http://www.whelanslive.com/



Este fim-de-semana conheci a bonita cidade costeira do Lobito e a reconstruída cidade de Huambo (antiga Nova Lisboa).
Na próxima semana devo visitar Lubango (antiga Sá da Bandeira, a cidade mais pula de Angola) que Gonçalo Cadilhe refere no Livro "África acima".
curiosidades:
1) fotografámos a casa destruída do grande irmão (Savimbi) em Huambo
2) o novo primeiro ministro é padrasto do filho do Presidente em exercício
3) demoro duas horas no trânsito e pelo meio de musseques para chegar ao escritório
4) a tarrachinha é uma dança muito sensual em que os homens não se mexem
5) uma das músicas mais conhecidas, a "Doce de Côco", têm no refrão "você me bate ié, já não me chama doce de côco ié... tou cansada de tanta pancada"
6) outra música excelente é a "Ti Paciência" :)
7) os táxis, chapas azuis e brancas, são candongueiros e têm mensagens no vidro como "o chefe do Boss"
e de acordo com um grande amigo (obrigado Anhas!)
"O Kimbundo não é utilizado na comunicação do dia a dia e há muitas pessoas que não sabem falar, mas é engraçado saber algumas expressões:
- Eie wazekélé kiambote? – “Bom dia, dormiste bem?”
- Eie wanangue kiambote? “Boa tarde, passaste bem?”
- Muhete uambote, zaku tazuele – “Mulher bonita, vem aqui falar comigo”
vocabulário essencial:
Sem macas = não há problema;
Mambos = coisas, situações;
Incomodado = alguém que está doente está incomodado;
Mata-bicho = pequeno-almoço;
Mata-bichar = tomar o pequeno-almoço;
Kumbu = dinheiro;
Tiriri = caganeira;
Pula = branco;
Ir na Tuga = Ir a Portugal;
Ainda = Não, ainda não está;
Ya, tá fixe = Ok (também é utilizado quando não perceberam metade do que disseste);
Pacheco = homem que vive à custa da mulher;
Dama = miúda;
A minha dama / o meu damo = a minha mulher ou namorada / o meu marido ou namorado;
Patar = aparecer numa festa sem ser convidado e sem pagar;
Malembe, malembe = vamos com calma;
Chupar = não leves a mal se te perguntarem “chupas” (não é o que estás a pensar), significa qualquer coisa como “bebes muito?”;
Musseque = bairro de lata;
Junta-areia = quando não sabes dançar (basicamente eu limito-me a ser junta-areia);
Catorzinha = adolescente;
Pulumgusa = charme;
Tirar água do joelho = urinar;
Bilo = luta;
Mbaia = ultrapassar;
Boelo = burro, estúpido;
Tirar o pé = ir embora;
Jajão = simular;
Dar no ar = se combinares alguma coisa com alguém e não apareceres então deste no ar;
Dioba = fome;
Lancar = comer."
explorem: http://www.kuta-bar.com/

o desempenho genial da actriz Beatriz Batarda exige uma ida ao Teatro da CornucópiaThe final destination of these vacations was the most animated city I've been during these last two months!
It was a real surprise to find such an environment in a city that just a few years ago was completely destroyed! (although you can still find sad marks of the 90's in several war-scarred facades)
Nice old streets and turkish markets, the religion mix and Sarajevo's nightlife turn the capital of Bosnia-Hercegovina into one of the most extraordinary destinations of the beggining of Eastern Europe!
Eat: Bosanska Kuća (pick meat, next to Sport bar); Restaurant Jež (if you take your girlfriend); To be or not to be (a small and good restaurant in the old turkish town); Restaurant "Park Princeva" (amazing view of the entire city - right lower corner's photo - great food and service at good prices, have fun trying to count how many towers of mosques there are in the city!!! take a bus to go there, don't walk!)
Coffee place: there's plenty of nice terrace cafes but I recommend you the one located in the oldest hotel of Sarajevo, at Morica Han (near Saraci 73).
Nightlife: WOW so many good places!!! Café Opera, a bar next to Café Opera with a huge balcony across the street (take the stairs to the 2nd floor of a destroyed building), City Pub, Club, Havana (is also a Mexican restaurant before 11pm)
Sleep: Villa Orient (due to the location!!!)
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/bosnia-hercegovina/sarajevo/


It was almost a great photo :) it's the bay at Dubrovnik's walls!
Croatia offers hundreds of beaches, lakes and islands with medieval treasures and astonishing natural beauty. Our route was Zagreb, Split, Hvar (aka Croatia's Madeira) and Dubrovnik.
Unfortunately we had to skip Zadar, the islands of Pag and Brac as well as the Plitvice's lakes... but these are just good excuses to go back there :)
Amazing coincidence: while leaving from Split we found by chance our 3 portuguese friends from Bled, in the nice bar next to the train station... they decided to join us in Hvar and Dubrovnik later :) bellow is a photo of the portuguese expedition group!!!

Hints for Zagreb: dinner at the italian restaurant Boban's (take the black risotto!!! it was recommended to us by a nice young couple and the boy had a t-shirt from Portugal!!!); take some drinks in the park at the animated bar Purgeraj.
Hints for Split: take a drink at... well just walk around the centre, go at Diocletian's palace square and end at Hemingway's disco :)
Hints for Hrav: have the most tasteful steak in the world at Giorgio's Garden or have dinner in Menego (the last restaurant that you found in the stairs from the main square to the castle); take a drink at trendy "Carpe diem" bar or at the excellent Wine Bar; afterwards go for a great view on the bay from skybar of hotel Adriana; end the night at Veneranda Club just a few steps from that hotel.
Hints for Dubrovnik: go to Lokrum island; take a coffee or a swim in the sea at the sunset at a special bar... Cafe Buža... just ask where it is exactly 'cause I just remember that you have to climb some stairs and behind some church you will find some door with a sign for "Cold Drinks"; have a beer and listen to Live Music at Trobadur and end your night at Eastwest Beach Club.
Buy the Time Out magazine if you plan to stay more than a few days: http://www.timeout.com/shop/products/crtvg08.html
Small is beautiful!!!Llubljana: http://www.visitljubljana.si/en/ ; http://www.timeout.com/travel/ljubljana/
Il a été un week-end très agréable avec Inês, Teresa et Patricia 
Merci Fabien!!!
"LYON:
Very nice city, lot of things to do. The French gastronomy city where the local restaurants are called “bouchons” (corks). Loads of specialities, expect good cuisine and heavy cuisine for Lyon’s specialities (andouillette, tablier de sapeur (stuffed stomach), quenelles, oeufs en meurette…). Bouchons are the canteen of employees of the city center at lunch and well frequented restaurants in the evenings. The accommodation is very simple, as it’s all about food and conviviality: small tables, heavy food, pots of wine and great atmosphere.
La presqu’île is the part of the city located between the Saone and the Rhône. Start at the town hall on place des Terreaux and stare at the fountain from sculptor Bartholdi, the one that sculpted the statue of Liberty. From there, with the fountain behind you take the street on the left side of the square and go to see the opera with its barrel like roof which is just behing the town hall then walk up to join the Rue de la République which is a pedestrian street. Walk up to the place Bellecour (nothing really interesting to see but the most important thing is the way… :), have a coffee around if it’s sunny.
Now enter one of Lyon specialities: les traboules. Les traboules are corridors connecting streets via inner yards which resembles secret corridors and let you peek at some very interesting pieces of architecture. Don’t be afraid if you need to open doors or simply push them. Normally the traboules are marked by a sign but not all and not all the time and are for most of them open.
Cross the place Bellecour towards Rue Auguste Comte and enter at number 5. Have a look at this site to see the map of the traboules of the area: http://www.lyontraboules.net/presquile_centre.php . Visit a few, some are great some are banal there are more later :)
Restaurants:
- Café comptoir Abel - 25, rue Guynemer 69002 Lyon
- Institut Vatel - 8, rue Duhamel 69002 Lyon – GASTRONOMY/RECOMMENDED – highest gastronomy from the Vatel school pupils (very good cuisine, acceptable price)
- L’olivier argenté - 31, rue Ste Hélène 69002 Lyon
From there get back to the Place Bellecour and take on your left hand side and cross the Saone via the Pont Bonaparte to get to the medieval part of the city: Vieux Lyon.
You now need to head back North and stumble on the Cathedral on the place Saint Jean: get in. Then take the Rue Saint Jean and go for some more traboules (http://www.lyontraboules.net/saint_jean.php). Get back in the street and keep your nose up as the most interesting things to see are the buildings and the restaurants.
Walk up North and stroll around and then head towards the basilica from Fourvières (the hill). Walk via the garden from Rue de la Bombarde or take the funicular (check the address or ask for funiculaire). I love the architecture of this basilica which is from the end of the 19th, especially the pillars. Go and have a look at the crypt and you’ll see what I mean.
Next go to see the ruins of the roman amphiteatre via the street on the left starting from the basilica: rue Roger Radisson. Walk until the intersection with Rue Cléberg. There is a museum as well, I don’t know what it is worth.
Restaurants: avoid the restaurants in the main street for tourists :)
- La machonnerie – BOUCHON - 36, rue Tramassac 69005 Lyon
- Café épicerie – cour des loges - 6, rue du Boeuf 69005 Lyon
- Le boeuf d’argent - 29, rue du Boeuf 69005 Lyon (pianist on Sunday evenings)
Another very interesting part of the city are “les pentes de Croix-Rousse”: the slopes of Croix-Rousse.
This part is being renovated are rehabilitated since a decade, some parts are still a bit grunge with maybe a few “strange” people. It’s not dangerous but keep an eye open. This was the workers’ district back in the days when Lyon was the capital of the silk industry and the “canuts” silk workers were numerous. Don’t forget the traboules!! http://www.lyontraboules.net/croix_rousse_ouest.php
Start from the place des terreaux and take the Gande côte: it’s steep J. On the left stumble upon the Aphiteatre des 3 Gaules: again ruins of a roman theater. Keep going up to through the garden and its stairs and if it is still there, there should be a nice small arab/maroccan café on the right where you can have homemade meals and treats (made at the time by housewives from different countries – eat like at home :).
If it’s not too late walk up to the boulevard and stroll in the market (daily) and then walk down to on the other side of the hill via “Gros Caillou” a roc from the ice age erected as a symbol next to place Bellevue at the end of the boulevard (eastwards) in the streets behind. Pick one street and wlak down but stop at the Passage Thiaffait ine the Rue Pouteau, between Rue Burdeau and Rue Leynaud it’s a nice commercial passage hosting the avant garde of Lyon’s haute couture.
Restaurants:
- Le bouchon de l’opera - 13, rue Terraille 69001 Lyon
- La maison Villemanzy - 25, montée St Sébastien 69001 Lyon
- La mère Brazier – RECOMMENDED - 12, rue Royale 69001 Lyon
- Le potager des halles - 3, rue de la Martinière 69001 Lyon
- Les terrasses de Lyon - 25, montée St-Barthélemy 69005 Lyon – GASTRONOMY (100€)
Nightlife :
From the my school’s city guide…should be good as they are night owls!
The city’s “Bairro alto” similar street is Rue Sainte Catherine just behind the place des Terreaux (I lived there!) go to the perroquet bourré if you can get in, ruhms all over the place or just pick any of the bars there.
A selection of some bars
- F&G - 20, rue Terraille 69001 Lyon
- L’alcove - 1, rue de l'Ancienne Préfecture 69002 Lyon _ LOUNGE
- Milk - 19, quai Saint Antoine 69002 Lyon – POSH and EXPENSIVE
For music go there:
- Bec de Jazz - 19, rue Burdeau 69001 Lyon - JAZZ
- Le peristyle de l’opera - 1, pl. de la Comédie 69001 Lyon – EAT and DRINK, JAZZ
Nightclubs :
- La marquise- 20, quai Augagneur 69003 Lyon - ON THE RIVER ON A BOAT"
From all the bands that still have a vocalist alive, this is likely the best in the world! :)
"Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life."
Shakespeare's Globe

Torino (Turim) é uma cidade que se revela cada vez mais fantástica em cada praça, estátua, café, restaurante ou museu que conhecemos.
Organizada, velha, bonita. É banhada pelo rio e aproxima-se da montanha.
E no fim-de-semana, apesar de ser um dos melhores destinos de Itália, é propícia ao abandono para fugir aos turistas porque está a uma hora e meia de qualquer fria estância de esqui ou das águas quentes do Mediterrâneo.
A velha senhora apresenta hoje alguns dos melhores trabalhos de design, palácios históricos e as maiores riquezas do antigo Egipto. Ecléctica e agradável, convida quem passa por aqui a ficar mais tempo que o planeado...
(a não perder: o Museu Nacional de Cinema, o magnífico espelho nocturno das pontes e o "Transformer").
"Creio que os lugares que nos emocionam que me emocionam mais, as paisagens que melhor amei, foram sempre simbioses de terra e homem. Por isso aponto para a Ligúria como última etapa antes do regresso a casa. A Ligúria é uma pequena região italiana apertada, muito apertada, entre os Apeninos e o mar, entre a França e a Toscana. Não há espaço nem respiro. Mas há uma espécie de Absoluto quotidiano na paisagem em vertical, na luminosidade organizada por um céu de pérola cinzenta, no clima temperado que estende a mão à oliveira, ao limoeiro, ao pinheiro manso. A escassez de terra fez do povo lígure, que Plínio mencionava como um dos “povos fundamentais da humanidade”, gente sóbria e avara. Talvez por isso a intervenção do homem no território foi sempre comedida, essencial e de extremo bom gosto.Nada me comove tanto como a Ligúria, não conheço outra parte do mundo onde a inserção humana tenha sido tão fluida e depurada, tão perfeita. O centro deste universo estreito e acidentado é Génova, a capital histórica da Ligúria. A aura das fachadas de pescadores de Portofino, as aldeias do Golfo das aldeias de Cinque Terre, os arranha-céus medievais de Camogli, a língua de casa entre as duas baías de Sestri Levante são algumas das demonstrações materiais de amor do homem lígure pelo seu território.
Nada me comove tanto como as cidades da Ligúria, centros de pequena dimensão perfeitamente integrados na atmosfera mediterrânica e que oferecem o melhor da vida aos seus cidadãos: a praça ao sol, a esplanada virada ao mar, a rua fechada ao trânsito, o ócio à volta de um copo de vinho branco, o paraíso num prato de troffie al pesto, uma sequência de fachadas em tons suaves e diluídos que não agridem o azul do céu, o azul do mar."
in "Planisfério Pessoal" (ler mais em "A Lua pode esperar")
Bratislava is a beautiful city, delimited by the Danube and gazing Austria just a few kilometres away.
Although small is one the most charming capitals of Europe and I’m glad that finally the borders were “abolished” from the last 21st December on (‘cause Slovakia entered the Schengen area).
I’d the luck of having a great tourist guide (thanks for all Barbora!) but besides going to some of the places you can read more about in the link above what I really enjoyed was:
- the Christmas Fair on Hlavné námestie (were I’ve met really nice people) and
- the amazing bar in the tower - look at the photo on the upper left corner - above the bridge over the Danube (the elevator rises diagonally and the sight from the bathroom is overwhelming – although intimidating if you imagine that the entire city can see what you’re doing at the moment :)
There’s live music in the Christmas Markets and you can buy typical Slovakian products made of glass, wood, leather or wicker and eat cabbage soup, cigánska pecienka and really tasteful meat in the grile (I tasted there the best burger of my life) while drinking punch to warm up.
A really nice place to stay is the City Hostel (cheap, tide and clean as a good Hotel).
A good plan is to have a typical dinner and some beers in the Slovak Pub and go afterwards to Charlie’s Disco, drinking BOROVIČKA all the time.
There’s also a really fancy disco where I didn’t go, I’ll search for the name and try it next time. Another option is the Cirkus Barok (a dance club and bar with several floors in a ship anchored on the Danube river).
The nightlife is great, after all the city is also known as Partyslava!

From left to right
1. This portrait was painted in order to show the face of a man that was betrayed by his wife. The purpose was to tell everyone that the (unfaithful) women had already a husband.
The centuries passed by and although several times was tried to hide the portrait behind layers of white paint, the face of this man always comes back to the surface, reappearing again and again.
2. These objects were put on the entrance door of the town in order to measure knifes brought from outside. The ones bigger than the measure presented were not allowed to carry inside;
3. The legend tells that the virgin girls can see the statue spinning round and round;
4. This is the statue of a beloved citizen (he really existed but died some years ago) that loved to welcome and salute everyone in Bratislava (a few years ago some english hooligans broke this statue and ‘till today the british are not welcome from the point of view of the eldest in Bratislava that still remember and miss this good fellow).
(I don’t know if my descriptions are correct but they are surely incomplete, so if someone has any comment to add I would appreciate to know – e-mail me to zeluismacas@gmail.com)
¡Después de Toledo he decidido visitar también la vieja y preciosa ciudad de Segovia!



Historia de una gaviota y del gato que le enseñó a volar - Luis Sepúlveda
Concerto - 08.10.2007 (20h)
Lançamento do disco Dreams in Colour - 7 de Outubro
Además de los museos, Madrid tiene sitios increíbles para cenar y salir de copas.
Para cenar, busca en www.11870.com:
Public, Bazar, La Finca de Susana, MOMA, Wagaboo, Joana La Loca, La Lateral, Juan Bravo y La Capilla de la Bolsa (más caro).
Para salir de copas en Madrid, pues aquí están algunos (probablemente ya los conoces!)
1. Café la Palma ( c/ La Palma 62) : Típico sitio para tomar las primeras copas y entrar en calor. La música no es una maravilla pero el sitio no está mal. http://www.cafelapalma.com/
2. El naranja (San Vicente Ferrer, 53): Sitio muy pop donde suele haber exposiciones, cortos, muchas vidilla. Muy cerca de Café la Palma.
3. Barbarella ( Pop club) (San Vicente Ferrer 33): Total POP bar. Tambíen cerca de los otros.
4. Independance Club: rocky.También electro pop. http://www.myspace.com/independancemadrid
5. Areia (Hortaleza 92) ( límite entre chueca y malasaña, un poco más apartado): Sitio chill out. Bueno para relajarte ( ¡hay hasta camas!). http://www.areiachillout.com/
6. El Junco: Suele haber conciertos de Jazz… http://www.eljunco.com/
7. La boca del lobo: No está mal. http://www.labocadellobo.com/index2.htm
8. Low club: http://www.intromusica.com/ Vienen dj-s buenos, el ambiente bastante underground, el sitio no es muy guay…pero bueno.
9. Mondo club : http://www.web-mondo.com/web_2.html. uno de los mejores clubs de Madrid.
10. Elástico: http://www.myspace.com/elasticoflexiclub (Sólo sabados)
11. Ocho y medio: http://www.tripfamily.com/2007/trip2007.html ( sólo sabados)
12. Archi (muy bueno!!! pijo) http://11870.com/konsulto/archi
13.Penthouse – pijo - un vistazo muy bueno de Madrid (Plaza Santa Ana) http://11870.com/konsulto/Penthouse
14.Fortuny – pijo - http://11870.com/pro/24949
15. Tupperware (aunque pequeño está bien, en Malasaña) http://11870.com/pro/18416
16. Virtual
17. Pacha (tiene cerca un bar que también está guay, el Kyoto)
18. Kapital (la ultima planta está muy bien)
No recomendo el Joy Eslava ni el Vanilla!
(foto roubada algures no Flickr - Concerto em Portalegre)
muito bons ao vivo, ouvi-os hoje no Mercury Lounge (mercuryloungenyc.com), em East Village, vou investigar o cd agora :)

"The idea for the title first cropped up while I was lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1971. Not particularly drunk, just the sort of drunk you get when you have a couple of stiff Gössers after not having eaten for two days straight, on account of being a penniless hitchhiker. We are talking of a mildy inability to stand up.
I was travelling with a copy of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to Europe by Ken Walsh, a very battered copy that I had borrowed from someone. In fact, since this was 1971 and I still have the book, it must count as stolen by now. I didn't have a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day (as it then was) because I wasn't in that financial league."
Douglas Adams
Fui ouvir ontem o seu trio ao Blue Note, na apresentação deste novo álbum. Escutem com atenção!
( i fell in love with the work of Lee Bontecou :)
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Os Sonic Youth actuam este mês em Portugal, no Festival Paredes de Coura
a Atlântico promove deliberadamente grande parte das posições defendidas pelo Compromisso Portugal, porque é que outros meios de comunicação não seguem o exemplo?
"Retrato
La Dolce VitaNuma das noites, assistimos a guerras de lançamentos de capacetes entre italianos, sentados em Vespas, perto do Radio Londra.
Noites mais tarde, no regresso do Drunken Ship e depois de um passeio pelo Campo de Fiore, conhecemos o reino dos Gatos na terra. Augustos imperadores da zona sacra da Piazza Argentina. As ruínas achadas no início do século passado servem hoje de abrigo a gatos enormes, anafados mas altivos.
Passado um ano, estou ainda extasiado com a colecção de quadros do Vaticano (incluindo quadros de Dalí e Van Gogh), com os frescos de Rafael e o tecto da Capela Sistina, cuja imagem coloco agnosticamente, por vezes, no desktop. Foto tirada às escondidas, máquina no chão e as nossas caras mesmo por baixo da Criação.
Nessas férias, a ragazza mais gira que encontrámos foi uma morena de olhos de água - frente à Pietá no Vaticano - e após uma breve troca de palavras em inglês rimos ao perceber que também era portuguesa.
Aos dez anos, ficava fixado frente ao televisor e aguardava o início do Top + para rever o vídeo do single Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmmm.
à distância de uma curta viagem de eléctrico, comboio, autocarro e para os mais comodistas, em viatura própria ou táxi


http://www.berardocollection.com/
(é fantástico ter esta colecção em Lisboa e aguardar por mais empréstimos futuros dos melhores museus do mundo... no entanto, seria muito melhor criar um espaço próprio para a mesma e não ocupar de forma permanente o CCB)
Ainda estou a digerir isto tudo, prometo escrever mais sobre este Boxer dos The National, mas não podia deixar de vos pedir para ouvirem este álbum o mais depressa possível!