Summer is here for a while now, and this morning, having felt a seashore odor as soon as I stepped out of my building, I remembered the relaxing moments ahead.

After several years of just going there for two or three days on a row, I’ll be spending about a week at my grandparents’ house near Porto in just a couple of weeks. I can’t wait to go to downtown Porto with my grandmother like I used to when I was younger, though this time walking more slowly since she’s older and can’t walk as easily as before. This means more trips there, but that’s fine since one of the things I most liked to do on my vacations as a kid was to go there with my grandma. Lots of Photo-taking will definitely happen. I’m just wondering if I’ll buy another Memory Stick Pro card (which is kind of expensive here in Portugal - I’d prefer importing it from Hong Kong through eBay and pay about half the price), or if I’ll have to take my portable laptop so I can transfer the photos from the camera to it every day so I can free up space and take more photos. I wasn’t really feeling like taking a laptop, since it takes up luggage space, and adds to the weight I’ll have to carry, but I guess that will have to be the way to go about this.

After this, my sweetie will return from Croatia and we’ll slack in the general Lisbon area, maybe going sightseeing, and to the beach and moving some more stuff to the house, I’m guessing. :p

Other than these days, I’m going off on a romantic weekend in a couple of days with my boyfriend, to revisit somewhere I used to go on vacations as a kid. It will probably be very different now, but I’m hoping it retained at least part of its beauty. I’ll take photos (I’m becoming a photo-taking addict) and post some here and my flickr account.

I’ve been feeling really tired and stressed lately, but I’m hoping all of these activities will help me relax and get ready to face more work.