On The Go
Quick picks and previews, taken with the phone or processed with the phone, usually while travelling but also random moments from everyday routine.
All the winter festivities in Northeast Portugal have in common warm welcome so common in this part of the country, but each have their own thing, their own vibe. Some are more fast paced than others, some don’t even have masks. At Vila Boa one of the most distinctive features has to be how things are build around bonfires: gathering hay and wood to build them, lighting them, jumping over them… #onthego #portugal #trasosmontes #vilaboa #entrudo #entrudochocalheiro #caretos #fujifilm_xseries #vsco
Back from Northern Portugal, a drive that’s getting more and more familiar to me, and from a place that I’ve been coming back in the last few years by Shrove Tuesday. Back to the masks running through the streets, back to the warmth of the open wine cellars, back to the bonfires waiting for the brave to jump over them (but more on than later…). #onthego #portugal #trasosmontes #vilaboa #entrudo #entrudochocalheiro #caretos
One of the nice perks of hanging out with my local group of Fuji-shooters is that some times we happen to have the local reps with us, that bring some shiny gear for us to play around, just like this past weekend where we went out to our lovely Alentejo region and I got to play a bit with the new X100V. All photos are JPEGs from the camera using Classic Negative film simulation.#portugal #alentejo #fujifilm #x100v #fujifilmxpt #fujixfocus
The festivities related with the winter solstice run from mid December to mid January, with three peaks: Christmas, New Year’s Day and Three Kings Day. Salsas is probably the largest of the Three Kings Day festivities, where the local “caretos” are joined several masked people from the northernwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula, and where everybody finally gathers around the burning “Old Year”. This massive bonfire feels like a perfect spot to end this “winter solstice season”. #snapshot #portugal #trasosmontes #wintersolstice #festadosreis #mask #fujixt3 #vsco
Unlike other festivities around winter solstice in the North Eastern corner of Portugal, that are fast-paced and a bit on the crazy side, things at Vila Chã are more on the cozy side, which doesn’t mean less fun! Even in a ice cold morning like the one today. #snapshot #portugal #festadavelhaedomenino #trasosmontes
The ice cold dawns in Trás-Os-Montes during winter, that covers everything white . #portugal #trasosmontes #fujixt3#vsco
Back to the Mirandese plateau, where the pauliteiros will roam the streets inviting the villagers to the party, dancing or praying at each house, and finishing at the church: the only time of the year they are allowed inside.#snapshot #portugal #trasosmontes #wintersolstice
Besides all the cult and the ritual, pagan or not, there’s one central thing that goes along hand in hand with all the food and drinking: fun! It was like that yesterday at Ousilhão, it was the same today at Grijó. #portugal #trasosmontes
Today was the day to return to Ousilhão, one of the villages in Northern Portugal where ancient masked traditions survived side by side with religious celebrations, and where beneath the fun and drinking there’s ritual more complex than it seems. #portugal #trasosmontes #wintersolstice #festasdesantoestevao
Just making the best of the last hours on Denver. Making the last-minute shopping, going to that place you still haven’t explored, returning to that cool spot you found and want to check one more time. 🇺🇸 #usa #colorado #denver #street
Sunday is match day!!🇺🇸 #usa #colorado #denver #street #denverbroncos #broncos
Back in town… Sunny and calm Saturday, spent chillin here and there in Denver, like everybody else.🇺🇸 #usa #colorado #denver
Amazing what an overnight 25°C temperature drop and a snowfall can do to a place, as white covers almost everything… 🇺🇸 #usa #colorado #rockymountains #rockymountainnationalpark
As expected, the forecast was out for some days, temperatures plunged during the night (to - 9°C) so the morning woke cold and white. That much snow meant that, although open, the roads on Rocky Mountain National Park weren’t recommend for “normal” cars. So I had to stay a bit longer in town, good thing elks come to my motel and there’s a pretty creek by the city centre. 🇺🇸 #usa #colorado #estespark #rockymountains
If Tuesday was mostly spent on the higher areas of the park, Wednesday was on the lower ones, between lakes, autumn colors and elks. And for Thursday there’s a surprise scheduled, lets see how it goes…🇺🇸 #usa #colorado #rockymountains #rockymountainnationalpark
One of the oldest National Parks, and one of the favorites: even on a weekday you meet someone (wise decision to avoid the weekend). I’m a sucker for mountains, so here I’m at home, specially when there’s a breathtaking curvy road going through the park’s higher section, and I drove it the last day before it closes for the winter! 🇺🇸 #usa #colorado #rmnp #rockymountainnationalpark #rockymountains #fujifilm_xseries #vsco
A Monday mostly spent on the road, but that started pretty much the way it started: looking for autumn colors, and between those lots of places in between seasons, closed or almost, after the summer that finally ended and the winter that’s still far away🇺🇸 #usa #colorado
Moving around , and getting closer to Rocky Mountains National Park… 🇺🇸 #usa #colorado #fujixt2
Time to plunge into nature, because that’s that’s one of the main reasons that brought me here. And this is the season of nature putting together its pretty colors. 🇺🇸 #usa #colorado #nature #fujixt2 #fujixe3 #fujifilm_xseries #vsco
Iceland is on my back… Flown over the ocean to another continent, and if I’d blink my eyes too long I’d might ended up in the Pacific coast.🇺🇸 #usa #colorado #fujixt2 #fujifilm_xseries #vsco
