Mural Painting by the crew members of the sailing ship «INDEPENDENCE» at Horta (Faial Island, Azores). Photo by Sailor Girl.

ABC WEDNESDAY - # 01 (A)

«A» IS FOR «ATLÂNTICO AZUL»!

A contribution to ABC Wednesday, now on its round # 04!

Have another very Happy Day, my Friends!...

The flag of «Atlântico Azul» was designed and registered by Sailor Girl, with the help of [IADE] (Lisbon Arts and Design School), who offered all the technical support and the flag's specifications on my 36th Birthday. It represents not only UNITY around the World between all Countries, People and Creeds, but also the greatest Discovery of the Portuguese. «Portuguese, from the West, seeking lands of the East», as Portuguese Poet Luís Vaz de Camões sang on his poem «The Lusíadas». The Discovery of the Ocean, the Union of all Oceans, the Ocean Blue, color of the sky, the Ocean of the Portuguese and of Human kind. It is represented by the blue colour. This is the mark, the signature of the Portuguese, forever. It is centered by the unit of the armillary sphere, because, after the discovery, the entire Humanity discovered that we were connected by the roads of the Sea, which the Portuguese were the first to discover. It is topped by castles and armors, which are the signs of the Nation, the Portuguese Nation, spread and living all over the World.

ADENDA: it is also the official flag, the pavillion, of the «Tagus Navy», further to the author's authorisation, which highly honours me. Fourty five barges built between from 1900 to 2008 fly it and they feel very, very honoured and proud about it.

(Example of a Portuguese pirogue.

This one belongs to the Botanical Museum of the University of Coimbra, Portugal)

The two pirogues of approximately 2300 years-old each, found in 2003 at River Lima (Portugal) will finally be transferred to Lanheses Museum (Viana do Castelo, Portugal). They represent some of the most ancient nautical vestiges found in Portugal. Such type of pirogue was a kind of barge made from one only tree trunk, used by medieval pilgrims to cross the River Lima in their way to Santiago de Compostela.

As duas pirogas encontradas no Rio Lima em 2003 e ambas com cerca de 2300 anos vão ser integradas no Núcleo Museológico de Lanheses, Viana do Castelo. Aquelas pirogas, espécies de canoas talhadas num só tronco de árvore, constituem dos vestígios náuticos mais antigos encontrados em Portugal. No rio Lima, eram utilizadas para ligar as duas margens, nomeadamente no Lugar da Passagem, que integra o roteiro medieval dos caminhos trilhados pelos peregrinos que se dirigiam a Santiago de Compostela. Fonte: Agência Lusa.

Tagus Front Strategic Document

Photos by Sailor Girl of some of the unfortunatelly too many signs at some parts of Lisbon's Riverfront, either informing us that we are being watched through a CCTV surveillance equipment, or preventing us to go through or to park near fences. The former are extremelly important. We could be terrorists trying to jump into the water!! The latter prevent us themselves to go near the Riverfront. I hope they shall be banished. Eventually.

The Portuguese Official Journal published today an Act by the Council of Ministers that approves the objectives and main guidelines for the requalification and rehabilitation of Lisbon's Riverfront to which refers the «Tagus Front Strategic Document», also published as an annex.

Foi hoje publicada em Diário da República a Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 78/2008, de 30 de Abril, que aprova os objectivos e as principais linhas de orientação da requalificação e reabilitação da frente ribeirinha de Lisboa inscritos no documento estratégico «Frente Tejo», publicado em anexo. Pode visualizá-la [AQUI].

A wonderful place called «Faraway»...

(Photo by Sailor Girl)

Click on the picture to better view this awsome mural painting at Marina de Oeiras, depicting the sailing voyage around the World by Luís Abreu Freire and Nuno Leitão aboard «Faraway», a brand-new Jeanneau from Cascais, the hailing port. Click [HERE] for more information and photographs.