Sin City

No, this is not a post about Lisbon. :)

I went to the movies with Marika this other night and saw Sin City. In short on the upside, I can say that:
- I did get entertainment all the way.
- The violence level was very seldom lower than extremely excessive.

THE BEST of all was the picture format; black and white with sparse occurences of colour. Wonderful. The cast was impressive as well. Just to mention a few, there was: Bruce Willis, Benicio Del Torro, Rutger Hauer and more and more...

On the downside however, was the story. Or stories. They where all good in their own way and the serialized form in which they were presented was true to the comic strip. However, it doesn't make that of a good movie. They should have made the stories closer connected to eachother, shown more interrelations. Now, it almost seamed like the movie ended three times.

All in all I think it was worth my 5 Euros. If you are Sweden and have to pay 10 Euros, I would recommend you to wait for the DVD.

Anjos

A part of the old town in Lisbon is called Anjos. The houses are in various conditions. Some, like ours, are newly renovated. Others are more or less waiting to be torn down. All in all you could say it looks like a the standard, very old south-european town.

Our appartment is very very nice. Johan, you made a good choice on this one. Our sighted neighbors so far are; two students sharing the appartment to the left and a older man living in the appartment on the right hand side. Plus, of course the woman that takes care of the cute kittens running around the place.

Below our front door (which is up a stair) is a small court yard with two tables and a BBQ. There is also a palm tree which trunk is just barely visible because of some "flowery nice-smelling clanging plant thingy" that has decided to cover it. I think I have seen the plant in a pot somewhere in Sweden. There however, it was certainly not over four meters high...

So now you guys know where we live. :)

Moving to Lisbon - and for real this time.

Johan is moving home to Sweden this weekend. We will miss him, but not his centrally located appartment. You see it is to this very appartment into which we are moving!

Anjous, is the name of the area. It is centrally located with two minutes walk to the subway and ten minutes walk to anywhere.

Marisol is nice. It is very empty though. I definately think we will notice a difference in that respect. :)