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Leaving Porto

Leaving Porto 
It is six o´clock in the morning a woman is cleaning 
the pavement outside a bank, and the café across 
my hotel has just opened. I drink strong coffee and
eat a toast there. Only few people about except for
middle aged women on their way to a cleaning job
in an office or bank, work that has to be done so
before opening time. Not many cars about, they drive 
drive with headlight on, which they must at all time 
if they are new, but not needed if the car is old, which
a think is a rather eccentric law. 

It is a beautiful morning, just warm enough to sit 
outside and I inhale the heavenly aroma of cakes.
Soon I will take the bus home, but as for now I bear 
witness to the birth of a new day in Porto.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2013




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Date: 8/6/2013 1:55:00 PM
Jan - It sounds like such a perfect vacation. The way you took in the morning had dreaming of "the heavenly aroma of cakes." I'm going next Monday for a new knee which I hope will be a great boon to walking. I'm not looking forward to the recuperation. Never had surgery in my life. I'll be in a rehab for a couple of weeks. love, Kathy
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 8/6/2013 4:44:00 PM
o dear, I wish you a speedy recovery

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