Ponte 25 de Abril (Lisbon)
A cheap and entertaining way to see Lisbon from another angle is to take the ferry to Cacilhas.
Here I was lucky enough to see quite an impressive sky over the “Ponte 25 de Abril” bridge just before sunset.
May 25, 2007
Random post from the past:
Peace Cranes
One of the most impresive sights in Hiroshima are the innumerable brightly coloured paper cranes at the Children's Peace monument. I was told that the origami cranes had become a powerful peace symbol because of the story of a little Japanese girl who developed leukemia 10 years after the nuclear bomb had been dropped. She had begun to fold 1000 origami cranes but died before she could complete her task. Others continued for her and there are thousands and thousands of new cranes every year. ...