Hello from Portugal!

Hey you all!

I'm now writing to show you some pictures that I took yesterday of my country!

The day was really nice and I went to sleep at some friends' place at the seaside, in a place called Troia that's around 50km south of Lisbon. (yeah, you can laugh at the name you italian pervs :P)

Here are some photos!







However now I'm already away from Troia and I came to my family's place in the mountains, in the northeast of Portugal. The mountain range is called "Serra da estrela" which actually means "Mountain range of the star", for some reason that I don't know!

I don't have recent pictures but here are some that my cousin, who lives here, took at winter time! The town you see in one of them is called Manteigas (literally, Butters) and that view is from my grandma's terrace!

Heliport Presentation

This morning Luca and I were treated to a slick presentation for a proposal for a new heliport in Rotterdam. Both Joao and KK had been working on this for a couple of months and it was great to see what they had come up with. It was also nice to finally see the Greg that had been the topic of much discussion.

We both thought the presentation was great - well done guys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKd6MOTw5g

It would be the 18th "anniversary" of the communist massacre later today. Review the bloody incident, and be grateful of how some parts of the world does allow free speech. and no, i'm pretty sure not everyone in the world can see this post.

elena's and thomas' bday