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"O Almeida" was a runner on "Buga?" The 1st
Portuguese Travelbug Race Geocaching@PT. The edition was dedicated
to "Calçada Portuguesa", a very typical kind of pavement of the streets
and villages of Portugal. See some photos here.
This TB grabbed 2nd place overall. A very good performance! This could
only be possible due to the dedication and effort from several geocachers,
such as:
NCortes, smrich, GerIRL, fdsanders, Gorgonzola Faction, slackjawedyokel,
AlFran, MAX-X and Prying Pandora. Thank you all. You've helped "O
Almeida" to run 7435miles!
"O Almeida" has now another mission! Please, try to help
him out to reach our cache Walk
in the Park [Lisboa] - GCRH8W, in Portugal.
The pavement is built with hundreds or even thousand of little cubic
stones. The black ones are usually basalt and the white ones limestones.
In Portugal, this form of urban art slowly gets what it deserves. Usually,
people just step on it, but times are changing and now it's almost a luxury
to have "Calçada à Portuguesa" in some houses or streets. If you visit
Portugal, please take sometime to look also at the floor. You'll be suprised!
This Travelbug is also a tribute to someone that "preserves" and cleans
the "Calçada à Portuguesa". The "Almeida" is commonly known as the person
who cleans the streets of Lisbon, Portugal, and also some other portuguese
cities. Calderon Dinis, author of "Tipos e Factos da Lisboa do Meu Tempo
(1900-1974)" wrote that these men were nicknamed this way due to the majority
of them (at least the first) were all from Almeida, a village in Portugal.
These men had and still have, the hard work of putting the streets clean.
As you can probably imagine, it's not an easy work, especially when you
only have a broom, much like this TB, but bigger, of course!
So, here's our little tribute to them. Hope you can help him in the race.
Thank you!
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