Author Archives: João Almeida

Sueca

0029 © 2013 . All rights reserved.

What do four pensioners sitting at a garden bench anywhere in Portugal do? Play Sueca!

While in other countries people might gather around a board of chess or checkers, in Portugal a small crowd, or several small crowds, at …

Continue reading

A first look of Morocco

Early morning at Essaouira, the city of white walls and blue doors, before shops open and streets get crowded. © 2013 . All rights reserved.

Back from the quick trip to Morocco. Back from the hectic souks of Marrakech, from the massive Atlas mountains with its minarets rising from the small villages that fill its steep slopes and narrow valleys, from the calm and relaxed Eassouira.

There’s …

Mercado da Ribeira

Mercado da Ribeira © 2013 . All rights reserved.

20130112 DSC00525 192x288 Mercado da RibeiraRibeira Market (Mercado da Ribeira in Portuguese), used to be Lisbon’s main market in an old building that would fill from the early hours of the day with tasty goods, outspoken fishmongers and all the recurrent characters you can find …