The Port of Lisbon, cosmopolitan, the Tagus estuary, point of arrival and departure for Europe and the world. For most of my life Europe was something out there, we were almost outside of it. It was in the early 1980s that I traveled to Europe for the first time, and it was at lake Léman that I found the reflection and enjoyment of the Tagus estuary. I had already noticed the pleasures of the sea but I think that it was among the mountains that I felt the importance of this sea at the end of my street.