http://www.recycleforthearts.org Are you Hungry for Art? Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:22:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Artist: Caleb Law File Size:307 KB Picture Dimensions: 1035 x 1420 Pixels Description: Rynel Rynel is a Thief from London searching around with his friendly Gremlin Curbie. Rynel's standards are low but constitution high with a master skill of thievery getting around with his trusty fork-spoon. Curbie Curbie is a Sprotolin a small friendly Gremlin ... http://www.recycleforthearts.org/rynel-curbie.html Day 9, 21 August: It was a wistful goodbye to Portugal. In the airport, I crossed paths with a Portuguese-Canadian, a woman in her 50s or 60s who said she couldn't wait to get home to Canada. She was so glad she left, all those years ago, she said. Portugal ... http://www.recycleforthearts.org/portugal-trip-day-9.html Day 8, 20 August: Cathy's conference over, we left the Marriott. Our Rough Guide suggested O Duque, just under the crest of the hill in Bairro Alto. We went and were treated gruffly by a man there who said he hated George W. Bush. He even had a cartoon that he ... http://www.recycleforthearts.org/portugal-trip-day-8.html Day 7, 19 August: I climbed to the top of the Castelo de S'Jorge and admired the view. Below me, Alfama, the Baixa, Bairro Alto, and the River Tagus, or Rio Tejo. Spanning the Tagus, the Ponte 25 de Abril, once known as the Salazar Bridge, after the economics professor ... http://www.recycleforthearts.org/portugal-trip-day-7.html Day 6, 18 August: For breakfast, I had my bica (Portuguese espresso) and a nata (pudding in a small pie crust) at a sidewalk caf'Bicas are strong and oily and wonderful; if your car leaks oil, just replenish it with a bica. And so I had my Latin breakfast. Of ... http://www.recycleforthearts.org/portugal-trip-day-6.html Day 5, 17 August: I spent the morning at the Conimbriga ruins, the best Roman ruins in Portugal. The mosaics, which used to be the floors of wealthy Roman citizens' houses, are well-preserved. A guide would have been nice, though. I saw two lucky (and probably rich) Americans with theirs, ... http://www.recycleforthearts.org/portugal-trip-day-5.html Day 4, 16 August: Drove from Pinh' through Lamego to Coimbra, the university city. In Lamego we stopped long enough to admire the pilgrimage church, Nossa Senhora dos Rem'os, high above town. The truly repentant ascend to her on their knees. Portugal is like West Virginia: full of ambitious and expensive ... http://www.recycleforthearts.org/portugal-trip-day-4.html Day 3, 15 August: Awoke at Quinta de la Rosa, a port wine estate in Pinh' on the Douro River in northern Portugal. The night before, we'd arrived late and found no one from the estate to let us in. Two older Dutch couples pulled in in their rental car ... http://www.recycleforthearts.org/portugal-trip-day-3.html Day 2, 14 August: Cathy and I drove more than 500 km (310 miles) today, from Sintra to Coimbra and through the mountains to Muxagata and Castel Melhor, near Vila Nova Foz C'At Castel Melhor, Cathy and I toured the Penascosa area of the Parque Arqueol??o do Vale do C'. ... http://www.recycleforthearts.org/portugal-trip-day-2.html Day 1, 13 August: We awoke at 04:00 in Sibbe. At 04:45, we were on our way in our little VW Polo to the Brussels Airport, 128 km (79 miles) away. Fog slowed us down on the Belgian highways, eating up the cushion of time I?d built in. Our flight ... http://www.recycleforthearts.org/portugal-trip-day-1.html