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Check out the blog I've started last year. It's a questions blog. Asking questions is liberating - it helps understand the past and live the present. Answering them is stimulating - it builds the future.

It's called 'What? Why? How? When?'. You can find it here http://whatwhyhowwhen.blogspot.com

Work in Progress

Guincho Beach near Lisbon. Great for some surfing!

My pages are a work in progress (just as my life!)

I'm Portuguese and following a nation's tradition I love to travel. I see the World as something unique that deserves to be seen. I enjoy to interact with persons for different cultures and backgrounds.

My hometown is the beautiful Lisboa! If haven't been there you don't know what you are missing. Given it's geographically location is many times outside the path of travelers, to go to Lisboa you must want to go to Lisboa! What you find will surprise you.

I just moved to Bologna, Italy after five years living in Holland, Michigan. I'm getting used to la bella vita!!

Check out my web page with lots of photos from my trips!

Miguel

The Mapmakers - Great Reading for Travel Lovers

The Mapmakers

This is a great book by John Noble Wilford that talks about the story of the men and women that helped build something today we take for granted, maps.

Here is an extract from the book: "The Greco-Egyptian emperor Ptolemy III made a shrewd hire when, in about 240 B.C., he appointed a bookworm and poet named Eratosthenes to be the librarian of the great Alexandrian Museum. Eratosthenes, derided by his envious colleagues as a second-stringer, nursed an insatiable curiosity about the natural world. Acting on hunches and sailors' reports, he decided to conduct an experiment to measure the earth's circumference, which he eventually reckoned to be 46,000 kilometers--a little far off the actual mark of 40,000 kilometers but close enough that both Eratosthenes and Ptolemy entered history as founding fathers of the modern science of cartography."

Intro Updated Jan 30, 2006
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Lilasel Sep 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday!!!
a2lopes Sep 4, 2008 at 8:49 AM Report Abuse

Ciao Miguel. Parabéns por mais um que passa. Saudações de Lisboa que te espera em 2009 (se não antes) para o Euromeeting.
GracesTrips Sep 7, 2007 at 11:35 AM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday Miguel! Fun Albums! Enjoy!
traveloturc Sep 7, 2007 at 12:04 AM Report Abuse

Happy birthday to you from Istanbul/Turkiye...I wish that you realize all your dreams good luck !!!))))
steph4867 Sep 1, 2007 at 12:49 PM Report Abuse

Wishing you a very happy birthday -- how are you?
BROOKS Aug 5, 2007 at 5:41 AM Report Abuse

Miguel, how are you? Interesting pix.
deecat Sep 6, 2006 at 8:26 PM Report Abuse

From Chicago to Italy, I wish you a wonderful birthday.
larigot Sep 6, 2006 at 6:59 PM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday, and warm wishes from Florida.
paula69 Sep 6, 2006 at 5:40 PM Report Abuse

Happy birthday to you. Paula.
lnovak Jun 14, 2006 at 4:39 AM Report Abuse

Hello, I was reading on Virtual Tourist that you might have a number or e-mail for the consumer institute in Sintra. My husband and I shipped home some ceramics from a shop calledEscadinha de Maria and never received it. Thanks!