He’s a better photographer than I am
I recently traded several emails with a reader named Jury from Cologne, Germany. He had visited Porto and seen the building with “PIXO NOT DEAD” painted on the side.
The words had confused him, but then he found our earlier post, Rediscovering Porto, where we talked about the building and the origin of the word “pixo“. He wrote to let me know that the post had helped him understand what he’d seen.
Jury sent me a copy of a photo he took of the building and has graciously agreed to allow us to publish it. We’re happy to share it, since it’s a better photo than the one we took.
The caption at the bottom translates to “”Pichação (Brazilian Portuguese for graffiti) is not dead!”
We know that feeling
Jury also commented about his experience, saying “We liked Porto very much, but much has changed since my first visit in 1988. Too many tourists, and it did not feel so good to be one of them and therefore being part of the problem.”
That comment really resonated with us, since we’ve been traveling for two weeks and have felt like tourists the whole time. We’ll have more to say on the subject in a future post, but for now, thanks to Jury for the photo, and to you for reading.
Until next time / Até a próxima vez
Mary and Mike
The Cook and The Writer
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