Comments on: Evora, the magical medieval city (Day 3 of the 12 days of Christmas in Portugal)

By: Sister Mary Pat Cummings

Sister Mary Pat Cummings — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:10:37 +0000

Peigi, I finally stumbled on your web site containing all your articles. As you probably guessed Computers are not my forte. Walt Horn, my musician friend from Chicago with whom I shared an Office, generously taught me the basics. I manage!
I particularly enjoyed the last article I read about touring Portugal in the dark minus the tourists. Julia and I spent a short time there including an October 13th visit to Fatima. 10/13 is THE biggie feast celebrated there with procession, candles, singing… the whole works. It was great. I found Portugal very poor. Maybe it has improved since then. I hope so. You are right. The buildings are magnificent and their coastline too.
The pictures included in the article were very good. You must have a great camera judging from the material accompaning the articles.
I would suggest you consider getting some professional advise on pulling your materials into a book form. Love! Auntie Mary Pat
Julia is doing somewhat better now that her back has healed from the fall. I am able to take her to some of the events on campus. She can now , thanks to our therapy department, pull herself up from a chair and walk a few steps. It makes a big difference.

By: tom lambert

tom lambert — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:58:22 +0000

Gudrun and I just returned from visiting her family in Germany and mine in New England. I am familiar with restoration of colonial aged building in Connecticut and Massachusetts and was pleased at how my eye for preservation in the post and beam buldings from the 1600’s and 1700’s has persevered through my Northwest stay. I was floored by the extent and quality of the restoration of the historic buildings leveled during WWII. Nurenburg was esentially leveled and burnt January 2nd, 1945. Even a practiced eye was hard put to see how these wonderful structures could be so faithfully reconstructured. Travel can be both humbling and exhalting at the same time. The difference is only in how one picks up sides.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:34:06 +0000

Picturing the layers of history is one of my favorite parts of visiting Europe (along with the fabulous food and wine!). We are gearing up to celebrate Virginia’s 400th anniversary, which only reminds me how very young our country really is. Venice was already half-again that old when the first English settlers reached Jamestown! Nothing else has ever made me appreciate the vast scope of history more than walking the streets of Venice and realizing just how long most of those buildings had been there, and how much history that city has witnessed. If only I could go back more often to explore more of the wonderfully layered past that is so common over there.