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Photos from my Research Journals

As a child, yearning to leave home and go far away…
I read about elsewhere, fantasizing about my freedom. Books were my road. And then, when I was old enough to go, the roads I traveled became the obsessive subject in my own books. Eventually I saw that the most passionate travelers have always also been passionate readers and writers.
– Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel

Portugual



  • Exploring the Algarve on mainland Portugal



  • Private chapel at Quinto do Monte, Funchal, which I fictionalized as Our Lady of the Grapes



  • The “End of the World” at Cabo de San Vicente, Algarve





  • Funchal, capital of Madeira



  • Madeira’s breath-taking coastline



  • Madeira



  • Porta da Cruz, Madeira



  • First sighting of the island of Porto Santo in the Madeira Archipelago



  • Calheta Beach on Porto Santo – Diamantina’s home was at the end of the beach



  • Town square of Vila Baleira on Porto Santo, decorated for a festival



  • Part of the original parish church, Nossa Senhora da Piedade, where Diamantina worked



  • “Barco rabelo” in Porto, on mainland Portugal. A traditional boat used to ferry port wine down the Douro River



  • Wine cellar in the Gaia district of Porto



  • View of Lisbon from high above at Castelo de Sao Jorge



  • Crypt of Vasco de Gama at Mosteiro Dos Jeronimos in Belem, outside of Lisbon. Bonifacio’s body was left at this monastery

  • Destinations

    • Russia
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    Desert Oasis by Kitt Donnelly