Portugal and the Paper Players

Nice to  be back! Thanks for all your good wishes for our Wedding Anniversary. From Wednesday until Sunday I have been in Portugal with DH. We escaped all the stress of the painting work that had to be done in our house too! We were in the North west of the Country in Porto, next to the Atlantic Ocean. Porto is a beautiful big City. I wasn't used to all the noise and the busyness but just to have a break and a change of scene did wonders for us. And above that, we had gorgeous weather every day reaching up to 31°C. Now we are home the weather is blustery and rainy and I even looked and saw that it is the same kind of weather now in Portugal too - so we just must have picked out the right time.

Here are some photos, which were the best I could do as I only had a little pocket camera with me.

This is a beautiful flowering fat-plant which we found near the coastal areas. It was to be seen in yellow as well.

My DH standing near a very old Church. We were sight seeing in the old City. We also saw a lot of poverty which broke our heart. Seeing the beggars and the homeless made a big impression on us.

I have seen pictures of Italy and I think that this looked very much like it.

So this is what I took with me because I wanted to try out some watercolor  sketches as I had seen this just before I left.
This was the best I could do but I am aware that it does need quite a bit of practice! I had to do the vase freehand.

I am going to enter this into this challenge. This is the sketch requirement:

That was it for today - hope you are all well!