six plus thirty

7 august 2013

. . . and eating at Sara's Thai cuisine and having another sip at Trago Lounge on Friday 2 Aug and visiting the beautiful little town of Alresford and the Jane Austen's house museum in Chawton and having a special lamb roast with roast potatoes cooked by them on Saturday 3 Aug and going grocery shopping then picking strawberries and raspberries on a farm near Christchurch and afterwards going for a walk and an ice cream at Avon beach, Mudeford, and coming back home to their fourth barbecue of the summer and wrapping up the night listening to Diana Krall's amazing jazz they celebrated six plus 30 months or three years together . . .

. . . e jantando no restaurante tailandês Sara's e tomando mais um drinque no Trago Lounge na sexta-feira 2 de agosto e indo visitar a linda cidade de Alresford e a casa museum da Jane Austen em Chawton e jantando um assado de carneiro especial com batatas douradas feitos por eles no sábado 3 de agosto e indo ao supermercado e depois colhendo morangos e framboesas nos campos perto de Christchurch e em seguida fazendo uma caminhada na praia e tomando sorvete em Avon Beach, Mudeford, e voltando para casa para preparar o quarto churrasco do verão e mais tarde fechar a noite curtindo o sensational jazz da Diana Krall eles comemoraram seis mais trinta meses ou três anos juntos . . .

Londres: Sebastião Salgado & Tim Burgess & Lambchop

3 july 2013

Já estive na linda Londres, que adoro, não sei nem quantas vezes. Mas sempre que vou tenho duas alegrias: uma por estar indo para aquela cidade que é um poço sem fundo de coisas sensacionais pra gente ver ou fazer; a outra alegria é que não moro lá. Acho cansativo o trânsito e o movimento intenso do monte de gente, o metrô lotado em certas horas do dia, com algumas estações tão grandes que a gente tem que caminhar um bocado mesmo dentro delas. Isso não me atrai mesmo como projeto de vida. Gosto de conforto e um pouco de lentidão.

E então que no domingo, 23 de junho, fomos para Londres, mais uma vez, com uma programação super:

1. Fomos direto para o Museu de Historia Natural [Natural History Musem - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/index.html] visitar a exposição Genesis, do brilhante fotógrafo brasileiro Sebastião Salgado. A exposição fica aberta até o dia 8 de Setembro de 2013 e é imperdivel para quem aprecia fotografia, o trabalho do Salgado, ou tem amor pelo nosso planeta. É uma viagem entre os continentes em imagens em preto e branco de paisagens, vida selvagem, e comunidades remotas. A entrada custa 10 libras. Paguei 5 libras com minha carteira de estudante. Atenção: se você for visitar apenas o museum, a entrada é gratis. No site do museu tem um link para um vídeo sobre a exposição. Vale a pena assistir.

2. Depois do café com torta no café do museu fomos para o Soho, direto para a loja de CDs e DVDs e livros Fopp, em Covent Garden. Loja ótima, com muitos títulos e promoções tentadoras.

3. Ainda em Covent Garden, jantamos no Maxwell’s bar & grill, que existe desde 1972 e serve um burger muito gostoso. A música é alta e vibrante.

4. E tomamos mais um metrô, dessa vez para o Barbican pro show do Tim Burgess, de Manchester, com abertura [support band] da banda americana Lambchop. Lambchop é uma banda de Nashville, Tennessee, com raízes no country alternativo, hoje com uma influência feliz do jazz na música que eles fazem. Kurt Wagner, vocalista à frente da Lambchop, convidou Tim Burgess para cantar com ele. Depois eles voltaram ao palco no show do Tim, que faz música alternative, indie rock e Britpop. Os dois shows foram sensacionais. Sensacionais!!!

5. Tudo terminou às 22.40hrs, trinta minutos depois do previsto. Domingo de noite, metrôs em manutenção e serviço limitado. Esse quadro fez a gente, apesar de correr o quanto pode, perder o trem de 23:35hrs. Entramos na estação de Waterloo exatamente nesse minuto em que o trem saia. Paciência. Fomos tomar café, sentar abrigados do frio e esperar pelo próximo trem, a 1.05 da manhã de segunda-feira. Foi um trem lento, parando em tudo quanto é de vilarejo na noite gelada. Descemos em Basingstoke, onde tínhamos deixado o carro exatamente para agilizar a volta com horários de trem, e dirigimos de volta a Southampton. Quando mirei a cama para desmaiar no sono dos justos o relógio despertador acusava 3.07hrs da manhã.

6. Na segunda-feira de manhã minha pessoa não respondia a nada, dormi até umas 8.30hrs e só depois pude despertar para voltar ao mundo real, do serviço e da disciplina.

Domingo maravilhoso em Londres. Maravilhoso!!!

o batente transatlântico

17 may 2013

Steve, Eliane, Benilde, Kalina, Venicio. at Trago Lounge, Southampton, UK.

Passei agora mais de três meses em Teresina, onde retomei minhas atividades de trabalho. Revi muita gente do coração. Tive muitas, muitas distrções do meu serviço da tese. Consegui, na medida da concentração e produção possíveis, revisar os capítulos 2, 4 e 5. Trabalhei mais um bocado no capítulo 6, quando entendi que a análise dos dados coletados vai ficar mais organizada e coerente se for dividida em dois capítulos diferentes, atendendo às questões de pesquisa. 

Trabalhei muitas horas, como sempre, com a constante e cansativa sensação de que deveria estar fazendo mais. Seguindo a sugestão de uma pessoa amiga, e como forma de fechar o ciclo de trabalho no Brasil, apresentei todo o trabalho para três amigas, professoras da area de linguística aplicada. Preparei uma apresentação em power point de toda a pesquisa, inclusive com conclusão preliminar.

A apresentação foi no CEUT, onde também a Professora Maria Helena gentilmente me permitiu estudar numa das salas de orientação. Minha querida amiga Fatima Lima organizou a apresentação e convidou a Luciana Eulalio e a Rivanda Medeiros para se juntatem a nós e assistirem e criticarem / comentarem / argumentarem sobre o que fiz até agora. Isso me deixou com um panomara claro na cabeça, e no papel, do que fiz no Brasil, do quanto avancei, e do que ainda teria pela frente para fazer na tese. Sensacional!!! Foi um previlégio poder passar por essa oportunidade de ‘dar a cara a tapa’, mesmo. O resultado dentro de mim foi maior do que eu pensava. O preparo do power point, o preparo para apresentar o material e toda a concentração me trouxeram um retorno tão gratificante, uma sensação feliz de conquista, que nos dias que se seguiram à apresentação, ainda no Brasil, não senti mais necessidade de trabalhar na tese. Apenas organizei o que precisa trazer comigo para dar continuidade aqui. 

Depois da apresentação ainda conversamos um bocado. Em seguida, Fatima precisou ir dar aula, e Luciana, Rivanda e eu fomos para o Coco Bambu, onde conversamos até quase meia noite. Muito, muito bom.

E chegou o dia de voltar para a Inglaterra. Vim com minha mãe e meu irmão Venício. Entramos na Inglaterra, viemos para Southampton e ficamos aqui três dias. Pegamos o eurostar para Paris, onde passamos três dias. Pegamos um trem para Bruxelas, onde ficamos dois dias. Pegamos outro trem, de novo o eurostar, para Londres, onde ficamos mais dois dias. Voltamos para Southampton, por mais cinco dias, com saídas para visitar várias cidades por aqui por perto e umas comprinhas e coisa e tal. Viagem mágica, em companhias maravilhosas, visitando paisagens inesquecíveis, sofrendo em filas parisienses, e por aí vai, mas tudo muito bom e relaxado. Um luxo! Eles voaram de volta para o Brasil domingo passado, dia 12. 

Na segunda-feira, dia 13, retomei oficialmente minha pesquisa no escritório na universiade e hoje encerro essa primeira semana com vários reencontros felizes. Ontem tive supervisão com minha orientadora. Mostrei para ela a apresentação que tinha mostrado no Brasil para as meninas. Ela gostou muito de ver essa síntese do trabalho. Conversamos por quase 90 minutos sobre o que vem pela frente: muuuito trabalho. Eu tinha mandado dois capitulos (4 e 5) para ela ler. Eu os considerava concluídos, no ponto de serem apenas incluídos no texto final da tese. Doce engano! Ela fez várias recomendações para eu trabalhar no material, e também diminuir / enxugar os capítulos, que estão longos demais. Aqui a tese total deve ter em torno de 75.000 palavras. Portanto, a luta pelo equilíbrio nesse limite está em todos os capítulos e no conteúdo a ser apresentado.

E assim concluo a primeira semana. Com noites frias, manhãs frias, um sol que ensaia um sorriso mas se recolhe, porque dona chuva quer chover, numa primavera tímida e que tem dificuldade de dar tchau de vez ao inverno. A gente vai levando; vai levando até bem.

Mas tenho pensado muito em Drummond nos últimos três dias porque agora tem uma pedra no meio do caminho. No meio do caminho tem uma pedra. Mas a gente segue, com fé em Deus.

on the road: highcliffe beach

19 june 2011



mike and i went for a great and relaxing walk by highcliffe beach , part of the Christchurch borough, today. the day was windy and a bit chilly, but worth all the while. i needed the fresh air to clear my lungs and to relax. in addition to the beauty of the place there is the beauty of the country roads, which i like so much. on our way back we stopped by the walhampton arms for a sunday roast. that was another fair treat.

new year's curry in winchester

about last night 7 may 2011



photo 1: the starter; photo 2: maudie, marie, and jc; photo 3: the cuties

mike and I met with steven at the train station and traveled together to winchester for our 2010 – 2011 new year’s curry at the nepalese and indian restaurant gurkha chef.

we were ten for the night: from the uk: mike (welsh), and the english ones: johnny, jc, marie, steven, the team leader maudie, and warren; and the foreigners murielle and celine (both French), and myself with my verde amarelo branco azul anil heart. In other words, we were ten people, with four nationalities, and from three different languages.

winchester greeted us with rain, but we carried on walking to fulfil our protocol, which is pub – restaurant – pub. Then, we head home. I want to make a point that now I understand better the itinerary that really gives everyone opportunities to interact with various of us.

the pub was the hyde tavern, a cozy but not so comfortable one. I had diet coke and a small glass of their- not-so-special house wine. at the pub I had a chat with murielle. she is french, from a small island near mauritius island. she is a chemist, lives near here, but will move soon to germany, relocated to work there. we talked about this and also about phd life and about brazil. she asked me how my research is going. i smiled and she smiled back, sharing the inherent sticks and stones we come across throughout the process. a friend of murielle’s came by her place and took away her tv when she was doing her phd so that murielle would have one less distraction and could concentrate properly on the duties. later on the friend threatened to take away her phone if she kept spending hours talking to people. we had a good laugh.

then we went to gurkha chef, the nepalese and indian restaurant. i had pork palak (barbequed pork with pork cooked in spinach, tomatoes and onions) with mushroom rice for dinner. i also tried mike’s food, as usual. it was all very good. at the restaurant i the chat was about travelling, mostly with steven, mike, and murielle.

after food food food and chat chat chat we left the restaurant. murielle and celine went home, the others went to another pub. mike and i walked back to the train station to get the 12.07 train to southampton, because it comes by the train station near his place. on our way back both to the station in winchester and in southampton we walk in the rain again. we waited for a while at the train station sitting in a bench and talking: precious moments. this was a much expected rain that did many things: it washed away my makeup and my blow dried hair, as well as some pollen from the trees. i think the long and quiet rain also cleansed both southampton and winchester and gave them a lighter, greener, and more beautiful view. it was so lovely to walk in the rain.

we finally got into the train and back home sometime around 1am today. What a night.

on the road: hamble

29 apr 2011

Hamble is a small village located 6.2 miles southeast of Southampton. its official name is Hamble-le-Rice. there was aircraft centre in hamble during ww ii for planes.

we walked around the village, by the water front at river hamble, had an ice cream, and were headed to the hamble common. there were many people at the pubs and at the Common celebrating the royal wedding. after that we walked in the other direction, towards the port hamble marina, where we found many beautiful and expensive yachts.

river hamble is home to sailing yachts, and all types of recreational boating and motorboats. They have a school of yachting there. i was much impressed by the boat taxi and the ferry to warsash, another small village just to the other side of the river. if the boat takes you from one river bank to the other it is a ferry. so far i had only the idea of a ferry as in the large ferry boats which go to the isle of wight or the one i took once from salvador to itaparica, in bahia, brazil.

the small and beautiful village is very close to southampton. it is a nice place to spend a couple of hours walking around. in the summer the village attracts many tourists to enjoy the water.

switzerland - uk, flying back home

about mon 11 apr 2011

public transportation in switzerland (or in the cities i have been to and used them) is punctual, modernised, and the service is excellent; but too expensive. the way it is planned makes it very easy for a novice in town to use the service, because it is very well sign posted. they have trams!!! i love the trams, especially the very old ones, like the ones i saw in vienna.

well well but time arrived for me to fly back home to the uk and there we were again on the road. fran took me back to the airport of geneva and stayed until the very last minute she could before i had to go to my departure gate, which was B34. the airport in geneva is small and it all went smooth and easy, despite the long queue for security control. they have a passport control there, too. went through all these and got to my gate, ready to fly, very happy for the unforgetable trip. i flew swiss, and was pleased with this excellent airline.

i had bought a ticket to travel back from heathrow to southampton with national express at 6.30pm, as i knew my flight was scheduled to arrive in london at 4.05, and the time we spend there until we get our luggage is unpredictable. i was so lucky everything went again so smooth i got to the airport central bus station in time to get the 4.30 coach to southampton. i went to the coach platform and handed my ticket to the driver: 'your ticket is for the 6.30 bus. i can't take you.' he said
'why not? oh please take my in your bus'.
'no, i can't. you'll have to wait for your coach.'
i insisted: 'really? you can take me in your coach now.' i knew the bus was nearly empty. the driver asked to wait aside for 10 minutes and then he would see if he could help me. i said 'yes, i'll wait here and you please don't forget me.'
less than three minutes later he turned to me and said 'come on, love.'
you can imagine my grateful smile to the man. i was in southampton about 6.45. yes!!!

switzerland: nyon

about sunday 10 apr 2011

after montreux didier, fran and i visited Nyon. nyon is a beautiful city 25 kilometers from geneva. its population is of about 19,000, and it is located between lausanne and geneva. it is very close to cheserex, where fran and didier live. fran goes to work in geneva monday to friday through nyon, where she gets the train.

beautiful and cultural city, again, with much history to it. because the days have been sunny there are lots of people everywhere. no one wants to stay indoors when there is the light of the sun. i like it very much. we walked around and had a drink at a bar, of course, outdoors. they have a jazz festival in nyon every year. fran told me you have to be very clever to get tickets to the concerts because they are sold out shortly after they are made available.

the signs.

switzerland: montreux & cooking

about sunday 10 april 2011

l'amour au bord du leman
one more thing about montreux i would like to share here: the countless couples who spend hours by the lake, some in silence, some chatting, some cuddling, some eating, some dreaming, all in love.

le plat du jour
we went back home and to eat le plat du jour. it was a very sophisticated grilled lamb with mushroom sauce and risoto and vegetables on the side, all prepared by my dear fran. the woman knows the tricks! red wine to help taste the banquet and to spice up our chat.

fondant au chocolat was the dessert. God save my soul for i have been in sin. amem!

switzerland: montreux

about sunday 10 apr 2011
it took me long to decide on the few photos from the trip to montreux to post here. the whole trip, the amazing cities we passed by on our way to montreux and the city itself are incredibly charming and beautiful. oh, so beautiful! yes, nature was generous to switzerland. i will now post the photos here so that they translate a bit what i experienced on the 10th of april with my friend fran and her husband didier:
- a taste of the place where the famous music festival has happened for decades - beautiful people - a gorgeous sunny day - breathtaking mountains - a long and relaxing walking by lac leman - and some refreshing ice cream to wrap up. what a trip!!!

this is the Nestle head office. we passed by it on the way to Montreux.



the Grand Hotel du Lac is very charming. it is close to Lac Leman in Montreux.




view from the car. getting to the lake front we can already appreciate the swiss alps.



people everywhere enjoying the sunny day. one of the cafes by the lake front.

fancy a boat ride?

 

these flats face the lake. i sent out the papers to rent one for the summer.

 

Fran is an old and very good friend of mine. we probably met around 1992, when i started working at yazigi as an english teacher. she taught french there. she had already lived in switzerland as a young girl with her aunt raimunda. she has now been living in switzerland for a good number of years, but every time she went back to brazil and i was there we got together. we have followed up on the events of our lives all this time. she has three kids: martina, who lives in geneva and studies law, and igor and gabriela, who are now living in brazil. i had a great time catching up with my friend and travelling around with her and her adorable husband, didier. martina is doing great and  speaks an impecable french. fran and didier live in cheserex - in a lovely and large apartment - with didier's two boys from his previous marriage.

switzerland: road and street signs

about switzerland 8 - 11 apr 2011

can anyone please tell me why i like road and street signs so much? wherever i go i take photos of those things all the time. i like it in switzerland as they give some information about the person who the road is named after. don't miss out the road sign in both french and german: Lausannegasse. how cool is it?

switzerland: fribourg & cooking

about saturday 9 april 2011

after the moleson mountain in gruyeres we visited this beautiful city called fribourg. i think all cities in switzerland are beautiful. on the way to fribourg we again passed by some small towns driving throught the perfectly paved swiss roads. in fribourg we walked around town, sat by a cafe where didier and fran had coca cola and i had two cups of tea, one of green and one of verbena tea to fight a massive headache i had.

as i had predicted, the tea saved my day. we walked around to appreciate the day, the many people in the streets, mostly because of the good weather, and the old buildings of the city and the spring flowers already blossoming everywhere. the photos will never be capable of showing the real beauty of any place. just like life itself, to feel the taste and the colours, one has to travel and interact with the atmosphere. when we travel we see so much more than can be registered in a photograph or in a blog entry. in other words, life cannot be that manageable, it cannot be all expressed in words or images, it is to be lived, experienced; and from each one's experience different colours may be reported. i just started thinking now about the point in posting photos and trying to say words which i feel are not enough or fully truthful to what i saw. here again i need to face limitations and work around them.

when we got back home fran decided to cook a special dinner for us: salmon with spinach and feta cheese in a puff pastry wrap. it goes in the oven for about 25 minutes and then you need to grill it. on top of the big wrap she poured a curry sauce. on the side we had rice. and wine. it was soooo good! it is all very easy to do.

for dessert we prepared this apple pie, but to be eaten tomorrow only. fran taught to cook those things. she is such a talented and creative cook. she is also well organised and does a lot in quite a short time. i was much impressed.

switzerland: le moleson mountain, gruyeres

about saturday 9 april 2011

didier, fran, and i went to moleson mountain, in gruyeres, the city of the cheese with the same name. again it was a beautiful spring day. we went up in a nice and modern telepheric. we stayed up there for nearly two hours, appreciating the breathtaking landscape. the swiss alps are really very special. moleson mountain is also a good option for skiing.

there weren't many people around that day and the restaurant was actually closed. we didn't care. all we wanted was to appreciate nature and take photos, many photos. on the way to the city of gruyeres we pass by so many beautiful little towns. we also see many vinyards along the road. what a beauty switzerland is! it is a highly organised country, where everything is planned to happen and to remain orderly. it is unbelievably expensive, too. but the point here is the unforgetable beauty of the alps and the peace we experience up in the mountains.

switzerland: geneva at night

about friday 8 april 2011

as i said in the last post, i got off the bus, met with fran and went back to the 'missao brasileira', where she works. it is a brazilian diplomatic mission in geneva. there we ate our food: i had quinoa salad and a slice od salmon pizza. my food was very good. she had a tomato and cheese with basil salad and chicken. it was about 5pm and we were hungry from a long day.

we left the 'missao do brasil' later on and walked again around other parts of the city and through different parks. it felt great to be in a safe place where you can just walk wherever and be certain the chances of having something bad (violence) to happen to you are very slim. well, i even played this giant chess at the park. geneva is just as beautiful at night. i love the night lights and to see life taking another pace. we walk still a lot until we got to cuba cafe. it is the place fran and didier had their second date. *memories*. we went with some light drinks; i tried passion fruit beer - very very good. i also had panache, called shandy here in the uk, it is a mix of carbonated lemonade and beer. i had never had in the uk and really like the drink. it gives the beer a special taste and i suspect it might make it easier for some people who are not so fond of beer to have it, because the taste of the carbonated lemonade plays a trick.

two other brazilian girls joined us for the night. aparecida, from bahia - brazil, is married to a spaniard, had two kids and has been living in switzerland for ten years. luciene, from rio de janeiro, is married to a swiss man and has a 2-year old boy. she two has been living in switzerland for ten years. luciene was driving and stayed at cuba cafe for a while and chatted and chatted and chatted about so many things.

then we were headed for this brazilian / latino party happening at 'paquis', a neighbourhood in geneva. part of the way we did on a tram and got to a car park for luciene's car. at the party i was amazed: i had never seen such a massive concentration of brazilians in one single space abroad in my life. i had no idea they were that many in switzerland. we stayed there until nearly 2am. the music was great and inviting to dance, but i was really very tired at that point. on the way back home i fell asleep in the car. they all live in cities very close to geneva. luciene drove us all home. what a start!!!

switzerland: first great impressions

about friday 8 april 2011

and now i start finally posting about my fantastic trip to switzerland. i need to say it has been very difficult to choose which photos to post because they are so many great photos.

initial trip costs
£   18.50 return national express coach ticket southampton - heathrow; heathrow - southampton
£ 119.00 return ticket to switzerland: flying swiss, heathrow - geneva; geneva - heathrow. the ticket included health and baggage insurance

i left southampton in the 1.30am coach to london heathrow terminal 1. my flight was at 7.30am. at the geneva airport the immigration lady asked if i spoke any french, 'parlez-vous francais?' to which i responded 'un peu', and added (using finger gestures) 'je reste ici trois jours'. right away she asked: 'et apres?' i said that after the three days i was going to return to england, where i live and am a phd student, more or less like this: 'apres je rentre a angleterre, ou je suis une etudiante de phd'. the woman opened a wide smile, and stamped my passport. i smiled back and left.

my dear friend fran was waiting for me at the arrival gate. big hugs and greetings and we took the bus to city. first stop was at manor, this immense department store with whatever you may want (i suppose). there we had a fantastic breakfast at the terrace area, as it was a sunny and nice day. then we walked around town for about four hours and i saw a lot about geneva: the banks, the expensive shops, the beautiful streets, the commercial area, the 'jet d'eau', a book fair, the amazing geneva flower clock and so much more around leman lake.

we walked to a square where lots and lots of people were sitting at the cafes enjoying the beautiful day. we were there for a while. i had diet coke and fran had panache, a drink which is beer mixed with carbonated lemonade, called shandy in the uk. very nice. the streets and the old buildings look so nice in this very expensive city. i photographed the court of justice. after the cafe we walked to a park where there just another bunch of people on the grass relaxing, eating, or sleeping. we stayed there for quite a long time talking about life. fran and i had some nice, honest and serious conversations about brazil, europe, family, longing, and the gains and loss we are faced with every time we make choices in life.

but fran had to go to work and martina come to meet up with us. again martina showed me other parts of geneva and we ended up going to her apt. martina is fran's 22-year-old daughter. he is a law student in geneva and a very kind and responsible girl. when we got to her place i took a shower, which made me feel renovated for the many hours of fun yet to come still on friday.

martina and i left her apt and stopped by manor again to buy some food for me and for fran. she then took me to the bus stop and told me exactly where i show get off on my way to fran's job, where she'd be waiting for me by the gas station. i was at first scared and feared i wasn't going to be able to go on my own, but i took careful note of all the stops the bus had until my own. i entered the bus from the front door and spoke with the bus driver and asked him to help me out with this. he said 'fine' (in french). i started checking the stops' names and felt calm as everything was very clear and organised. half way through we had fiscalization in the bus. you don't show anybody that you have paid to ride the bus unless there is the visit of a fiscal. voila! they were five coming all together to the bus. a guy asked me for my ticket, which i showed to him, and i was fine. fran had bought a day rover. i got off at my stop, crossed the road towards the gas station, and before i saw i heard fran's voices calling 'kalina'. yey!!!

back home from switzerland

12 apr 2011

bon jour!
i got back home from Switzerland last night. it was an unforgetable four-day trip to visit my old time dear friend Francinete. yes, it was fantastic! the whole trip was so magic: from the endless and nice and relaxed chats with fran to the visit to the mountains and to some very beautiful cities in switzerland. fran and her husband Didier are great hosts. i had, to say the least, a memorable time with my friends. let's hope my load of work around here this week allows me some time to come post about some of the things we did together in detail. my facebook is already loaded with photos.

". . . a caminhar cantando . . ."

30 mar 2011

nota: recebi da minha maroquinha querida Hilra essas lindas linhas por email:

Nene, cabei de ler isso no rodape de um email que recebi e achei a tua cara!!! mais perfeito nao poderia ser:

"Não, não tenho caminho novo.
O que tenho de novo é o jeito de caminhar.
Aprendi (o caminho me ensinou)
a caminhar cantando
como convém a mim
e aos que vão comigo",
Thiago de Mello

walking around lovely Winchester, UK with Mike,  06 feb 2011

getting to charming Lymington, UK with Mike 27 feb 2011

amazing sunset at Hatchet Pond, New Forest, UK with Mike 27 feb 2011