Cascais and Lisbon, Portugal | Travel and Landscape Photos | Photo Forum

Sorry for the long absence, it has been a crazy month. 

Before I share some pictures I thought I would share my adventure.  My daughter and myself went on a meditation retreat in Cascais, Portugal for a week, then spent a few days in Lisbon.

On our first night, I fell, quite badly.  Broke both of my thumbs (I thought…more details on that later), horribly skinned my knees and elbows.  I will be scarred for life apparently.  That was over a month ago…and just got results back from doctors that my thumbs aren’t broken, but I ‘royally buggered them up’ as my doctor put it.  So I have gotten steroid shots into my hand…and the swelling and pain is finally starting to subside.

I brought two cameras with me…my Canon Powershot SX50 and my Mamiya 645e medium format film camera (with 16 rolls of film).  On day 3 my Canon just died.  Lens error.   So that ended my taking of picture willy nilly.  I had to rely on film, and be selective at that.

Rest of trip went great…we ate well…very well.  Had great meditations and I got addicted to the most amazing espresso.

Coming home, they pulled me into security with my daughter on suspicion of kidnapping.  Apparently someone told security in Amsterdam that a single man had a kidnapped daughter.  Guess who was the only single man on the flight with a daughter.  Yep…this guy.  It was odd, they made everyone on the plane show their passports, etc before even exiting the plane.  We got questioned then.  Then after getting luggage we had to do it all over again, but this time they interviewed Julianna too.  It was pretty scary actually, but disconcerting because we left Canada with no issue whatsoever.  Coming home however, and it was a big fiasco. 

I sent my camera into Canon, and they repaired it (under warranty).  Not sure of the exact problem but they replaced the entire optics system (according to the paperwork sent with the camera).  Works perfect again.

Got all of the film developed and scanned in.

And now the moment you have been waiting for:

Here a few sample images:

I realize that all of the pictures i have linked to are film.  In the full gallery set there is digital as well.

Enjoy.