Saturday 2nd March 2024. Can you smell the money? My first forest fire arrived without any declaration of war, yet we are now engaged in a battle that has been …
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Have a nice weekend
What is wrong and what is right? If only this were always so clear. A decision had to be taken. It’s always easy to be wise after the event. On …
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What did you lose and what did you gain from the fire? The Karuna Retreat Centre has been totally devastated. Basically, all the structures that existed there disappeared. The forest …
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Every breath connects me to you. Normally, air is an invisible background to my day to day life. I don’t pay much attention to it. But when there is pollution, …
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My most beautiful tree in Lousã. I had made an appointment with the filmmaker and cameraman João Pedro Plácido (aged 39)* at Coimbra station. We planned to walk together through …
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Out and about on foot at almond blossom time
Monchique Mountain Marathon 2017
How far can we still travel using our own bodies and on our own feet? Monchique Mountain Marathon 2017 is an offer to take you on several different guided walks …
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Every forest fire makes our country poorer, much poorer than we can imagine. It sets a whole avalanche of consequences in motion. More CO2 in the atmosphere causes temperatures to …
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My Way
Rota Vicentina: 14 + one day)
Via Algarviana – Rota Vicentina – Rota do Pescador Day 1 – Aljezur – Odeceixe (18 km) On this first day of April, the sky is as I know …
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The scene with long queues and lots of elderly people in the post office is repeated every month. More than a dozen people stand there in a queue and wait …
Read More »Ruins – a realisable utopia
Does Monchique really need a cable car? When organising a town or a city, the most fundamental requirement is, first of all, to define a strategic concept, however utopian this …
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