Monday Murals - Cascais III

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.

Thanks Sami 

Murals in Bairro da Torre in Cascais.  I had photographed them a year or two ago, but  hadn't posted them yet. Both were painted for the Cascais Infinito Festival 2018.

“Someone will take a piece of you forever” for  painted by Portuguese artist Mr Kas, who was born in Porto in 1980.

"The World is yours", at Rua das Caravelas 336, by Colectivo Rua - a group formed by the artists: Contra, Draw, Fedor, Ivan, Oker, Mash, Mesk, Podre, Third, TheCaver and Virus.

                         

I've posted the mural at the end - "Under the Sea", painted in 2016 by Kruella D'Enfer

I spotted this while walking from my parent's house to my sister's house, painted on an access ramp to a house, but don't know the artist. 

It reminded me of the famous Michelangelo fresco on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel -the "Creation of Adam".

Monthly Wrap-up : July - and Signs

Joining Tom for Signs. Please check this link for signs from around the world :)

Tuesday 1st -Start of new financial year.

I had a consultation with a optician to check on the sudden appearance of eye floaters and foggy vision. I had a change of glasses in November 2024, so thought it was too early for these sudden changes which I attribute to the medications I'm taking for the psoriatic arthritis. The optician thought it could be dry eyes and prescribed some drops, but they aren't helping at all.

Saturday 5th - spent part of the day helping Jose cut down branches from our lemon tree. This year the tree was full of citrus gall wasp (lumps on branches) that can eventually damage the tree and reduce fruiting.

Thursday 10th - Full moon.

Photo taken at the end of my street

Friday 11th - Jose and I had lunch with friends W and L at Mela Indian restaurant in the city, too chat about their upcoming holiday to Africa and Europe. Food was just ok and both men, who had eaten spicy prawns had mild gastro issues. 

Various curries and avocado ice-cream

Weather outlook for the upcoming week - from Sat 12th

Saturday 12th - Jose and I attended the "Ageing Well Expo" at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. Even though we thought we might be a bit too young for this type of information, the visit was quite informative and we came home loaded with pamphlets about services, etc. we might need in the future.

Perth Convention Centre (on the right)

At night we readied ourselves to go to dinner with our friends Mena, Tony and Kei at 7 Spices Indian Restaurant - Indian weekend it appears! And Jose had thought of making prawn curry for dinner on Thursday, but I told him I had booked an Indian restaurant for Friday 🤣 but didn't know we would be eating Indian on Saturday too!

Sunday 13th - Little P's 5th birthday at a Jungle Gym.

Wednesday 16th - meeting with our financial advisor to discuss our plans for our retirement income.

Friday 18th - I met up my just retired colleagues Sue L and Sue J and Dr S. for lunch at Praline French Cafe in Mt. Pleasant.

The colleague that had started working in May (the one that lived 70km away from work), decided to quit, and this was her last day. That left us again in a difficult situation as we were again short staffed, with 2 ladies having retired end of June, 2 part-time students and me, who unfortunately feels compelled to hold it all together! My boss had been on holidays and had just returned 4 days before that young girl left... All very messy and my stress levels at all time high!

So glad I had already told my boss I was retiring at the end of September, at that stage I was ready to go right there and then!

Sunday 20th - after the sunny day, we had a very cold, wet and stormy day in Perth! We stayed home all day.

                       

Monday 21st - I found ice in my car window, and had to pour water over it before driving to work. It was 3°C at 7,20AM.

It showed 3C when I started the car at 7,20 am to drive to work

Wednesday 23rd - I joined some friends of my italian friend/neighbour Maria at her house for an Italian themed dinner and I was responsible for bringing dessert.

Thursday 24th  - We woke up to the coldest morning in 15 years, with a temperature of 0.3°C at 6am. The maximum temperature reached 15°C.

Ice on the window

In the afternoon a truck picked up our "green verge collection" (twice yearly collection).

Jose is coming to the end of an online "Cyber security" course and that evening we attended the end of the course presentation at a bar behind Burswood Casino.

Nibbles and soft drink were free, beers could be bought for a fee. There was music, dance, and lots of games with prizes. It was a fun night and Jose got to meet the lecturer and course colleagues.

View of the 2 bridges seen from Burswood

The bar full of students having fun - Burswood Hotel

                      

They had a photo booth, which was quite popular with lots of props to choose from.

Sunday 27th   - 41 mm of rain fell in Perth, making it the wettest day in Perth in over 1 year.

Jose and I had lunch at a Chinese restaurant we had never been to - Emperor's Kitchen.

           

When we got home we had a slice or two of a tiny "Honey cake" from Madeira, that a friend had given to us a few months ago.

              

Monday 28th - Managed to buy tickets to Ed Sheeran's concert in Perth at the end of January 2026. So looking forward to it!

My number in the queue

Wednesday 30th - Sandra, a wonderful strong lady that I met a few years ago at one of our Portuguese get-togethers died after battling ovarian cancer for 5 years. She was looking forward to her 50th birthday party at the end of November 😢.

Sandra on the left and me next to her

Monday Murals - Cascais II

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.

Thanks Sami 

The next two murals from collaboration for the 6th Infinito Festival in Cascais, Portugal, painted in September 2024.

The first mural painted by Gonçalo Mar & Kiam, can be seen at Rua das Caravelas 23.

It represents an anonymous face that wears the symbols of its community.

                       

The fourth and last mural of the festival was painted by the duo Huariu & Jiotattoo. Jio was a newcomer to mural painting. It can be seen at Rua Maria Auxiliadora.

     

        

Monday Murals - Cascais I

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.

Thanks Sami 

Murals painted for the 6th edition of the Infinito Festival, which was held from the 1st to the 8th of September 2024 at Bairro da Torre (Torre district) in Cascais (Portugal), 

The theme for 2024 was "Collaboration", bringing together four pairs of artists to paint 4 murals - "collaboration makes us stronger".

The first one "O Mundo é teu" (The World is yours") - was painted by AddFuel & HalfStudio, and can be seen at Rua das Naus.

                   

My parents took a photo with the artist Add Fuel aka Diogo Machado, when he was painting the mural and sent me the photo. I then sent them a photo with the artist when he was in Perth painting a mural at Curtin University in 2016. The following day my parents went by the mural and showed him the photo and he remembered  meeting me.

April 2016- Diogo Machado with me, and September 2024, with my parents

 

The second mural just across the street, was painted by Moami31 & Youthone - a mural rich in symbolism, colour and details, portraying a message of strength, vitality and unity.

                                  

The street (Rua da Torre) showing both murals

The mural that AddFuel painted at Curtin University in Perth:

https://sami-colourfulworld.blogspot.com/2016/04/monday-mural-taste-of-portugal.html

Monday Murals - at Vila Nova da Cerveira

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.

Thanks Sami  

When we visited our long time friends C&M, who now live in the very pretty town of Vila Nova da Cerveira (north of Portugal, bordering with Spain) we spotted some murals around the small town. 

In Rua 25 Abril 1, (25th April Street), on the walls of the Cine-theatre, ia a 10mt high mural, painted by Juan Domingues, a Venezuelan artist, son of Portuguese immigrants. It is a tribute to the artist Henrique Silva, one of the founders of the Cerveira International Art Biennial - and portrays the "eternal master of the restless" in his youth and presently.

 

On the other side of the cine-theatre is an 8 meter high mural entitled "Gaps in memory", which was painted over 4 days in 2016, by Brazilian artist Elton Hipólito, portraying the master José Rodrigues (1936-2016) - a Portuguese artist known for his work in sculpture, drawing, illustration, and scenography.     

The artist chose to paint using natural pigment paints, with light and dark soil collected from 2 different areas in the region, which at the same time draws attention to the problem with fires in the area.

Just down the road, another mural by the same Brazilian artist Elton Hipólito, painted in April 2019, measuring 17,50mt x 4,30mt and entitled "Women of the April revolution", portrays writers Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa - or the "3 Marias", to perpetuate freedom of expression, marking the 45th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution (25th April 1974, a military coup that overthrew the dictatorship and established a democratic regime, without a single loss of life) 

At Praça do Alto Minho (Square of the Upper Minho) , artist Acácio de Carvalho commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Cerveira International Art Biennial.

The following two murals were spotted inside the old fortress in the nearby town of Valença.