Guernica

Picasso had no inspiration. Although he wanted to be working for the Muses´ visit, he did not make progress. The artist had a job commissioned by the Government of the Second Republic to exhibit at the International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life, in Paris, 1937.

261 Fearless

Once upon a time there was a young woman who wanted to run. And once upon a time too a city which didn´t have rules referred to the Marathon race and women. In other words, women couldn´t run. Period.

Was this Boston Marathon for men only?

Easter Sunday

I´m learning to read and write and I like to do it on my own. All help is very welcome

     He was the first person whom I heard this tradition. My grandfather, he was.

     He told me that there was the custom of seeing the day break from a hill and asking for a wish.

Efeito vacina 

Despite my interest about the History I didn´t know the episode that Sebastião Bugalho describes —page 11, SOL, Edição Nº5533, 3 Abril 2007— so majestically. This young boy, with all due respect, tell us what happened in the Ancient Greece.

Vera Stanhope 

I´m learning to read and write and I like to do it on my own. All help is very welcome

Dear Fran,

my friend Godoy has sent me an e-mail about the Hadrian´s Wall. He is watching the Wall again because there is a TV series entitled Vera based on books written by Ann Cleeves.

You need a spade to clean the coop

Boy, I know why politicians say so many silliness.

I´m finishing Harari´s book —Homo Deus— and the third section in it is really brilliant. The paragraphs grab your attention  and you go through its pages without realizing how time flies.

An Andalusian house

I´m learning to read and write and I like to do it on my own. All help is very welcome

Dear Fran,

the vicarage had two doors: the front door and the back one. The back door looked out onto the orchard and the kitchen garden. The front door looked out onto the lane.