Hotel Avenida de Fatima
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From Porto to Lisbon
... talk about what people were doing here so long ago.
When we left Conimbriga it started raining. We were planning on visiting Obidos, but decided that if it was still raining we didn't want to walk around a small town. Luckily it stopped raining, and right when we pulled up there was a rainbow in the distance. It was such a cool place to pull up to - a cute town, surrounded by a castle wall, up on a hill, with ...
Musings on the religious experience eg. Fatima
... there, some even on their knees when I realise my fascination is not so much on the actual religious story but on religiosity of the whole experience. It's in the human capacity of belief and hope. The ability of humans to believe in this other dimension. This third dimension. This very belief in the intangible is what differentiates us from other animals. So my faith may not be in God but it is in humanity and its capacity for ...
A day in the sun.
... o I, when the church (finished in 1416), the royal cloister, the chapter-house, and the funeral chapel of the founder were constructed. - for Gerd ) which was amazing we retired pool side to spend the rest if the day. We had to consider Michel who wasn't feeling the best. We all have to make our little sacrifices in ...
Finally Fatima
Well, not quite what I expected. A huge piazza, bigger than St Peters in Rome with modern buildings. A huge cathedral - super modern, Lisa said it could hold 10,000 people, not sure where she got that figure from but it certainly felt like it. We bought a 60cm beeswax candle and lit it. Then proceeded to the spot where Mary was said to have appeared before the three children. We saw two separate women circumnavigating the spot in their knees whilst a mass was said for ...
Nazare
After leaving Ericeira we headed off to Nazare. Lovely fishing village. Not sure where the fishing boats were. It was so hot today, temperature at one stage was 38 degrees. After a ride in the acensora, a coffee and tarte de Nata we headed off to ...