Retalhos da Vida de um Nómada: Douro Internacional

sexta-feira, 4 de janeiro de 2013

HISTORIES OF LOST LOVES - Douro Internacional

Douro Internacional, North of Portugal

After all, the world really came to an end, in the 21 of December. Nobody noticed, but it really ended. And a new start has begun. You´ll see.

Maybe it is time to slow down and think about what direction to follow. That´s what i did with family and friends this week-end in Terras de Moncorvo, superiorly guided by my good friend Beto Areosa, who once had the wisdom of choosing this place to go through his life. Lucky man.

So, flow around with me in the international section of our River Douro, enjoying that smooth peace of its course, blown by my daughter Francisca, in her own words spoken by her voice. I tried, yet i was not able to translate her sweet and mature emotions in english, but you can follow the sense of it in the lyrics of the songs: a Jigsaw (Return to Me) and Boy & Bear (Falling at your Feet). We called it Histories of Lost Loves, meaning histories of lived lives.

Nice duet of the Nomad & Daughter.

Finally i would like to send a big kiss to Isabel, an usual companion of this blog, for her birthdate

HISTORIES OF LOST LOVES - By the Hand of the Nomad's Daughter from nunocruz on Vimeo.

Afinal o mundo acabou mesmo, no 21 de Dezembro. Ninguém reparou, mas acabou mesmo. E um novo começo arrancou. Acreditem.

Talvez por isso, seja tempo de pensar no horizonte a perseguir. Foi o que eu fiz na companhia de família e amigos neste fim-de-semana em Terras de Moncorvo, superiormente guiado pelo meu bom e velho amigo Beto Areosa, ele que um dia teve a sabedoria de escolher este lugar para fazer deslizar a sua vida. Certeiro.

Venham lá daí comigo sentir a calma paz do Douro Internacional, empelidos pelas palavras e voz da minha filha Francisca, que comigo fez este filme (2º episódio para a semana). Nós dois e a Jigsaw (Return to Me) and Boy & Bear (Falling at your Feet). Chamamos-lhe Histórias de Amores Perdidos, querendo dizer histórias de vidas vividas.

Nice duet of the Nomad &; Daughter.

Finalmente, queria deixar aqui um beijo de parabéns a uma companhia adorável deste blog. Isabel

A PhD ON THE ROAD User´s manual

The PhD on the road adventure started in November 2008 and finished in August 2010 and tells the epic event of writing an Engineering PhD while going around the world. The global adventure should be red/seen as the reading of a romance, not all at once. Each post combines text, photos (sometimes small videos), played along with music (in diaporamas) with the respective lyrics being part of the story. Within the whole story, there are small histories that be recognized by the basic title of the movies (movies with the same basic title are chapters of a same small history). The following histories can be found within the whole adventure, apart from some technical and/or isolated movies:

1 - Tuareg (Morocco)

2 - On the Track of Livingstone (Mozambique)

3 - A Love Story (Sri Lanka)

4 - 7 weeks in Tibet (Tibet)

5 - Empires of the East (China)

6 - Making Possible the Impossible (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau)

7 - Uma História de Peão (Brazil)

8 - Arriba Zapata (Mexico)

9 - Learning with the youth (London, Legoland)

10 - Small Things Are Always Great (Porto Santo)

11 - Blowin' in the Wind (Sailing from Porto Santo to Algarve)

12 - Rings of Fire (Guatemala, Mexico and Azores)

13 - When i´m desperate i go talk to my granites (Alvarenga)

14 - Shadows (Alpendorada)

15 - The Thesis (Portugal)

16 - The Obelix Party (Parc Asterix and Granja)

...and after the end of PhD on the road (september 2010), the blog was kept alive with the following histories:

17 - The Nomad Sail of the Soul (sailing, South of Spain)

18 - Nomad Minds (Teaching and tutoring)

19 - Puro Tango (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

20 - Patagónia (3500 km off-road in Argentinian Patagónia)

21 - A New Dawn (Peru)

22 - A Spot of Light in a Dark Horizon (Western Australia)

23 - 4 Questions to Heaven (Portugal & Spain)

24 - Maktoub (Moroco)

25 - Islands of Hope (Cape Verde)

26 - The ISC Family (Brazil)

27 - A Jazz Hour at the Pisco Sour Hour (Peru)

28 - Histories of Lost Loves (Moncorvo, Portugal)

29 - The Adventure of the Railroad (Malawi)

30 - The Power of Women (L´ile de Ré, France)

31 - Irrepressable Poland (Poland)

32 - An African Cross Country (Mozambique)

33 - 7 Seas (Sailing in Creoula, Porto - Cadiz - Lisboa)

34 - The Flight of the Condor (Peru)

35 - We (Mallorca, Spain)

36 - Another Cluster (Rock Mechanics)

37 - Bolivariando (Colombia)

38 - Kissing Africa (Mozambique and Malawi)

39 - The Walk of Life (Lisboa Barcelona in Creoula)

40 - Until the Last Drop (Uganda, Pocinho, Porto, Lisboa and Berlim)

41 - A Son of a Fish Knows How to Swim (Toledo and Aranjuez, Spain)

42 - a Wherever Love (Mozambique)

43 - If I Was Scottish I Would Ce a Proud One (Scotland)

44 - Incredible India (Mumbai and Goa)

45 - Dubai (Dubai)
46 - A Banquet of Nature (Queensland, Australia)

COMBINARTE

My strongest believe is based upon COMBINING.

Combine...
the Olive oil and Water, the Heaven and the Hell,
Art and Science, and Format and Chaos
the Inteligent and the limited, the "Cool" and the agressive,
the Family man and the Adventurer, the domestic and the nigth watcher.
And so the Weak becomes Strong when the Strong Weak becomes.
Imagine Michael Schumacher driving a donkey. What wouldn´t the donkey gain, and how much higher Schumacher would have gone?

A minha maior convicção reside no valor de COMBINAR. Combinar... o Azeite com a Água, a Bondade com a Malícia, a Arte com a Ciência, o Formato com o Caos o Inteligente com o Limitado, o Sereno com o Agressivo, o Chefe de família com o Aventureiro, a Mulher a dias com o Guarda Nocturno. E assim o Fraco torna-se Forte quando o Forte Fraco se torna. Experimentem. E verifiquem os excelentes resultados, sobretudo pelo enorme estimulo à Imaginação e Criatividade. Imaginem o Michael Schumacher a conduzir um burro. O que não ganharia o burro, e quão mais não ganharia o Schumacher.