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 »Nº 123 – Ana Pêgo and the unsustainable weight of marine pollution
Saturday 22th January 2022. “People hear the problem, they get scared faced with this problem and do want to change, but end up considering that it’s very hard and they …
Read More »Nº 122 – Emission-free cooking and baking: for free and outdoors
Saturday the 15th of January 2022. It happened in 2016 and in 2018, then again in 2020 and once more now in 2022: every other year Faro hosts a meeting …
Read More »Nº 121 – Empathy
Saturday 8th January 2022. Our dear friend, Bal Krishna, is dead. Bal just made it into the new year, before dying in the evening of the first day of 2022 …
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 …
Read More »A New Home in Salir
It’s a small house with two bedrooms in a quiet valley. Casa da Avó, which was once a ruin, comes together with a small permaculture area, the sheep Debbie, two …
Read More »“What I really like is versatility…”
Versatility is one of his favourite words, almost as if he believes that, once we have come into the world, we are ready for anything, for whatever the Universe wants …
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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 …
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