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Another image of my african adventures. This was taken in Ilhéu Bombom [Island of Príncipe, Gulf of Guinea] and represents the dream of any traveler... to find Nature as it was in the beginning: virgin, unspoilt, unexplored... in fact, Príncipe is a heavily eroded volcano over three million years old covered with luxuriant tropical jungle...
... Can you feel the telluric energy of this place?... Can you imagine the power of the forces that shaped those rocks? ....Can you imagine the purity of this water?... ( I can, ehe)

Here is the Piazza San Marco in Venice during the Acqua Alta [the «high water»]. A remark usually attributed to the great Napoleon Bonaparte calls this square «the drawing room of Europe». One more interesting thing about wonderful San Marco: it is one of the few great urban spaces in Europe where human voices prevail over the sounds of motorized traffic – my son Martim took the image

This is the elegant Vasco da Gama Bridge over river Tejo, in Lisbon. With 17,2km (11 miles) long it is the longest bridge in Europe and one of the longest in the world. Its vastness forced engineers to factor in the curvature of the Earth during its construction. That makes it a superb feat of engineering, made up of several sections supported by pillars. The bridge was inaugurated on March 1998 after only 18 months of construction, and just in time to carry visitors to the Expo98

Life has so much up’s and downs. Like a roller coaster. Today in the Everest summit. Tomorrow in the Marianas trench. Joy. Sadness. Euphoria. Anguish. Churchill. Hitler. Ying. Yang. Monty Python. Silvio Berlusconi. Hot. Cold. Resistance. Vichy. South Korea. North Korea. Kate Winslet. Paris Hilton. Nelson Mandela. Robert Mugabe.
But, whatever happens, never give up. There will be sun at the end of the day

...and still is, at least in Africa. Here, some boys enjoy the ocean waves in a lazy sunday afternoon in the city of São Tomé, near the fortress of São Sebastião... no tv, no computers, no tablets, no phones - only natural «gadgets»
[nothing against the civilization, but sometimes.... the 'back to basics' thing, you know...]