Fjord Standards) and many people go up to the top every day, after dinner. It's very common to see whole families, sometimes even with toddlers in baby backpacks, going up all the way when the weather is nice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;PS: it is hence proven that one can make an article with the camera from a mobile phone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Nota Final: O Sukker Toppen (em norueguês, Monte de Açúcar, embora todos os noruegueses vos digam orgulhosos que quer dizer "Pão de Açúcar") é um montinho que fica ao lado de Aalesund e que serve de exercício pós-jantar a muitos aalesundenhos. É vulgar encontrar famílias inteiras, incluindo bebés, no topo da montanha - que tem esta vista extraordinária que aqui viram - quando o tempo está bom. Num dia limpo, acho que se consegue ver o Tibete.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;PS: fica assim provado que se pode fazer uma reportagem com um telemóvel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115368872503151373?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115368872503151373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115368872503151373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/here-you-can-see-top-of-mountain.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115273120664085979</id><published>2006-07-12T18:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-12T21:03:34.823Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;In Bali, I have no idea why, geckos sing in the night, and when they do people listen attentively to count how many times they sing. If it is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 or 11 times (11 was the number of levels on the cremation towers for dead princes), there will be good luck for the listener.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_skodje1107.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_skodje1107.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;A cada maluco a sua maluqueira. Um português percebe bem a dimensão o que quero dizer (vindos que somos de uma terra de malucos!). Imaginem que no Bali as osgas cantam. Os balineses ouvem estas cantorias com atenção, porque funcionam como uma espécie de "mal-me-quer-bem-me-quer" reptiliano. Se a osga cantar 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 ou 11 vezes, trará sorte ao feliz ouvinte. Vantagens de não terem televisão (onze é o número de patamares que as torres de cremação dos príncipes têm).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Speaking of which, I must tell you something. Imagine you are alone with your love, spending some vacation time in a beautiful setting, being treated like a king, enjoying love and life, and then comes your guide and tells you "today you are so lucky, I have actually managed to secure you a place in a cremation ritual"! Well, it sounds very strange and it is, but it is also indeed worth interrupting your love affair with life. Balinese burial rituals are amazing and actually celebrate more life than death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vasco_bali51.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vasco_bali51.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Imaginem-se que nem uns tontos, em delícia terrena com boa vida, boa comida, boa companhia, à beira da piscina. De repente chega o vosso guia e diz-vos muito excitado "consegui um lugar para vocês assistirem a um enterro". Parece estranho e é. Mas posso-vos dizer também que vale a pena interromper duas horas de vida para nos apercebermos de como os balineses tratam a morte. É uma cerimónia extraordinária que celebra tudo o que de bom há deste lado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115273120664085979?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115273120664085979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115273120664085979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/in-bali-i-have-no-idea-why-geckos-sing.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115258621666362389</id><published>2006-07-11T02:17:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-11T02:50:16.680Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;'m Portuguese, which means that I carry with me an eternal mistrust of anything that people elsewhere serve under the name of "coffee". In Portugal you can have a decent espresso even in the most indecent places. There are two reasons for a Portuguese to drink an espresso: a good reason and no reason. But in Bali I had not only a decent espresso, but also a beautiful one, as you can see. Every morning. I can still taste it. Hmm!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vasco_bali21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vasco_bali21.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Um português olha sempre com infinita desconfiança para os cafés que lhe põem defronte quando está longe de casa. Por esse mundo fora chama-se "espresso" às coisas mais extraordinárias. Bicas que, se servidas na nossa terra, seriam capazes de criar mal-entendidos vitalícios entre amigos de mama e dar direito a chamar a GNR e a pedir ordem-de-prisão. Um bom português tem duas boas razões para tomar uma bica: por tudo e por nada. E uma das coisas que mais nos faz sentir longe de casa é a ausência desse ritual. Pois olhem, no Bali não só tomei uma bica fantástica, como a tomei todos os dias e ainda por cima assim, com este aspecto xpto!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vasco_bali10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vasco_bali10.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;You have no idea how much these little lakes that are ubiquitous in Bali remind me of tea-drinking. I wish I knew why, but they do. It's a little weird, I know, and this is a little piece of the lilly lake that surrounds the dinning room, a large square area with no walls and a straw roof, where, in the bliss of morning peace, I sipped my espresso while looking at the water-lillies and thought of teas...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;@@@@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Enquanto bebia, nas minhas manhãs de Bali, a minha bica com o olhar humedecido de gratidão, era para este jardim aquático que olhava. Toda a sala de refeições é enquadrada por este jardim que a circunda e, por sua vez, serve de ancoradouro ao olhar para que se lance em direcção ao mar, que está ali à distância do atirar de uma chávena de café (vazia, claro!). Tudo servido a temperatura fisiológica, em silêncio que só é negado pelas ondas de brincadeira que o mar atira à praia. Pois.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vasco_bali02.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vasco_bali51.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115258621666362389?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115258621666362389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115258621666362389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/im-portuguese-which-means-that-i-carry.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115249034065782199</id><published>2006-07-09T23:34:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-10T00:12:20.676Z</updated><title type='text'>THE PARADIGM OF DISTANCE // O PARADIGMA DA DISTÂNCIA</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Let me tell you: the world is BIG. It is actually much bigger than the guys at the travel agencies try to make you think. But distance precludes availability and lack of availability potentiates the pleasure of going. If everything was around the corner, travelling would be BORING.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Let me share another pearl of wisdom with you: going to Bali is not boring. It's VERY far, but it is VERY worth it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vasco_bali27.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vasco_bali27.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Uma palavrinha de introdução: a próxima vez que alguém me vier com aquela história de que o mundo é uma aldeia leva com uma cadeira na cabeça. O mundo é ENORME e viajar está muito longe de ser fácil quando se trata de ir de A a B em que B seja no outro lado do sol-posto. Mas há que dizê-lo: se tudo fosse ali na esquina, viajar não teria piada nenhuma, porque o excesso de facilidade não é propriamente grande indutor de prazer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Venho agora falar de um sítio que é tão longe, tão longe, que o simples chegar é um prazer enorme. Mas depois as coisas só pioram para melhor, até se perder de todo a vontade de voltar para casa: vamos a Bali!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vasco_bali59.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vasco_bali59.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Let's start almost by the end. Above you will find Erika walking out of the most fabulous pool I've ever experienced, an inverted pyramid that - in a way - shows you in a very simple and elegant manner one big thing you should know about Bali: everything is very pretty on the edges, and very dark and interesting in the center. Below, you will find Erika below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vasco_bali16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vasco_bali16.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Comecemos pelo quase-quase fim. Em cima têm duas imagens da Erika na água. Na de cima, está a sair da piscina do nosso hotel, o fabuloso Allila Manggis. A piscina do Alila Manggis é construída de forma a deixar em nós uma mensagem que define Bali: é uma pirâmide invertida que afunda para o centro, ou seja, tal como Bali, é muito bonita e colorida nas margens e muito escura e interessante no centro. Na foto de baixo, já estamos no mar. Aqui neste mar, que fizemos neste dia em apneia, como estávamos perto das margens, as coisas eram bonitas e coloridas (ver seguidamente exemplo). Até um tubarão que passou por nós como cão por vinha vindimada era bonito e amaricado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vasco_bali03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vasco_bali03.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Colorful, heh? But hey! When you look out into the deep, Bali winks back at you with a darkness that is irresistible, like the imagined chant of a mute mermaid. The deep and the dark beckons in Bali, and leave an impression that is way more indellible than all the colorful things at its edges.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115249034065782199?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115249034065782199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115249034065782199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/paradigm-of-distance-o-paradigma-da.html' title='THE PARADIGM OF DISTANCE // O PARADIGMA DA DISTÂNCIA'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115204172810131550</id><published>2006-07-04T19:27:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-04T19:35:28.113Z</updated><title type='text'>IS IT A DESERT OR IS IT A BEACH?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;The beach is exactly like a desert but it's totally different. I'll show you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;A praia é exactamente como um deserto, só que é totalmente diferente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_alg2006943.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_alg2006943.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Like a desert, there's sand and there's sand and there's sand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Como no deserto, há areia sobre areia ao lado de areia sob areia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_alg2006941.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_alg2006941.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;But unlike a desert there are flowers. Stinging flowers but flowers nevertheless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Mas ao contrário do que se vê no deserto, há flores, tipo cacto, mas não deixam de ser flores.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_alg2006900.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_alg2006900.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Unlike the desert there is life that hopes to become. And we are there to see it happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Ao contrário do deserto, há vida com esperança de existir. E nós estamos lá para ver.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115204172810131550?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115204172810131550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115204172810131550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/07/is-it-desert-or-is-it-beach.html' title='IS IT A DESERT OR IS IT A BEACH?'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115162542745065173</id><published>2006-06-29T23:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-03T13:09:15.170Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;If you think this is the fake sea in some fjord, think again. The waves are wavy and the sea is salty and you can have more fun than you can imagine being tossed and turned in it. It's called Sueste, or Suão, the wind that comes from North Africa and makes the sea dangerous and warm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_alg2006917.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_alg2006917.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Desengane-se quem pense que este mar não tem nada para contar. Nesta foto vê-se irritado pelo vento que vem do norte de África, o Suão, que levanta o Sueste ou - de melhor lembrança - o Levante. Fica perigoso e quente. (Engraçado, conheço alguém assim...)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115162542745065173?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115162542745065173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115162542745065173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/06/if-you-think-this-is-fake-sea-in-some.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115153796082710482</id><published>2006-06-28T23:28:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-28T23:39:20.840Z</updated><title type='text'>ONCE AGAIN, SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT // OUTRO SALTINHO</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;There's one place on earth where I am really bound to. I'll show you. It's a simple place, and like all simple places, it's quickly loved and never forgotten. Everyday the tide and the wind work together to erase all signs of previous presences. Everyday I can walk on this place and know that my foot prints are the first ones of that day, and in most cases they will be the only ones. In there I forget myself, then I forget where I am, then I find myself and finally remember where I am again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;It is here that I want to bring you now...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_alg2006891.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_alg2006891.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Há praias e há praias. E há isto. Não vos vou dizer onde é, nem pensar. Nem com um pau a ameaçar-me a integridade. É uma praia longe das outras praias, onde todos os dias as marcas de quem passa - e passam tão poucos que quase não há marcas - desaparecem por conluio da maré e do vento (no Inverno, também a chuva). Quase sempre que lá vou sou o primeiro a deixar marcas, as mais das vezes o único. É a minha porta de entrada no mar, porque foi a minha porta de entrada no mar quando era tão pequenino que não sabia o que era praia, nem mar, nem o que era eu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;É esta a viagem que vamos fazer agora mesmo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115153796082710482?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115153796082710482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115153796082710482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/06/once-again-something-completely.html' title='ONCE AGAIN, SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT // OUTRO SALTINHO'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115125327234337117</id><published>2006-06-25T16:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-25T16:36:34.050Z</updated><title type='text'>BALLET &amp; OTHER NORTHERN THINGS</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;I suppose this ought to be as universal as sneezing: every year, in every corner of the so called civilized world, there are ballet school shows. In this case, here's one that happened in the Grand Norwegian North, in Aalesund, one hiccup South of the Polar Circle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_670_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_670_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Imagino que isto seja tão universal como catar o umbigo ou dizer santinho quando se espirra: todos os anos, em todas as partes do mundo dito civilizado, há saraus de ballet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Neste caso este foi em Aalesund, na Noruega, à distância de um atchim do Círculo Polar Ártico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_665_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_665_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;But of course, it goes without saying that in this part of the world there's a stuffed moose in every backstage. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Before any show is even thought of, the first item in the checklist is: "Do we have the stuffed moose in the backstage?". If not, nothing of artistic relevance can happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Aqui, nada acontece sem alces empalhados. A primeira pergunta que se coloca quando se pensa em qualquer evento artístico é: "Temos o alce empalhado?" Se sim, avança-se.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_638_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_638_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;And here's the Mayor. Without the Mayor, nothing would happen this far North.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;E eis o Presidente da Câmara. Sem o Presidente da Câmara ,,,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115125327234337117?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115125327234337117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115125327234337117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/06/ballet-other-northern-things.html' title='BALLET &amp; OTHER NORTHERN THINGS'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115099745064231932</id><published>2006-06-22T16:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-22T17:30:50.656Z</updated><title type='text'>MORE WEDDING // MAIS DO CASAMENTO</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt; I don't know... but there's a seriousness imparted by being dressed in the local traditional garb that wedding apparel just cannot have. It's like acting the part. Marriages... they have been going on for so many millennia, one has to appreciate the underlying concept. I have to tell you one day about my favorite marriage ever: mine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_708_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_708_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Que a sagrada instituição do matrimónio seja formal, é natural. Mas dizer que a sagrada matrimonização desta instituição assume contornos quase antropológicos quando os intervenientes se cobrem com trajes tradicionais, lá isso é indiscutível. É muito giro, e torna-se muito mais formal e sério, de uma forma divertida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_709_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_709_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Don't know exactly why, but every time I see an open book in a church I tend to remember, with extreme awe, a certain Herr Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, the metal-worker who decided to pave the way for universal readership.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_713_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_713_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;E cá estão eles, casados e felizes, felizes. Felizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_722.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_722.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Eu explico. Em Aalesund chove muito, verão ou inverno. Estava a chover, achei que com tanta felicidade estampada nas caras das pessoas ficava mal dar uma impressão realista de ver um monte de convivas à espera da saída dos noivos debaixo dos seus tectos portáteis e escamoteáveis (guarda-chuvas...). Fica assim uma impressão impressionista do assunto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;+++++&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;I thought it would be nicer to show all the guests waiting for the newlyweds in a way that would show the level of antecipation without showing the actual rain, that was pouring on everyone's umbrellas. In Aalesund, Summer is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_632_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_632_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;...actually nice, but sometimes it rains. Everyday...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115099745064231932?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115099745064231932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115099745064231932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/06/more-wedding-mais-do-casamento.html' title='MORE WEDDING // MAIS DO CASAMENTO'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115075971114870011</id><published>2006-06-19T22:59:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-19T23:28:31.166Z</updated><title type='text'>MORE NORTH // MAIS NORTE</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;E quem diz que as pessoas são todas iguais, devia ser enviado por correio azul para o Grande Norte para assistir a um casamento viking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;People are all the same all over the world - until it's time to get married. I should know, because I too had a viking marriage. Here's another.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_648_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_648_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Começa tudo aqui, na igreja, que nestas paragens é despojada e firme, sem rococós ou outras mariquices a que nos habituámos no catolicismo meridional.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;It all starts here, in a clean and simple church, devoid of all the gilded traps we grew accostumed to in our rococo southern catholicism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_694_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_694_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Está toda a gente sentada, bem composta, alguns vestidos de smoking, outros de fato regional tradicional, outros de roupa quase quotidiana, rabos quadrados em bancos espartanos, à espera da noiva que tarda (ora aí está um atraso universal!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;All seated in mildly sadistic benches, some in formal dress, some in regional suits, other in semi-casual clothing, waiting, waiting, waiting for the bride.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_693_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_693_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Para alguns é a primeira espera das suas vidas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;For some, it's the first waiting ever experienced.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_698_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_698_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;E cá está!    ////////       And here she is!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115075971114870011?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115075971114870011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115075971114870011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/06/more-north-mais-norte.html' title='MORE NORTH // MAIS NORTE'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115073485040873276</id><published>2006-06-19T16:22:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-19T16:34:10.423Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Comecemos pela festa de anos. É igual às nossas, só que totalmente diferente. É tudo loirinho. A Anna fez cinco anos e convidou as amigas. A actividade febril está aqui fotografada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;May we start with the birthday party. It's exactly like ours in Portugal, but totally different. Everyone is blonde, blue eyed. Anna turned five, and she invited her closest friends from kindergarten. Here's a photo that shows how calm and quiet the event was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_602_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_602_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;It's in the small differences that the big differences are anchored.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;É nas pequenas diferenças que as grandes diferenças florescem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;There's much to be said about little children's world. Actually, better shown that talked about...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_654_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_654_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;O mundo dos pequeninos é muito mais fixe que o nosso. Mas é que é mesmo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;mais virá // more to come&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115073485040873276?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115073485040873276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115073485040873276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/06/comecemos-pela-festa-de-anos.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-115005378972173120</id><published>2006-06-11T19:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-11T19:39:48.836Z</updated><title type='text'>JUMP UP, GET NORTH</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_628_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_628_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Outras paragens. Dificilmente haverá algo mais estimulante que o saltar de um lugar como o Egipto para um lugar como a Noruega. E digo-vos isto em TODOS os sentidos. Estão 6 graus em vez de 40, está tudo loiro em vez de árabe, o mar está verde em vez de azul, tudo é caríssimo em vez de inexistente. E o contraste revela mais coisas sobre mim que propriamente sobre os lugares. A noite foi-se, estamos quase na altura em que o sol não se chega a pôr. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_650_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_650_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Somewhere else indeed. Like getting into a large and not-so-fancy elevator (SAS is not as fancy as you'd expect from a Scandinavian airline company) and going north. Temperatures plummeted and prices soared. Instead of arabs there are blonds. The sea is green instead of blue, and it's raining, raining, raining. There's daylight for 24 hours, the sun sets at around midnight and get's up again at around 2,30, but even in that short period there's always too much light to call it night. Whoa!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_nor_summ06_637_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_nor_summ06_637_L.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;There's a Norwegian birthday party, and a Norwegian walk in the woods, and a Norwegian kids ballet show, and a Norwegian wedding, and other things. I'll be back.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Vamos lá a ver: vai haver uma festa de anos norueguesa, uma volta pela floresta, um sarau de ballet, um casamento norueguês e outras coisas. Já venho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-115005378972173120?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115005378972173120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/115005378972173120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/06/jump-up-get-north.html' title='JUMP UP, GET NORTH'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114984875991807166</id><published>2006-06-09T10:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-09T16:17:55.710Z</updated><title type='text'>commercial break // hora de anúncio</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114984875991807166?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114984875991807166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114984875991807166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/06/commercial-break-hora-de-anncio.html' title='commercial break // hora de anúncio'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114927658477969533</id><published>2006-06-02T19:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-02T19:29:44.803Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala464.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala464.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Time to close the window on this trip, the passport is itching to go somewhere else. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;So, here are the ratings (all ratings on a scale of 0-10, by the Method of Koppernaes-Pinhol):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Quality of access by air: 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Quality of access by land (transfers): 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Quality of hotel: 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Quality of dive center: 9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Quality of food: 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Quality of people: 9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Quality of dive sites: 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Quality of gear: 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Novelty factor: 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Wow factor: 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Repeatability factor: 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Overal rating: 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;(this scale is subjective and based on the sole opinion of the writer but will be applied to all travels included in this blog)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala451.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala451.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Bem, chegou a hora de fechar esta janela e ir à procura de outras vistas. Já sinto comichão nos pézinhos, a pedirem-me para partir para outra. Mas antes, passemos à classificação (a classificação é dada em vários items relevantes, numa escala de 0-10, pelo Método de Koppernaes-Pinhol):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Qualidade do acesso aéreo: 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Qualidade do acesso por terra (transfer): 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Qualidade do hotel: 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Qualidade do dive center: 9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Qualidade da comida: 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Qualidade das pessoas: 9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Qualidade dos locais de mergulho: 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Qualidade do material de mergulho: 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Factor novidade: 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Factor Caramba: 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Factor de repetibilidade: 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Classificação global: 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;(esta escala é subjectiva e baseada exclusivamente na opinião do autor, mas será aplicada a todas as viagens incluídas neste blog)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114927658477969533?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114927658477969533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114927658477969533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/06/time-to-close-window-on-this-trip.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114903011351175431</id><published>2006-05-30T22:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-30T23:01:53.526Z</updated><title type='text'>olhar ou ver // to look or to see</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Olhar para uma coisa e vê-la são exercícios totalmente diferentes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/marsa001_uw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/marsa001_uw.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;É esse o absurdo dom da fotografia. Quando pintamos, o que chega ao interlocutor é a interna invenção. Mas tudo o que é fotografado é apercebido como real. Por mais ilegível e remota que seja a imagem fotografada, será sempre descodificada como uma imagem de algo que existe. Com a fotografia, podemos moldar, deturpar e recriar a realidade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;To look at something can be totally different from seeing it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala368.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala368.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;That's the absolute beauty of photography. You see, and then you photograph to show that you have seen. If you were painting, it would not come across as reality. But you're photographing, so even the most ethereal or unorthodox image will be perceived as reality. Hence, with photography, you can warp and recreate reality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114903011351175431?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114903011351175431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114903011351175431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/05/olhar-ou-ver-to-look-or-to-see.html' title='olhar ou ver // to look or to see'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114882633753478960</id><published>2006-05-28T14:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-28T14:25:37.550Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Just remembered something... I've been talking about this place for some time now without thinking about the geographical challenged people that are out there. So here are some maps...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;ACabEi aGoRa de me aPercEbEr de que estou para aqui a falar de um sítio do qual se calhar 99,9% dos habitantes deste planeta nem sequer sabem onde fica. Consequentemente, aqui vão alguns mapinhas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/redsea_mapwithluxor.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/redsea_mapwithluxor.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/arabianpenins.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/arabianpenins.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/africa-.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/africa-.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/world.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/world.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/planet_solarsystem.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/planet_solarsystem.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;em caso de dúvidas adicionais // in case of additional questions: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;http://www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;ou melhor ainda!! // or better stil!!!!!: &lt;a href="http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm"&gt;http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/redsea_mapwithluxor.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114882633753478960?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114882633753478960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114882633753478960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/05/just-remembered-something.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114880945590068064</id><published>2006-05-28T09:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-28T14:01:56.586Z</updated><title type='text'>boat food need attention too...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Já vai sendo tempo de tratar a comida de bordo com a distinção que merece. A fome - diz-se - é o melhor condimento. Uma pessoa chega de uma hora debaixo de água e, acreditem, QUER COMER!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Há anos que admiro, contudo, os esforços dos cozinheiros de bordo nos barcos do Mar Vermelho para melhorar a imagem manhosa que havia da comida por eles confeccionada. Resolvi assim dar uma ajuda e fotografar a dita comida com os mesmos preceitos fotográficos que a comida dita sofisticada recebe em livros e revistas. Segue-se o resultado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;It's high time boat food in the Red Sea get the same "photographic treatment" more sophisticated food enjoy in the press. I know "hunger is the best spice" but the eyes should eat too, and the effort our boat "chefs" put into improving the boat food's image is quite endearing. So, here's to them:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala475.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala475.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Orange cuts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala476.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala476.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;tomato cuts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala477.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala477.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;salad with dressing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala484.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala484.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;meat rolls / rolinhos de carne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala483.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala483.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Freshly baked noodles / massinha ainda a fumegar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114880945590068064?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114880945590068064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114880945590068064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/05/boat-food-need-attention-too.html' title='boat food need attention too...'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114873599635227562</id><published>2006-05-27T13:04:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-27T13:19:56.373Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala372.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala372.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;There are only two real reasons to travel: to loose oneself and to find oneself. Seldom, there is the possibility of doing both in one simple, elegant, go. Some places, of course, help. It seems only logical to do so here: there's the desert to find oneself. And there's the sea to forgo our epicentered selves. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;The endless repetition of dusty dust and sandy sand looses it's appeal in less time than it takes to think about it. Soon all dunes, little and big, seem to be versions of one single and essential dune. All ragged mountains seem an endless repetition of the same ragged mountain. One handful of dust, now and forever, undistinguishable of all handfuls of dust. For lack of stimuli, one is forced to look inward. In the desert - I think - you better enjoy your own company, because you'll have lots of it. You'll find yourself, even if you try to avoid it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;And then, there's the sea. Ah!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/marsa005_uw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/marsa005_uw.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114873599635227562?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114873599635227562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114873599635227562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/05/there-are-only-two-real-reasons-to.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114867179571364748</id><published>2006-05-26T19:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-26T19:48:51.966Z</updated><title type='text'>undervann fotografi</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Enfim, como vim aqui fotografar debaixo de água, está na altura de mostrar alguma coisita...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/FINAL.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/FINAL.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Well, since I came here to photograph underwater, it's high time to show something. And to talk about the place (underwater)...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/marsa006_uw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/marsa006_uw.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Marsa-Alam is, indeed, the "Red Sea as it once was". I am actually staying about 60 km above the city of Marsa-Alam, and we are within reach of a very large proportion of the best diving spots in the South Red Sea, which happen to be some of the very best spots in the whole Red Sea and actually are some of the best diving spots in the wHoLe wOrLd!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala599.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala599.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Não vos irritais de ver desenhos manhosos. As digitais ainda não me convencem debaixo de água, mas ainda não me convencem mesmo. E embora tenha uma máquina xpto para fotografar digitalmente à superfície, durante a viagem não posso mostrar fotos subaquáticas no blog e a tempo real, porque só fotografo com filmes, para ser mais preciso, com filmes de diapositivos (ainda gostava de saber quem foi o maricas afrancesado que arranjou esta expressão para o "slide film"). Durante a viagem, portanto, não posso ver as fotos que fiz debaixo de água (este blog está agora a ser publicado com textos que fiz na altura, mas na realidade já estou em terra, de volta a casa), pelo que - quando o enfado é muito - pinto aguarelas manhosas com peixinhos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala592.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala592.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;What I've written above, summarized in a lighter version is: "he who takes underwater photography seriously cannot yet use digital cameras. He who does not use underwater digital cameras cannot enjoy the instant gratification of seeing the %#"%#$ photos he has managed to take. He who cannot enjoy such gratification paints %#$"% paintings of the nice fish he has photographed"...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114867179571364748?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114867179571364748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114867179571364748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/05/undervann-fotografi.html' title='undervann fotografi'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114779743166680997</id><published>2006-05-16T16:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-20T14:01:03.696Z</updated><title type='text'>FOTOS</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala350.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala350.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;sunset in Coral Beach // Pôr-do-sol em Coral Beach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala352.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala352.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Full moon in Coral Beach // Lua cheia em Coral Beach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala382.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala382.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;The boat trip to the dive site is awfully stressful // A viagem de barco para o local de mergulho é muito stressante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala365.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala365.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;E aproveita-se o tempo para redigir o testamento // And the time can be used to write one's will&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala358.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala358.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Isto é a Vanessa, que já tinha redigido o testamento, portanto faz desenhos // This is Vanessa, she's written her will before, so she's allowed to do drawings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala389.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala389.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Nalgumas pessoas, a reacção ao stress é paradoxal // In some people, reaction to stress can be paradoxical&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;(This is Andi and Stefan in deep stress)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala363.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala363.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Este é o nosso capitão, responsável por casamentos e grande conhecedor dos mares do Sul // This is our captain, power of law on board, can marry people, extract teeth and cooks a mean fish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala384.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala384.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;E isto é outra clara manifestação de stress. Há também quem assobie // Here's another clear manifestation of the awful stress felt at sea in South Egypt (in this case, it's An and Tanya). Some people whistle instead&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala359.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala359.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;...há várias horas que sentíamos que algo nos seguia... // ...we had been feeling followed for hours...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114779743166680997?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114779743166680997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114779743166680997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/05/fotos.html' title='FOTOS'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114762178898978809</id><published>2006-05-14T15:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-20T14:12:04.116Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala340.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala340.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/english_flag.1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/english_flag.1.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Full moon in the desert. Impressive country, this is. Along the coast, sand, dust, dusty sand, sandy dust and then the sea that even in darkness brings light to the imagination. Impressive too for its network of highways, from nowhere to no-place and everywhere in between. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala350.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;It’s 4,30 AM and we are rolling down south, from Hurghada to Marsa-Alam, far beyond the speed limit, on a dark road on a land that is barren beyond comprehension. Suddenly the driver swerves left to avoid hitting a huge owl (“Muma”, he says quietly) standing on the middle of the road. It was the size of a large dog.&lt;br /&gt;At 5 AM, we cross Qu’Sair. My driver Ahmadha politely asks for a “ten minute stop”, gets out of the car and into sheesha bar that, despite being dawn, is full. There’s movement everywhere, contradicting my tiredness and what my wristwatch tells me. We start again, and dive into the desert once more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala346.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala346.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala346.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/portuguese_flag.2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/portuguese_flag.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Já ninguém sabe lidar com fluidez com o iniciático. Tudo é para ser rápido, de fácil absorção. Contudo, poucas são as coisas boas na vida às quais se chega sem algum nível de desconforto. E a fome – diz-se – é o melhor condimento. No final de 210 km de deserto (atenção que aqui, tal como nas estradas secundárias da escandinávia, as distâncias não se medem em km como nós fazemos, mas sim em horas), digo, no final de 2,30 h de deserto, sinto já ter passado por desconforto suficiente para que se abram as portas de qualquer revelação. E abrem: chegamos a Marsa-Alam, ao “dive-hotel” que baptizaram de forma anti-climática como “Coral Beach”. O Coral Beach Dive Hotel não tem coral, nem tem beach, mas é um jardim onde os sentidos se deleitam para se prepararem para a entrada no mundo onírico dos recifes de coral do sul do Mar Vermelho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala343.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala343.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala343.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala339.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala339.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala339.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala344.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala344.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala344.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/english_flag.2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/english_flag.2.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Sometimes there are people that will cross your path and will forever change your ideas on people. Meet Philippe and Martina. They will reshape forever your idea of what managers of a Dive Operation should be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala349.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala556.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/vpinhol_marsala556.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/vpinhol_marsala349.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/portuguese_flag.2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/portuguese_flag.3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/portuguese_flag.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Olhem, por vocês não sei, mas por mim, já estou farto de Chefes de Operação nos centros de mergulho que olham para nós como se fossemos gado (ovinos, para produção de carne). No Coral Beach não há disso. Há disto. Aqui estão o Philippe e a Martina, duas pessoas a sério, daquelas, sabem?...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114762178898978809?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114762178898978809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114762178898978809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/05/full-moon-in-desert.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114752971166026266</id><published>2006-05-13T14:10:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-20T14:14:18.596Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/IMG00298.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/IMG00298.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/portuguese_flag.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/portuguese_flag.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Gosto imenso de andar de avião. Desde pequenino. Fascina-me a ideia de sair de um sítio, cortar os ares por um bocadinho e chegar logo a seguir a outro sítio, as mais das vezes tão longe que só de pensar em fazer a distância de bicicleta faz doer as perninhas (se for a nado, a doer os bracinhos também). Quando comecei a andar de avião, era tão pequenino que andava à trela ou, quando não era à trela, punham-me um saquinho de plástico ao pescoço, com uma bolsa transparente onde tinha o meu nome e “em caso de encontrar este menino, favor contactar...” e era assim enviado para sítios. Nessa altura as hospedeiras eram MUITO GIRAS! Estávamos nos anos 60, no tempo das mini-saias e das super-pestanas, e a TAP era conhecida por ser a empresa do país com maior índice de divórcios na força laboral (que para além de laborar, pelos vistos, fazia força de outras formas). Viajar de avião era especial e toda a sua envolvente levava o viajante a sentir-se especial. Entretanto cresci e a distância ao banco da frente encolheu. A comida passou a ser incomestível e as casas de banho passaram a ser como as das bombas de gasolina. Viaja-se menos bem, mas viaja-se muito mais. Mas, estranhamente, perdeu-se a sofisticação em vez desta medrar onde não havia. Não me lembro nunca de ouvir os passageiros bater palmas ao piloto (excepto nas aterragens no aeroporto do Funchal, mas acho que aí até o piloto batia palmas a ele próprio, com as mãos suadas). Mas mesmo com mau café e cheiro a pé, nada se compara à sensação de, por exemplo, perseguir o pôr do sol horas a fio voando na direcção de Nova Iorque, ou de, neste caso, saber que entre uma linha e outra, terei de parar de escrever, apertar o cinto de segurança, e pousar tão longe de casa, na terra que já não é dos faraós.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/IMG00299.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/IMG00299.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/english_flag.0.png"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/english_flag.0.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;There is a certain &lt;i&gt;je ne sais quoi&lt;/i&gt; in travelling with fellow divers. Most of the trip is spent by most trying to prove to others that they are better divers and exponentially more seasoned in this travelling-for-diving thing. Duh. &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;But there are great atypical things going on in this world. Take this plane, for example: it’s a chartered plane, from a sub-airline Egyptian company called Air Memphis. The seats are spartan and the distance in between seats assumes that nobody should claim the right to be taller than 1,60 m. But the crew is awfully friendly and we HAVE A FEMALE co-pilot. An Egyptian female co-pilot. I saw it! I glanced at the front window when entering the plane (no traveller in his right mind resists trying to see who’s going to be responsible for his life in the next five and half hours) and my first thought was: “There’s a nun in the cockpit! What is a nun doing in the cockpit!?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-: EN-GBfont-family:'Times New Roman';" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;There she was, looking fierce in her djalaba(?). Whoa! Eat your heart mr. Bush! (actually, eat my meal which is totally unedible)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114752971166026266?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114752971166026266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114752971166026266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/05/gosto-imenso-de-andar-de-avio.html' title=''/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27870658.post-114727120258435482</id><published>2006-05-10T14:20:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-20T14:15:57.200Z</updated><title type='text'>Vou ali e já volto</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/index_08.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;once upon a time the world was a very-very-very-very large place...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;(...and it still is).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;the age of notebooks is gone (i know, i know, &lt;a href="http://www.moleskine.com/eng/default.htm"&gt;moleskine&lt;/a&gt; is forever), but the age of notebooks [hi, :-) vaio!] is here. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;and so am i. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;i travel to see&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;i see therefore i am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/bilingual.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/bilingual.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/bilingual.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;"&gt;Well, this is probably a weird idea, but if you really want to know... this blog will be bilingual. There is absolutely no reason why all those Portuguese-challenged people would have to hire the services of an expensive translation office to have these rants translated into a more congenial language. So, here it is. I do not promise that everything that I’ll write in Portuguese will turn up in the English version or vice-versa, but that, my friends, will hopefully be charming instead of exasperating.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/1600/009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/portuguese_flag.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;Primeira Viagem deste Travel Log - &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;LX - MsAm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;nem toda a gente sabe o que quer dizer LX. para os menos informados, informo: trata-se de lisboa (lixe boa? lixa boa? mas quem foi que inventou isto?). do outro lado da equação lisboa + aeroporto + avião está msam, que toda a gente sabe que é marsa alam. esta será a primeira viagem com honras de logue-blogue. o logue-blogue (em inglês log-blog) é como o yé-yé e o ping-pong ou o yo-yo, só que é totalmente diferente. pois&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#ff9900;"&gt;POIS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Ok. Já tenho um monte de mails a dizerem-me que vou ali e vou aqui e vou sei-lá-acolá. Que vou ter quarto a partir da horatal do diatal e, como não é natal, que não pense que não é para usar a piscina. Egipto, Marsa-Alam, um pontinho no deserto que até há bem pouco tempo nem sequer qualificava como buraco. Segundo o que vejo, nas poucas referências que encontro na net, podia-se trazer para aqui o slogan que vende a Croácia na CNN: "Marsa-Alam, Red Sea as it once was". Por enquanto é uma coisa vaga, esta viagem. Ainda estou a montante do massacre aéreo, tenho o saco de mergulho que faz as vezes de &lt;em&gt;necessaire&lt;/em&gt; estacionado no meio da garagem. Que raio de actividade mais estapafúrdia, esta da fotografia subaquática. É que consegue essa coisa modernaça de complicar o complicado. Pega-se numa actividade vetusta pela sua complexidade (mergulho), adiciona-se outra actividade patusca pela sua complicação (fotografia) e obtém-se esta patologia para a qual até à data ninguém encontrou cura. (Olha, não me tinha lembrado, se calhar é isso, é preciso um Cura que me faça um exorcismo...) O saco tem o equipamento de mergulho estritamente necessário e um monte de adereços fotográficos estritamente necessários. Tem o tamanho de um homem pequeno, pesa quase tanto como uma mulher grande e, de roupa terrestre só lá cabem dois fatos de banho e duas t-shirts. Fininhas. Junte-se uma mochila de fotografia (designação eufemística para designar uma mochila almofadada e reforçada que pesará uns 25 kg) e uma mala de mão para transporte dos strobes e temos a receita completa para o sarilho no momento do check-in (chequinho, em português). Duh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/320/_VSP5300.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5517/2942/200/english_flag.png" border="0" /&gt;FIRST TRIP ON THIS BLOG _MARSA ALAM_SOUTHERN EGYPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;color:#cccccc;"&gt;I must be out of my mind. Who am I trying to fool? The airport authorities will be quietly summoned and I'll be quietly removed from the main check-in lobby and shot on the spot. I can hear the Surgeon General saying."Diving can be hazardous to your health" and now I know exactly why. I am sure you could fit a small sized man or a whole family of pigmies in my dive-bag. Erika, help!! (Erika is my beloved and bewitching wife, and the owner of that beautiful eye in the picture above - the rest, believe me, is better!) Erika is my model and my dive buddy and also doubles as the "partner-in-crime" when it comes to flying with alarmingly oversized and overweight luggage, but she cannot come on this trip - I'll get to that later on. So I am left with no-one to blame except the comical evolution of western civilization, which has provided me with the modern tools to mount this photographical expedition in an era that has seen the loss of such amenities as large numbers of cheaply paid porters with self feeding mules. And now what?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;travel blog of Portuguese photographer-writer vasco pinhol&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27870658-114727120258435482?l=vouali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114727120258435482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27870658/posts/default/114727120258435482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vouali.blogspot.com/2006/05/vou-ali-e-j-volto.html' title='Vou ali e já volto'/><author><name>VOU ALI E JÁ VOLTO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02271212760013602886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
