I drew it through the Grapevine…

I said it before, we did not buy any coffee cups in Portugal, but this does not mean that we didn’t drink any coffee on our trip. We both really enjoyed to sit in the local cafes, especially Kevin who was spending hours there, reading, waiting for me to do my sketches all over the place. This photo was taken in Miranda do Douro on such an occasion, I was sketching in the town (read the story) while Kevin was sitting on this lovely terrace in the shadow of the grapevine. After a while I joined him, we had a coffee together and I drew a solitary man reading the newspaper.

Very basic colours, I know, but this is really how it was! And as you can see on the photo too, I did not invent the thing with the Portuguese flag: they hang everywhere in Portugal, really everywhere, above all when it is the Football Cup and they are in! And don’t ask me why I deformed the cup in the drawing… I had that tendency in Portugal, to draw like that, all the houses and churches, for example, were tumbling down!

By Miki