From my collection PAT

1. Travel Advice
People don’t know that
I don’t know
So I just behave as
if I know.
And I go on…
May Haddad’s
Travel Journey
Portugal
May 2018

2. Photo albums: https://www.facebook.com/mayhaddad2015/photos_albums
On-line documents
Portugal in 100 minutes (32 short videos) https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=WTbW1gEygoU&list=PLzMLidHEpohcxSygytej_e_DdMgLAP3J0
Travel Collage Diaries: https://issuu.com/mayhaddad4/docs/travelcollagediaries_2019
https://www.slideshare.net/MayHaddad1/travel-collage-diaries
Among the blogs https://mayhaddad.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/when-fado-mixes-with-porto-2/?
fbclid=IwAR3pfc1GbeRq59mXdAokpbE2a_EUnA-hTtEPYP1Tg9JD6lb-7ihCC2jA8hI
https://mayhaddad.wordpress.com/2018/12/04/portugal-playlist/
May Haddad-Travel Journey/ Portugal May 2018

3. Portugal travel journey
Travel Wisdom
Nobody knows
that you don’t know
So act as if you do…
Sintra
Sometimes it starts
with a photo
Afterwards, the photo
becomes reality
Other times, the reality
was in the photo…
May Haddad-Travel Journey/ Portugal May 2018

4. Sagres
Indeed Sagres
Is World’s End.
Saudaute.
Travel Angels
Look for the clue…
In Lagos, I met two Lui’s
who were there for me…
Contradictions that are not noticed
Mario told me that the winners
are always the ones
to write history,
Yet, he strongly believed that
Arabs were the colonizers
of his country, Portugal.
May Haddad-Travel Journey/ Portugal May 2018

5. Arabic
Arabic in towns’names
Arabic in the Portuguese language
Arabic is absent in
people’s memory.
The Search
In Algavre,
I looked for “Arab”
In Algavre,
I looked for “phoenician”
Have they
disappeared
with the 1775 earthquake
that erased all?
May Haddad-Travel Journey/ Portugal May 2018

6. Back to Lisbon
A new key
A new neighborhood
New discoveries
New possibilities.
One day
A hopeful reminder
To people in the Middle East
Portugal was once ruled
By a brutal dictatorship
Overthrown in 1974…
Alfama district
Where Porto dances
to the tunes of Fado.
May Haddad-Travel Journey/ Portugal May 2018

7. Porto
dances
to Fado
May Haddad-Travel Journey/ Portugal May 2018
Video: The Dancing Porto
Art work by May Haddad

8. Not Found
In Algavre,
I looked for Arab
In Algavre,
I looked for Phoenician
Did they vanish with
the 1775 earthquake
that erased all?
May Haddad-Travel Journey/ Portugal May 2018

9. Promontorium Sacrum
Indeed, Sagres
Is the End of the World
Being there,
Saudaute…
May Haddad-Travel Journey/ Portugal May 2018
Promontorium Sacrum is the Roman term given to Sagres or the end of the world.
Sagres is located in the southern Algarve of Portugal.
Saudaute is a word in Portuguese that implies longing and a feeling of being there once upon a time

10. A hopeful reminder
To the people of the Middle East
Things need not remain the same
A day shall come, when
Oppression ends….
The brutal dictatorship
of Portugal was
Overthrown in 1974…
May Haddad-Travel Journey/ Portugal May 2018

11. May Haddad’s
Portugal May 17-29 2018
Compiled May 2022