A quick surf update first Friday and Saturday I had cool sessions in small and manageable waves. Friday was really a lot of fun and I got a lot of waves. Saturday morning the waves were really small, but the sunrise and solitude made up for that. I’m planning to spend most of this ongoing […]
After my last post a lot has happened even if it’s just been two days. On Tuesday while working the police came for a visit and decided that my parking was actually camping. I’ve been struggling with surfing and now I’m back close to Lisbon in Costa da Caparica. Wild camping is illegal in Portugal […]
I had a fun but tiring day in downtown Lisbon on Saturday and saw a lot of pretty things. I also took a ferry across the river to Almada so some of the pictures below are not from Lisbon really. Some were taken from the different viewing points I visited in and there are also […]
This week sure has had some highs and lows already. The highs mainly from surfing and the frustrating lows from the engine light that lit up again… This is the story so far. Running out of propane Already a couple of weeks ago the first of the two propane bottles I have with me got […]
As I hoped, writing about my misery was helpful. The fever’s gone and my head feels brighter again. Thursday and Friday I worked normally again. And the past three days I’ve been surfing too. Back to full strength, physically and mentally I’m feeling back to normal again. I don’t know for sure what that was […]
I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means […]
I know I’ve been talking about sticking to one place in the past posts. But now I took off to Cascais, a small pretty town about 90 minutes from Baleal. I’ve been here a couple of times before and I’ve always enjoyed the place. Interesting encounters While Baleal is mainly just about surfing, this place […]
Three days into working again. After the shock of the first day it has now started to feel almost normal again. Just the surroundings are somewhat different than at home. Brain softened by five weeks of holiday Monday was a bit tough, I have to admit. The longer than usual summer holiday really did what […]
How’s my antsiness doing? For starters a brief follow-up to the main theme of my last post. I’ve talked to a couple of people here about my feeling of urgency and antsiness. A neighbor I played backgammon with a couple of times told me that he’s seen a lot of the same with people who […]
A question to myself: Why am I always in a hurry to move on? On the weekend I was planning to leave the by Tuesday. Just yesterday I still wrote that I would be going to Spain today. But here I am in Baleal still. Now I’m trying really hard not to run off from […]