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Kidzania Park Lisbon

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Theme park for children from the ages of 3 to 15, built as a big city purposefully made so that the younger ones have fun.

The Baby Pool Lisbon

The Only Team Lisboeta, Only-Be, Practical Guide of Lisbon

Water areas thought especially for the youngest children, from 3 months old up to 9 years old, with swimming pools and a children´s park.

Public libraries have always been welcoming places for the homeless. Just think of Paris, whose libraries are inseparable from the image of the clochards, who spend the winter in them. It is said that among the clochards from Paris you find the wisest men and women of the city. If they have attained wisdom as a result of their status in the libraries of the city or if it is something older than that, then the cause of their particular choice of lifestyle continues to be a matter of dispute. It would be wrong however to assume that they are drunk. As the great writer and consummate drunk Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) said “The homeless who drink tend not to visit the library when they have enough money to pay their dosage of wine. However, they hardly find a better place to hang out when they have nothing to eat or drink. After all, at least in the library they can use the toilets for free, they are warm in winter and you can enjoy the silence and infinite possiblities to live other lives. Charles Bukowski knows what he´s talking about. After all, in his youth he was one of those homeless people who drank, read and starved to be a writer. It was in Los Angeles Public Library where he spent decades. After devouring entire sections of books which usually had no meaning at all to him, one day he came across a copy of a novel called Ask the Dust, by John Fante, who definitely set his vocation against any type of adversity as a writer and his... read more