It’s been a while since my last post. I kind of fell back into normalcy after I got back home in the beginning of December. Some things at home felt nice and easy, like warm water coming from the tap practically instantly and having an oven for example. But the winter and darkness was not […]
It’s hard to believe (and even to accept), but the time has come to head back home. These have been quite the sixteen weeks and this won’t be the end of the story. I’m at the campsite in Lisbon for another night and tomorrow in the evening I’ll start the journey back. A visit to […]
Two weeks have gone by since my last post. There’s not been that much new to tell really, but I’ll sum the past two weeks in this post. Switching between Baleal and Caparica As I mentioned in the last post, I went to Baleal with Ana for a weekend and we did some sightseeing there. […]
Throat trouble I mentioned fever in my last post. Luckily it was a short thing, but after it went away my throat really started hurting. On Monday it got so bad I couldn’t sleep much and my ear started bothering me too. Tuesday I decided it was enough and went to see a doctor. After […]
Giving up on Spain One of the goals of my trip was learning Spanish. I’m still doing it with Duolingo, but learning it in a real environment is not going to happen this trip. Life here is just too comfortable. I remember complaining to Ville at the beginning of the trip that I was afraid […]
Weather update Two weeks ago it really felt like the summer was going away. But this week I’ve had to work from outside Naranja again. Even here on the coast the temperatures have been close to 30 Celsius. The wind has calmed down a lot too. But there’s a weird gloominess especially in the evenings […]
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 […]