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Not About Angels



Love é estúpido. Love é lixo. Love é como ir à Berska. (Estou amargurada sim) Não atino com ele. Encontrar um Love que me traga paz de espirito, de mente, alegria, amor mas que seja desafiante. Que me faça uma pessoa melhor. Sem maldade ou idiotices. Quero ser amada será pedir muito? Pelos vistos é. Então esquece lá Love. Deixa-te estar sossegadinho no teu canto. Vá de retro a satanás sff, que não tenho paciência, nem mais vontade. 
 
Love is stupid. Love is garbage. Love is like shopping at Berska. (I'm bitter yes). I want to find a Love that brings me peace of mind, joy, love but that is also challenging. One that makes me a better person. No malice or foolishness. I just want to be loved is it too much to ask? Apparently it is. So let it be Love. Let yourself be still in your corner. Back the hell off please. I have no patience, no more will.
 


 
 

Such a bright Day


Come along jogging with me to the beautiful seawall in Cascais.
Sun, sun, sun!!
Yes, those bright, warm days that my country is so well known for, have finally return! I just couldn't take anymore rain honestly. And judging but the amount of people there, I wasn't alone.
The seawall looked like traffic on a Friday at 5 pm for gods sake!
I dressed for the very first time this year a T-shirt (uhuh), my sneakers, put the highest SPF sun cream I have and head off to a chilling walk by the sea. (and brought along my camera but of course)
















It felt brilhant!
Gosh how I missed the 20º C!

Simple, yet beautiful


Hi pretty ladies!
Have you ever been in Cascais?
I went to the lovely village of Cascais and let me tell you it's a complete nightmare to park the car, or even move around in it. They've done a complete mess with the traffic being difficult to reach the center of Cascais for a simple walk. That's why I honestly avoid Cascais.
Being that said it's a lovely place with it's palms trees, tiny streets, the salty smell filling the air. There's a coffee shop in every corner each very welcoming. I always link Cascais to my summer days, full of sun, warm and nothing but free time, no stress, walking around, joking around. It felt good to go back :P

We even went to the oh so well known ice cream shop Santini to eat the most delicious ice creams ever!!
And then my eye got the sight of Arcadia, in the main street with the palms tree. A well renowned chocolate and coffee shop. Sadly they didn't sell coffee but they did sell Macaroons. So I though eh why the hell not, in for a penny in for a pound...I brought 6 home ahahah








I bought 2 of passion fruit (the purple ones), 1 of raspberry (pink), 1 of Port wine (brown) and 2 of peppermint (green). Being the passion fruit and the Port wine my favorite!
What are macaroons? Well they're crunchy on the outside and gooey on the inside. The crunchy part is made of almond, sugar powder, eggs white. The gooey part well it can be anything really, from chocolate ganache to butter cream...Definitely worth the try!

 Also Arcadia has the most beautiful chocolate eggs for Easter, painted by hand, they're really beautiful. Just get inside to see, because the detail they put is out of this world.

 Good weekend and I wish you all a most happy Easter!
Beijinhos***

Guincho, Cascais


Hello pretty ladies!
How have you been?
Guincho. An extremely windy beach perfect for the practice of surf,windsurfing and kite-surfing  It featured in one of the first James Bond movie. You can see the mountain starting at the right. Surrounded by luxurious restaurants. It's truly a beautiful place to visit. Going there works as kinda like therapy, a stress relieved routine. I park the car, open up the window just to feel the cold breeze and breathe the salty smell of the waves for a few moments (thought not enough to falling asleep :p).
And I just so happened to catch Guincho on a bright day, the colors were amazing!






Not even the fact I've been bitten on the foot by a catfish makes me any less inclined to return!
Love it!
Enjoy the weekend and get out of the house!
Beijinhos**

"God to the sea peril and abyss has given"

 
December already. How did it happen?
December is always a rough month for me, everything happening at the same time, it's a lighting speed time for me. And quite frankly family can be exhausting! Add school, work, sentimental life and I'm out gosh let it be over soon.

I'll leave you with a re-found exert from a favourite book of mine, from the time I was smart / intelligent. No more.

"Was it worthwhile? All is worthwhile
When the spirit is not small.
He who wants to go beyond the Cape
Has to go beyond pain.
God to the sea peril and abyss has given
But it was in it that He mirrored heaven."

exert from "Mar Português", A mensagem by Fernando Pessoa.
Have a great week!
Pictures from Carcavelos.
Beijinhos***

Coffee by the harbour



HI there!How have you been? Good I hope
Last Sunday I was pretty much dragged out of bed to take a relaxed walk by the beach, something I haven't done for quite a while I gotta confess, why? life happens and it gets rather busy (and I lazy as hell)
Well after the tantrum I put off I went, and I liked it, and gosh how I missed smelling that deep salty air by the morning, feeling that chilly and reassuring weather by the sea making me take refugee in my hoodie. Talking small talks full of meaning and having that usual tiny cup of coffee.


We ended up going to the harbour of Oeiras where a sufficient amount of people with their kids or grand-kids, besides still being early, were happily gathered. And my friendly coffee couldn't be missing.
A little time after we went all the way back by the beach till the car.


I've been worrying pretty much about the world, the crisis yaddy yaddy....
Sometimes even when everything seems going the wrong way with no sunshine on the horizon you just gotta keep living and believing. 'Cus lets be real, my grandparents and even my parents lived worst and in a time with less food and prospect of a better life and they still made it.
Keep the head held high along with your spirit, Always!
Beijinhos***

Bye, bye beach


For now....
One last day at the beach, with my little sis and my best friend the ridiculous gorgeous and amazing girl Viorika!
Enjoyed the view (always! specially with so many young tourists hell yeah), hearing so many different languages I almost, almost thought I wasn't in Portugal anymore.
We got up late, ate lunch even later, swam a lot, laughed even more, talked for the entire afternoon, we rolled in the sand, did some exfoliation to the skin. An amazing day, the easy & perfect goodbye to the summer of 2012.
We gotta enjoy while we still can.
No!! The sun won't vanish in the next couple of days but my time to enjoy its warm is over.

On the left: my little sis, on the right :me!

The lovely Viorika

That's our house! JUST KIDDING! we wished ahaha
Happy weekend my darlings!
And if it's the case have a wonderful start of the new school year
Beijinhos**

p.s.: I do love coffee (if my blog's name hasn't hinted it yet ahahaha), but I've been cutting down on it, and guess what happened? I get headaches! Not a friendly, shy headache but a mother of all freaking headaches. And stuborn as well, annoying the hell out of me the entire day. XD
So let it be a warming to all of your coffee lovers out there: take it easy!:D
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