Carmel Brennan

I waited and waited for the bus,the green line of the hop on hop off bus, and after half an hour of watching people, I thought I’m going to start walking. I’ll get it later. Haha! It figures, it’s passing me right now as I walk to the Carmo convent. It’s a tough walk uphill,…

I’m sitting in Lisbon at a bus station waiting for the yellow hop on hop off bus to come along. Apparently they stop at 5 PM so I’m going to buy a ticket for 24 hours and hopefully I’ll be allowed on tomorrow. I’ll check that out first. It’s a good way to see the…

Is it possible you remember in the beginning, maybe the first week or the second week of this trip, I went to a pop-up restaurant? I was still walking, no wheels yet, so it was quite a way out of the town. The owners of the mobile restaurant decided to move away from Zambujeira Do…

It’s April fools day. Before we know it, it’ll be June and then will be talking about fall. I am not doing the Uxbridge Studio Tour this year. It was time for a break. At the end of September, I’ll be going off to the Orkneys with my son for my graduation ceremony in St.…

I am heading down to the NW Algarve on a new adventure. I had to stop in Sao Teotonio first, to get a short term sim card for my phone. The Vodaphone card stopped working because it is the end of the month, even though I had arranged and paid for service until April 5th!!…

Today has been spent working on my Letters to the Earth project, forwarding images of the letters to the organizers in Scotland for the exhibitions, two of them in May and June. My friend, Susan Torrance is going to get the letters from Scottish participants enlarged and printed out and hang them for the exhibition.…

It’s already 15° here and it’s going up to 24°. Yesterday was hot in the sun. (No, I am not complaining!) This is when you start to appreciate the coolness of the inside of these houses in Portugal. Again, today the waves are really crashing against the shore; I suppose the tide is coming in…