Happy Friday the 13th from the traffic jam that is the River Tagus, Lisbon, Portugal

This is the great view from our modest third floor walk-up apartment in old Lisbon city. 

What a huge cruise ship came into port this morning, appearing to be just outside our window:

And OMG, another huge one - the tourists are here today!

A photographic study of the cat across the way in Lisbon, Portugal

So, we met a new cat.  We think he's a boy.  He is being really friendly with "the man."

and now, the man has left, and I am going up ...

and out!

and whew!  Now I can use my "litter box!"

I am *not* looking over my shoulder guiltily!

The new and the old of old Lisbon, view across the way from our Lisbon apartment

There is a lot of contrast of very old and very new in this city.  Here are two apartments in the same building.  In particular, the makers of double pane windows have been having a heyday here.  Which one do you like better?

I'm just a teddy bear looking for a new home

Won't you please take me home?

on the Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth in the Third Arrondissement in Paris...

This says it all about our six months in Southeast Asia

at a travel agency in Paris!