Our office is in the old Chiado downtown area, and I have a pretty nice view over historical Lisbon.

Fuel prices on a Repsol service area, in Avenida de Ceuta in Lisbon, on the drive to work after having dropped my children at school.

Dinner with friends at the Ruca restaurant in Lisbon. This is a very small, not very posh place in downtown Lisbon, which serves wonderful fried shrimp among other things.

A bunch of friends having dinner at the Ruca restaurant in Lisbon, after the http://st-apolonia.org civic event. Most of the people in this photo became friends on online social services such as Twitter.

The Baixa-Chiado subway (Metro) station in Lisbon. It's not officially allowed to photograph, but a lot of people do it anyway. Lots of young tourists mixed with Portuguese commuters looking at an arriving subway train.

The Santa Apolónia train station creates a barrier between one of Lisbon's oldest neighborhoods, and thousands of people must walk a narrow street with very narrow sidewalks to get to commerce, the subway, and anything on the river side of the station. The http://st-apolonia.org/ movement has been trying for years to have the station management open a door on the northern side so that pedestrian traffic can be safely conducted through the station. There are a lot of incidents with pedestrians every year on this street, resulting in injuries and in some cases, people dying.

I work with my family, and I often have lunch with them in restaurants in the area around our office. One of the interesting facts about globalization is the intermeshing of cultures, especially regarding gastronomy, with a wide range of different cuisines available everywhere.

On my morning drive (dropping the kids off at school, then driving to work), I drive a bit more than 20km without leaving the Lisbon city limits, and I get to see wonderful sights such as the Águas Livres aqueduct (18th century).

My wife likes to have her breakfast by the kitchen window, enjoying the (usually) beautiful Lisbon daylight, enjoying some peace and quiet before we get the kids out of bed.

Taking a look at the news, everything these days is about the crisis in southern Europe, austerity measures, the Greek political crisis.