Hello lovely peeps,
Happy New Year to all of you!
In the days in between Christmas and New Year, I went to the post office to collect my mail. Imagine my surprise when I found three postcards from Lisbon posted on the 24th of September when I was there. My friend Keren (she and her husband were with me in Lisbon) bought me the postcards and bought stamps and posted them to me so I could have them for my collection.
They all represent things we had seen with our own eyes, so a lovely memory. I'm going to show you all three. Here is the first one:
It's a blackspotted puffer fish that we saw in the aquarium of Lisbon.
Info on the back of the card:
The second postcard was this one:
Info on the back of the card:
A Common Seadragon, which I photographed but which is difficult to spot due to its excellent camouflage:
The actual sea dragon is on the left.
The third postcard was from the Gulbenkian Museum:
We went there specifically to see the Lalique exhibition. Lalique is famous for his glass art but he also made the most beautiful jewellery. The above comb is gorgeous.
Below a couple of photos I took at the museum:
This pendant is exquisite.
This brooch shows Lalique's glass work.
The stamps on the cards also showed things we had seen:
Top one: the famous trams
Te middle one features the tiled houses:
And the last one shows a castle tower (can't remember what it was called)
But we sailed past it and I took this picture.
Lovely memories of an amazing holiday!
What have I been up to?
I had two chickens left. One of them wasn't doing too well and none of them was laying eggs, so I asked my cleaner, Delsis, to kill the one that wasn't doing so well and I gave the remaining one to a friend:
Skinning the poor chicken. Not much meat on her I'm afraid.
Saturday, after our Intercambio session we went to a local bar to celebrate my friend David's birthday.I had made him a pineapple upside down cake as I knew he likes those.
I took that to the bar but forgot to take photos of our drinks.
Well, here is a cafe I went to not long ago in the nearby town of Baza:
And this is what I had:
My coffee and a piece of home made carrot cake.
It is my drink for the T-Party hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard.
Happy T-Day,
Hugs,
Lisca
7 comments:
How wonderful to receive the postcards (finally ...lol 😆) and to remember those happy memories of Lisbon. The pinapple upside down cake looks delicious too. Wishing you all the very best for 2025 ❤️ . Happy T Day! Hugs, Jo x
Pineapple upside down cake is really a great winter choice as it doesn’t need fresh fruit. You inspire me — maybe I’ll bake one.
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Happy New Year Lisca! My goodness that's a long time for those postcards to arrive from Lisbon lol. The puffer fish looks so cute, and the seadragon. I actually have a seadragon rubber stamp, very detailed. Love the pineapple upside down cake! Hope your little cat is doing well too. Happy T Day!
That was so sweet of your friend to send you these interesting cards as a memory of your trip together. The glass work is amazing. And your upside down pineapple cake looks delicious. All the best for 2025 and happy T day!
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake always makes a pretty presentation. Happy T Day and Happy New Year
That is really great you got those postcards. I would think you really would appreciate them. And I saw the sea dragon in your photo. They are so cool, aren't they? And boy, you had me drooling with hat pineapple upside cake. I think I need to make one now. I hope 2025 is going well. And that you had a happy T day too. hugs-Erika
I read that dolphins touch puffer fish to play "ball" and get high from the "poisin" the fish gets out to defends itself.
Those trams sure do a hard job both ways...
Sad ending with the chickens.
I´d prefer the pineapple on toast Hawaii, but well, it looks tempting! Happy belated T-Day!
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