Algumas Fotos Que Tirei de Lisboa. Por Uncle Monty.

Algumas Fotos Que Tirei de Lisboa.

Por Uncle Monty.
Some Photographs I Have Taken of Lisbon.

By Uncle Monty.
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Here then are just a tiny fraction of the 250

images or so that I shot while at Lisbon, the

capital of Portugal last month. Of the 14 Lisbon

images I have selected here, I have tried to show

not just tourist pictures per se. But rather, I have

also picked images of the day to day life I saw while

scouting around the enchanting city of Lisbon that

is in many ways evident to the visitor aside from

the not so enchanting reality that all cities of any

size have like homelessness, urban blight, street

crime, local violence, immigrant enclaves,

and not-so-pretty non-tourist sites.

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Padrão dos Descobrimentos.

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Torre de Belẽm

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Quiet and elegant spot near Cais do Sodre.

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Lisbon's Modernistic East Oriente Bus & Train Station.

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At where the male penis or female vagina usually

is, you'll find instead the door!! The Huge "Legs"

Sculpture is at the wharf of Doca de Santa Amaro.

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Cloud Burst at Avenida Vinte e Centro de Julho.

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Sleek Lisbon Hovercraft-Type Ferry off to Belẽm.

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Portugal's Magnificent National Navy Memorial.

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Lisbon High School kidz somewhat startled

to be photographed as I caught them

fooling about outside their own school.

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Lisbon Historic City Cemetery

With Expensive Walnut Coffin

Awaiting Family Burial Service.

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Portuguese-African Immigrant Enclave at Lisbon.

Negroes and Mulattoes, as they were then called, have

been immigrants to Lisbon since the late 19th century.

Today, growing clusters of them are seen hanging

around the streets and squares at the Portuguese

capital. Many of them are Muslims, too. Most of the

African immigrants at Lisbon are Portuguese-speaking

only and come mainly today from former colonial

colonies of Portugal in Africa. The crime rate among

them is high, much like we see with such immigrant

enclaves in London and all across the face of Western

Europe. The European Union (EU) seems hell bent on

being a driving force to bring about the unwelcomed

and unneeded Africanization and Islamicization of

Europe. That's why Europe, and especially the UK, is

now flooded with Third World immigrants with their

non-ending onslaught by the uncontrolled mass immi-

gration policies of socialist governments in places like

England and Portugal. Lisbon is in some ways

very much like a miniature London of illegal

immigrants and human trafficking, too.
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I just couldn't resist photographing the two-

horse shoe doorways at this grand Lisbon building.

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While in Lisbon, I also visited Parque Eduardo

VII, Castelo de Sao Jorge, Praca do Comercio

(seen at the above caption photo), Palacio da

Ajuda, Bairro Alto, Cais das Colunas, Baixa,

Sete Rios, Estrela, Campo de Ourique, Rato

and Cabo Ruivo. I stayed at the simple Duque

Guest House and was treated very nicely there

at only 20 euro per night and located at the

old antiquarian book district of the city. Many

of the very fancy Lisbon hotels want £150-

or more per night! And, for what? Just for

a fancy bed and breakfast!

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Other than that, two things that Lisbon just doesn’t

seem to have much of – bicycle riders and internet

cafes. In fact, no matter how hard I looked, I saw

neither a bicycle rider nor an internet cafe during

my 8-day stay at Portugal's capital city. It doesn’t

mean there aren’t bicycle riders and internet cafes at

Lisbon, it just means I didn't see such no matter how

hard I looked. They were just mighty hard to find

from my own experience. Trying to find an internet

café was especially impossible. The only place I
finally found one was at Holy Fátima, of all places,

some 65 miles outside of the Portuguese capital. I

guess, internet access was confined to those fancy

and expensive tourist hotels at a 150 quid a night

at Lisbon. Whatever, aside from alot of rain, I

was glad to visit Portugal again after an absence

of some 45 years since I was last there

at Lisbon and Oporto.

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My next trips this year will be to Norway's Oslo

to attend this month's world event there of the

International Church Music Festival. Then in

May, I'm off to Cuba on a long haul with Con-

tessa to see what Old Havana is really like. And

afterwards, I go in September on a short haul

to Italy's Milano to attend the 7th Homeless

World Cup. I also want to badly go either to Iraq

and/or to the Falkland Islands this year or next and

that's only if I can. And, only if Maria is so inclined

to underwrite my hope to go to Iraq and/or the

Falkland Islands. I especially want to see inside

Iraq after what Bush and Blair have so wickedly

done there with my own live eyes and cameras.

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My parting photoshot of Portugal

at Lisboa International Airport.

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The final story of my four-part series

on my stay at Portugal is entitled:
"Azulejos tradicionais Portugueses de Fátima e Lisboa."

Or: "Portuguese Ceramic Tiles of Lisbon and Fátima."

I hope to have such ready on or before Eastertide.

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Best regards, Uncle Monty.

+Gregory The Great, 2oo9.

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