Then I went to Fábrica do Braço de Prata meeting with the concert organiser lady. She told me the best feedbacks I got in Portugal. She told me that lots of people told her to invite me for a concert so "you must have lots of fans! Lisbon was waiting for you!" - she said. Which means that all the boys and girls who told me that they would help me they really did and talked to the cultural organisers. I love it.
Someone has stolen our GPS from the car during the night couple of days ago breaking the window at the backseat. It was a bad experience... But we got a car repair service 50 meter from home and they fixed it for a very much reasonable price. We got a problem in the bathroom as well and an old lady in the house called a guy to fix it - for free. But we gave him a bottle of great Hungarian wine. He was grateful but we were grateful so much for his help...
We did a journey around in Portugal last week and we went to Spain as well for two days staying in Sevilla at a nice family's flat. Sevilla is unbelievable, elegant and rich - but I prefer Lisbon.
Before we got to Sevilla we were in Sines and in Lagos in Portugal. In Sines there was a huge and enormous fog which is very extraordinary there during the fall. It happens in the winter more often but very rarely in the fall. It was like in a Tarkovskij movie... I found a music centre where I gave my demo stuffs - dvd and brochure - to a lady who promised me that she would give them to the cultural organisers - organizador cultural. And if they need me that will give me a call.
Me walking during the foggy and mystical night in Sines...
In Lagos we were staying at a lady's house called Fatima who was a teacher of Portuguese literature and French language and litareature. We were talking about literature a lot and figured out that she was a fan of Paul Auster just like me. She had couple of books with Auster's signatures. She met him personally! She is a fan of Sandor Marai - me not. She was also very educated in Russian and Checz literautre. Me too. I was looking for a cultural centre - centro cultural - in Lagos and finally found it. We even had the GPS at that time... But the organiser lady was in vacation so I gave my demo stuffs to the receptionist lady. To way back to Lisbon we stopped at Tavaria which was magical as well. Had a fantastic lunch there...
Last week when we were running around like idiots I did not focus on practising. And my level of playing decreased a lot. Which always gives a bad mood for me... But in the last couple of days I practised on a very focused way so it got better.
There is only one but very important thing that I could not solve yet here in Portugal: sporting. I could run at the sea shore in Caparica twice and I found great gyms but they are very complicated and burocratic - so I could even buy a ticket to do fitness - or they are so expensive. I have a pain in my back because of prastising and driving. I hope it will be sorted out somehow in the future...
It is too late so I go to bed - I'll play in Elvas in a Secondary school. Elvas is a marvellous city as well - according to the pictures found on the Net.
