Eco123 Revista da Economia e Ecologia
Saturday, the 18th of November 2023. Fancy an ocean with a mountain view in the south of Portugal in early December, in the Monchique mountains, with the Atlantic stretching out …
Read More »Festival de Caminhadasuma curta história de Uwe Heitkamp
Travel
Nº 139 – Off to Portugal… by Rail?
Saturday, the 17th of December 2022 Now, the other day I was reading in ECO123 that the town of Monchique was threatened with extinction. And the same magazine carried an …
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DAY 6
Salir – Cortelha – Barranco do Velho
Right, the first one hundred kilometres are behind me. It’s turning out to be easier than I’d envisaged; after all, I’m hiking without previous training. The advantage compensating this lack …
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DAY 5
From Alte to Salir. Moorish Fountains.
19 km. I’ve now arrived in the heart of the Algarve. To be journeying on foot also means to gain direct contact with the people and their environment. And isn’t …
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DAY 4
From Messines to Alte
I order my breakfast from next door. The price is 2 euros and forty cents and it’s eight o’clock when I hand over the key at reception and walk …
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DAY 3
From Funcho Reservoir Lake to Messines.
São Bartolomeu de Messines is the town associated with the writer, educator and legal expert João de Deus Ramos, who was born here in 1830 and went on to gain …
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DAY 2
From Silves to Lake Funcho
Waking up, I turn on the light and find myself in a 45-euro room in a guesthouse that will accept my dog: the landlady is charging five euros extra for …
Read More »Epilogue – In the South: Journeying on foot
One early morning on my Algarve trail I keep thinking about a dream, a story I‘d still like to tell here. The dream is about a group of young people …
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In the South: Journeying on footDAY 1 – Thirst – an unexpectedly great one
On a Sunday in October in this warm and dry year, at the tail end of a summer that shows no signs of wanting to end, I pull the door …
Read More »Nº 109 – Reality
Saturday 9th October 2021. Who actually determines our future? Children pass through different stages in their lives where the future becomes an everyday reality: it becomes their normality. But what …
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