Dom Pedro V who was one of the kings of Portugal is also the eponym of the street in Porto we live in.
We found him also in the Monte Palace Tropical Garden. Not to be confused with the botanical garden.
The display is on the typical Portuguese tiles called Azulejo.
We were on vacation. When returning we had this view from the balcony. Hint: Not many runways are trapped between the airport building and the mountains.
Check here if your guess was correct.
We went to the movie theater and in the middle of the movie – which was after 45 minutes – this
appeared. Last time I have experienced an intermission was between two movies of LOTR.
This time it was a kids movie: Patos! Based on the booking information it was supposed to be the OV but it turned out to be the Portuguese version. Since the ducks did not discuss philosophy we were able to follow anyway and had fun.
While I did not further investigate the real reason for the intermission I believe it is intended as service break for the young audience.
The German school in Porto has it’s own Oktoberfest. It was fun and games for the kids and of course you meet more BOSCHlers.
My son got a tiptoi. I was interested how it works and a little bit of googling lead me to this page. It provides a tool to create your own pages, books, adventures or puzzles. I gave it a try and this is the result.
It does not look pretty and I could not print it in color, but the b/w version works. You can see the dotty area on each finger and on the i/o and play button. They contain the code that is read by the tiptoi pen. The example ha two modes. Mode one will just say the name of the finger when you touch it. Mode two can be activated by touching the play button on the lower right. If you touch the fingers in order starting with the thump it’ll tell the German poem “Das ist der Daumen …” or complain if the oder is not correct.
Find here the code:
product-id: 42 comment: das_ist_der_daumen init: $spiel:=0 welcome: hallo language: de
scripts: dau: - $spiel == 0? P(daumen) - $spiel == 1? $pos == 0? P(vdaumen) $pos := 1 - $spiel == 1? $pos != 0? P(vnochmal,vanderer,vsicher,vhmmm) zei: - $spiel == 0? P(zeige) - $spiel == 1? $pos == 1? P(vzeige) $pos := 2 - $spiel == 1? $pos != 1? P(vnochmal,vanderer,vsicher,vhmmm) mit: - $spiel == 0? P(mittel) - $spiel == 1? $pos == 2? P(vmittel) $pos := 3 - $spiel == 1? $pos != 2? P(vnochmal,vanderer,vsicher,vhmmm) ring: - $spiel == 0? P(ring) - $spiel == 1? $pos == 3? P(vring) $pos := 4 - $spiel == 1? $pos != 4? P(vnochmal,vanderer,vsicher,vhmmm) kle: - $spiel == 0? P(klein) - $spiel == 1? $pos == 4? P(vklein) $pos := 0 - $spiel == 1? $pos != 4? P(vnochmal,vanderer,vsicher,vhmmm) spiel: - $spiel == 0? P(spiel_start) $spiel:=1 $pos := 0 - $spiel == 1? P(spiel_end) $spiel:=0 $pos := 0
speak: hallo: "Hallo!" daumen: "Daumen" zeige: "Zeigefinger" mittel: "Mittelfinger" ring: "Ringfinger" klein: "kleiner Finger" spiel_start: "Das Spiel wird jetzt gestartet. Beginne mit dem Daumen!" spiel_end: "Das Spiel wird jetzt beendet" vdaumen: "Das ist der Daumen!" vzeige: "Der schüttelt die Pflaumen!" vmittel: "der liest sie auf!" vring: "der trägt sie nach Haus!" vklein: "und der isst sie alle alle auf!" vnochmal: "Versuchs nochmal!" vanderer: "Versuch einen anderen Finger!" vsicher: "Sicher?" vhmmm: "Hmmmm!"
I’ve taken some pictures and short clip
of the parrots living in the tree in front of my house.
I’ve found a nice plugin for WP:
After the Deadline.
It might help to improve the text quality. At least mine.
Long ago I’ve spent a day in Frankfurt. Since I’ve never been there I went for the first parking I saw. And I got the following ticket with an interesting date.
In the evening I got an amount displayed on the machine that slightly exceeds the credit level of my credit card. (Sorry for the bad quality, but taking pictures of LCDs in direct sunlight is a challenge)
After waiting for a long time and talking to the service people the amount was reduced.
Sorry for the German title, but the translated one I did not like. Someone has stolen my partition in the basement. Not just some things from it. My complete partition is taken over by someone else. When I recently went down to put my suitcase I could not find my partition any more. The place did not look like before any more. After some searching it turned out that someone has broken my lock, filled my partition with his things, put paper on the inside of the metal grid (that’s why it looked completely different) and put a new lock. So now I have a partition with someone else’s things any my flat full of things.
I’ve been to Tours in France. For picking up my sister at the Euro Gusto. This is an exposition comparable to the Slow Food. OK, I’ve to admit it’s not very reasonable to drive 1800 km in 3 days just for having a look at some wine and tasting some smelling cheese. But I like France and it was definitely good to away from work for some days and I had the possibility to correct some of my prejudice about French people. They tried hard to understand my bad French and did not ask for every word I’ve pronounced in a wrong way and they even tried to talk German to me.
The picture shows the things I’ve bought there: cheese, calvados, almonds, fleur de sel and nougat.