2008-03-27 »
Pictures taken during the floods of January 1996, nearby Coruche (Tagus Valley).
Our Minister of Environment thinks it's quite fine to built major complexes on the Tagus flood plane - read more, about Castanheira do Ribatejo...
Our Minister of Environment even thinks that the problem about yesterday's floods is the lack of [...]
2008-02-20 » A very small town (vila) in the "By-the-Tagus-land" (Ribatejo), on the right edge of the Tagus River, a few kilometers North to the town of Vila Franca de Xira.
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When the Tagus is in flood, this land is submerged - several people have to use boats to go inside and [...]
2008-02-17 » (The original portuguese post starts with an excerpt from a Fernando Pessoa's poem, that unfortunately I cannot translate).
A Portuguese Navy effective vessel since April 1998 (after complete restoration for the Lisbon Expo'98), the Frigate is considered the World eighth oldest war ship and belongs to the Navy Museum (Museu de [...]