Aveiro - Around the Hotel Melia area - 16th to the 18th of September 2016

Most of the pictures I was able to take during the Techdays Fair were either fairly early in the morning (external) and in late evenings (interior) and mostly  in the canal around the Hotel area, once we were at the enterprise stand all day long.

Both the hotel and its surrounding area were particularly interesting, though it wasn't but on Sunday, when the fair was over and before getting back to Lisbon, that I finally managed to take pictures of different views (including to rather exquisite graffitis) as I walked a bith further into the town centre still along the same canal.

Aveiro - Some moments of our presence at the Techdays fair in Aveiro - From the 15th through to the 17th of September 2016

I joined the group of NAV's representatives at the Techdays Fair (the head of the operational training, two colleagues from the Cabinet of Image and Marketing and the responsible for the Human Resources Department at Administration level) by early afternoon on Thursday, with the Head of the Cabinet of Image and Marketing having already left and the Head of the Training Centre and an Air Traffic controller instructor at nthe Training Centre who joined us later that day. 

Because of having been the first time we participated in such an event we didn't exactly know what to expect. Having in mind the forthcoming Air Traffic Controllers' sellection process we did what we could to disclose as much information as possible therewith related by directly addressing young people who were visiting the three day event, handing them out informative brochures and even carrying out an open conference on the subject matter.


We soon realised that not many people are aware of what an Air Traffic Controller is or does and the important role he plays. It was clearly up to us to spread the word and further expand the importance a company like ours has.


We all feel our presence at the Fair has been of exreme importance, even if the results might not be immediately noticeable, or so noticeable in the next sellection process, mainly because of timing constraints.    

Fla.Co.Men by Israel Galván at the great Auditorium of the Cultural Centre of Belém, Lisboa - The 9th of September 2016

I nearly missed this second to none performance by Israel Galván but I am glad I made an effort to go and see him at Centro Cultural de Belém.

Prior to having bought the ticket the month before I had checked on some of his performances in the internet and had concluded he was not only an incomparable dancer but also a daring person who having pushed beyond the flamengo boundaries was nonetheless attached by the best flamengo tradition.

"He dances alone on a bare square, scratching the silence with the lone, dry hammering of his zapateado (...) he deconstructs syntax again, cleaving the memory of his earlier pieces and captures on-the-fly figures that he charges with a new electricity. Without restraint, he delivers an eccentric maestria and sometimes irony to the rhythmic loquaciousness of a wonderful bunch pf musicians and flamengo singers. Israel Galvan does much more than dance, he creates a sparkling constellation". - Jean-Marc Adolphe

Direction, coreography and dance - Israel Galvan
Musicians - David Lagos, Tomas de Perrate, Eloisa Canton, Carafe, Proyecto Lorca (Juan Jimenez Alba and Antonio Moreno
Artistic direction and Sevillanas coreography - Pedro G. Romero
Direction and Alegrias coreography - Patricia Caballero
Lights - Ruben Camacho
Sound - Pedro Léon
Costumes - Concha Rodriguez

My half day in London - The last moments - Covent Garden area - The 8th of September 2016

My last moments were spent around the Covent Garden area before having got onto a train to Stansted aiprot and Mia having got on a train of her own heading to Wareham. Covent Garden brought about memories of when we went there together for the first time eighteen years back.

 

We listened to a powerful opera singer as we sat having a lasagna for lunch at one of the many outside Café-restaurants. The weather was extremely hot, this I believed being one of the main reasons as to why my feet were in such a "bad state".

 

Having to walk a bit further was really painful and although I knew I had to make it back to St. Pancras train station to grab my backpack and leave, there were moments in which I felt I wouldn't be able to make it. We stopped several times on the way to take pictures and watch some street performing acts, which helped me in a way but also made me aware of the sate I was in.