Ave Portus Cale!

One country has its history and people, its quiet places, its heights, its shores and shadows, its  anchors and winds,its holidays and music, dances and poetry…and all of that belongs to one road, a fast passing highway, small curved streets breaking each other, emergency landing flight, iron tubes raping through the mountain winds.

While speaking about history of a nation is provocative to the closed-minded, I’ve chosen to silently walk through it, get the impulses of the certain places and things,feel the expressions of the poets instead of listening to some stupid  culture teachers.

So let’s start. A color of a thing would be a first impression of it. This one is red, smiling red, warm sunset, pouring “tinto” in a glass…As red burns you, you heal yourself with the warmth of red…because there is lot’s of red to find here. You are meeting it everywhere, it quiets the ocean, it covers you all, makes you blind, and passes by leaving red in your soul. But it is still warm red, smiling red.

The next impression of a thing would be the power of it. The strength of its dignity and existence. The power of culture and humanity. The castles built to save the dignity of the people, the heights of the flags pulled up in the sky. The power to say sorry to thousands of Jews killed in the Inquisition. The dignity of a modern European country respecting human rights and freedoms. The ability to love your country wherever you are, to love the one who comes to our home and make him smile. There is no need to feel powerless here, many things make your strength and love concrete.

The last thing would be what this road brings to you. How seriously will you get it, will it  leave a stamp to your life in all. Will you go on,make a turn or come back. I would like to say that is a road of joyfulness, a safe place to go at night and fall a sleep safely…but it’s more profound than that! It’s a road you walk your own, feeling and dealing with things by yourself. It is as much as a nice history lesson as it is a direction in your life,a way to give away what you already know,a way to learn more,to outlive more, to love more.