Trucking Along

Jul 14, 2006 21:00

The reason for the next four days was this quote "... on epic 4WD-journey to Parque Nacional dos Lencois Maranhenses you'll roll past sand dunes and splash through creeks, ducking palms as the untouched landscape unfolds around you." "The best part is getting there," Shurik was very excited about this. I went along. I would be lying if I said I was ( Read more... )

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ulyana___ July 29 2006, 05:53:47 UTC
Tile is not an attempt to fight humidity. It is a Portugeese tradition. All Lisbon is covered by those kinds of tiles inside and outside the buildings (many of them blue). And Lisbon has a really dry climat.
They even do paintings on the tile panels, take them apart tile-by-tile and sell as souvenirs (that was tempting but damn heavy to take on the plane - I ended up bying just a one-tile picture)

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