Fluffy-Cloud Wall

Tangier ViewOoooooo! Just look at that fluffy-cloud wall!

I have been sorting through thousands of holiday photos in the last week or two, and I have at last reached Tangier. As soon as I saw this photo again I thought of a lovely spring sky – much like today’s (except it’s still technically winter).

I remember walking down a street of the Tangier medina and seeing that wall ahead. It was like a bit of the sky had fallen down into the dark and dirty maze of streets, and plastered itself against the wall. In delight, I stopped to photograph it. My guide thought I was very strange: after all, it wasn’t a view – it was just a wall!

A week or so previously I had leaned out of my hostel in the Alfama district of Lisbon early one morning, and photographed the glorious summer sky. It was filled with the same storybook clouds and hundreds of wheeling, diving swallows.

How good does sunshine and a blue sky make you feel!

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Lisbon View