What is truly magical about big western cities? For me, one of the things that drove me to London - besides better career opportunities and the offer in culture - was to be able to see so many different people from all around the world living in the same space. Being able to open my … Continue reading NYC Impressions: the very little Little Italy & the very big Chinatown
Train stations. Central Stations. A place where destinies have a very literal meaning. And the grandeur of some of these places is there to ensure either arrival from or departure to a new destiny is celebrated, marked, and deeply underlined in the chapters of our lives. You may just be arriving into the unknown. But … Continue reading NYC Impressions – Grand Central Terminal & the City Beautiful Movement
I know Spring ended a couple of weeks ago, but I had planned this post, and it slipped my mind. Time has just been going by so fast. How come it's already July? I barely felt Spring... and Summer is now here. Officially. Just before it started, I went to see the beautiful roses at … Continue reading The Rose Fever at Queen Mary’s Rose Garden
Famed Central Park. The park in Manhattan is big enough for anyone to completely forget we are in the middle of the concrete jungle that New York City is. The place was once occupied by pig farms, a garbage dump, and African American village, in the 1850s. Twenty years were needed to transform this place … Continue reading NYC Impressions: The Lung
I remember this day very clearly. I was 9 years old, still attending primary school. I remember it was sunny in Portugal, and classes had just recently started. I was home, so it had to be past 3:30pm because that was when my classes ended. Now, memory is a malicious thing and it can be … Continue reading NYC Impressions: the 9/11 Memorial
The Winged Bone 