Posts Tagged ‘ portugal ’

Portugal’s Alternative Energy Revolution

August 17, 2010
By bicyclemark
Portugal’s Alternative Energy Revolution

It isn't hard to find things that don't work correctly in Portugal.  It also isn't hard to find people who will go on and on about how the prime minister is a bum and a crook. Indeed Portugal has
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Somewhere in Portugal

August 1, 2010
By bicyclemark
Somewhere in Portugal

I've been running around the North of Portugal, cities full of history, pride, tradition, and granite!
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Lisbon over 40C

July 26, 2010
By bicyclemark
Lisbon over 40C

The thermometer of the attic apartment reads 40.3C. The act of reading the temperature of the tiny digital display no doubt causes more drops of sweat to roll down my forehead. Its almost August in Li
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Remembering the 25th

April 25, 2010
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Remembering the 25th

It is the 25th of April, although I may be far from Portugal, here in some corner of Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, I still wanted to pause from the travel posts, videos and audios and pay my respects.  To t
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bm308 From the Mountains of Minho

July 29, 2009
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bm308 From the Mountains of Minho

Currently traveling in Portugal and have been unable or unwilling to do a full program during this family-focused visit.  But I did make use the audio recording function of my xacti camera today and p
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Protest or Film?

July 27, 2009
By bicyclemark

Only a few more days of my Portugal-Family vacation remain. Today I'm quickly checking in with a video I captured in the Bica, downtown Lisbon, over the weekend. What initially looked like a demonstra
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Portugal Summer Note

July 17, 2009
By bicyclemark
Portugal Summer Note

Getting adjusted and taking care of a long list of errands for my 2 weeks in Portugal that have just begun.  Will return to posting AND podcasting, this weekend. Here's a photo from today.
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Sephardi Istanbul

April 11, 2009
By bicyclemark
Sephardi Istanbul

In the past I've made frequent references to the Sephardi jews that in the 15th century fled the Spanish inquisition and Portuguese King's policies and settled in Amsterdam. I like to refer to that gr
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