little_tippler

Hey everybody,

just thought I'd let you guys know that Lucifer, Hagatha and I will be getting together for dinner in Lisbon on Saturday the 23rd of September and I'm thinking is this possibly the 1st TFP get together across the Atlantic? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

This is also my first meeting with TFPers and I'm really excited that it has become a possibility...since most of you are in the States or Canada. It's funny how I've become so attached to the TFP despite that distance! Just goes to show how the world is becoming a smaller place every day...even though every day there's millions more people being born and populating this big old world.

Also to say that if anyone is in the vicinity on that day, fell free to PM me and you can come too! I promise to bring my camera and take a few pics to share with everyone who can't make it...which is probably most of you

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To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

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Lucifer

Hey menina, we are in Porto now, and were about to email you to set up the meeting. We are arrive in Lisbon on the 22nd and are staying in Lisbon at "Hotel Real Parque", and you can leave a message for us at the hotel with directions for making it to the meetup. It´s fun being back in Portugal, drinking lots of SuperBock and cafe, eating francesinhas and brushing the dust off my limited Portuguese skills. We are looking forward to seeing Lisbon. I lived in Porto for 3 years, but almost never went to Lisbon.

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Bill O'Rights

So far as I know...you're correct. you have the express distinction of crossing that milestone.

Be sure to take lots of photos.

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little_tippler

So here are my photos of our meet-up, we ended up getting together Friday and Saturday, these are from Friday as we didn't take any shots on Saturday!

We had a great time and it was weird but wonderful to finally meet people off the TFP.

We went to dinner in an area of Lisbon called Bairro Alto that is famous for its night-life, to a Fado house. Fado is a type of song that originated in Lisbon, that talks of longing and sorrow. Usually it is accompanied by portuguese guitar. It sounds really sad and mournful and can be very beautiful. In a Fado House you have dinner while at intervals different fado singers sing for you.

So this first shot is of the Fado performers, and gives an idea of the atmosphere in the restaurant:



And here we have the lovely Hagatha, who did not want to be photographed!



And here is...our friend Grommit, out on the town and enjoying some portuguese beer!



This is the only group shot we took, hagatha and Lucifer, and me and my date



Then we left the restaurant and headed to an Irish pub, and here is a shot we took on the way:



And what is this you ask? Why it's a shop selling tennis shoes and bags...really. Bairro Alto has the quirkiest stores - hagatha originally thought it was some sort of art installation. It could have been! Gave me new ideas to do up my house

I took this shot of Lucifer and hagatha (and Grommit) in a famous square where a lot of students hang out at night. It was a particularly interesting night because all the street lights had been covered with red paper and some parts of the city were glowing red. I have no idea why though!



This is Lucifer with Grommit at the pub we ended the night at:



We had a great time and it was pretty awesome to actually meet some TFPers! Now for the next meet-up, I guess I have to come out to North America huh?

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

Charlatan

Damn! That is just so cool.

Great to get a glimpse of Hagatha and even better to see all of your smiling faces having a good night out. Wish I could have been there...

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Lucifer

those are excellent and I'm glad you posted them, because mine came out terrible! Yes, for the next meetup you've got to come to Canada or the States, unless you want to hang out and wait for me to come back to Portugal in June 2008 for Sao Joao in Porto.

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Carno

Wow, I can't believe I missed this thread! It looks like you all had a great time together.

Nice pictures, and that is quite an interesting shop

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abaya

Yeah, wow... how did we all miss this?? to the Transatlantic TFP! Y'all look great.

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