Today was the Festa de SANTA CLARA, there was procession and all... pics to follow when I sober up!
I would write more if I could, but I cant... :)
Today I swam in the open sea for the first time since I am on holiday here in the AZores! Amazing!
I encourage everyone to come visit the islands... you will not regret and never forget at the same time.
sc
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Saturday, September 04, 2010
MY COUSIN JOSE TORRES DIED! A SAD DAY FOR PORTUGUESE SOCCER!
Today the Blog is in Honor of my second cousin removed Jose Torres. His father was brother to my father's father, my grandfather Sidonio Da Guia Senica.
Torres was a major personality in Portuguese Soccer and we will all miss him in Portugal, the country is mourning his passing, so am I and my family.
Below is a text I got from the internet, in english, summing up Jose Torre's Bio.
LISBON: Portuguese football is in mourning for Jose Torres, star centre-forward in the mid-1960s of both Benfica and the national team who finished a best-ever third at the 1966 World Cup finals in England.
Torres. who has died at 71, succeeded veteran captain Jose Aguas at the centre of the Benfica attack and, with his height and strength, provided an ideal foil for the power of top-scoring team-mate Eusebio. He scored 14 goals in 34 internationals and won nine league titles and six domestic cups with Benfica.
Born on 8 September 1938 in Torres Novas, Torres joined Benfica at 20 and was three times a European Champions Cup runner-up with them, in in 1963 against Milan, in 1965 against Internazionale and in 1968 against Manchester United at Wembley. He retired in 1980, aged 42, having scored 217 goals in 384 games in club football with Benfica, Vitória Setubal and Estoril-Praia.
He later coached Vitória and Boavista and guided Portugal at the 1986 World Cup finals in Mexico. Despite beating England 1-0 in their opening game, Portugal were eliminated at the group stage.
Torres had been suffering from Alzheimer's.
From: http://www.sportsfeatures.com/soccernews/story/47376/jose-torres-the-perfect-foil-for-eusebio-with-both-benfica-and-portugal
Friday, September 03, 2010
HA FESTA NA ALDEIA!
Without knowing, and I did not really plan to visit the Azores that well, I arrived during the week of the festivities of SANTA CLARA the Saint that gives name to my street, Santa Clara...
As I write now, there is music outside just 2 minutes walking from my house (my parents), from our balcony we can see the church all lit up and pretty ( I will post a pic of this... its a must see...).
I am going to bed now with the music of PIMBA singers and some Regional Folklore singing, its total BLISS just what I needed for my holiday! :)
God Bless tradition!
I do not join in because its not my thing anymore, but I aplaude and encourage those who do. My parents have been collecting money for these festivities for a couple months now, my mother collects the donations from all our neighbours and my father helps with work, normally that means he cooks for the food stands held at the party.
It feels like I never left the Azores!
E o Mesmo e Mais Forte!
As I write now, there is music outside just 2 minutes walking from my house (my parents), from our balcony we can see the church all lit up and pretty ( I will post a pic of this... its a must see...).
I am going to bed now with the music of PIMBA singers and some Regional Folklore singing, its total BLISS just what I needed for my holiday! :)
God Bless tradition!
I do not join in because its not my thing anymore, but I aplaude and encourage those who do. My parents have been collecting money for these festivities for a couple months now, my mother collects the donations from all our neighbours and my father helps with work, normally that means he cooks for the food stands held at the party.
It feels like I never left the Azores!
E o Mesmo e Mais Forte!
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Everything looks smaller...
I walk to the gym everyday, its just a 15 minutes walk that I do with pleasure.
I take the same root I would take to go to hight school when I was in attendance centuries ago, Escola Secundaria Antero de Quental. I pass the school and in an additional 3 minutes I am at a gym, at a new hotel close by. Its a small gym but very well lit with natural light. I like it.
Today I noticed that all the streets are smaller, all the houses and doors and buildings in my way to the gym are smaller... the gardens are smaller the benches are smaller... the only thing that remains the same are the smells, a sweet and salty smell of humid atlantic air, terrible if you want to dry your clothes outside, but so nice when you have as background the sound of the waves crashing agains the rocks!
I love these islands, so much of them make what and who I am today. I travelled the world and I still think that the AZORES are the most beautiful place in the world!
sid costa
I take the same root I would take to go to hight school when I was in attendance centuries ago, Escola Secundaria Antero de Quental. I pass the school and in an additional 3 minutes I am at a gym, at a new hotel close by. Its a small gym but very well lit with natural light. I like it.
Today I noticed that all the streets are smaller, all the houses and doors and buildings in my way to the gym are smaller... the gardens are smaller the benches are smaller... the only thing that remains the same are the smells, a sweet and salty smell of humid atlantic air, terrible if you want to dry your clothes outside, but so nice when you have as background the sound of the waves crashing agains the rocks!
I love these islands, so much of them make what and who I am today. I travelled the world and I still think that the AZORES are the most beautiful place in the world!
sid costa
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
I Posed as a Daddy ! :)
Today I went to the largest shopping mall here in Ponta Delgada with my sister, her husband and my niece. While they were shopping for groceries I strolled around the shopping mall with my niece on her baby wheels! I looked like a nice sweet daddy and enjoyed all the looks of the young ladies who with their yes were saying "sweet... hot daddy... " :).
I DECIDED!
I want a baby, who is up for it?
:)
I DECIDED!
I want a baby, who is up for it?
:)
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