“Well what the … what now ?! I do exactly what you ask me to do!” I am getting seriously frustrated with this text message. Whatever I do, I get “Formata da resposta incorreto” all the time. Even if you don’t speak Portuguese, you probably understand what it says. This is the wrong answer! that’s […]
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We suffer from an abundance of babies If it’s not young radishes, it’s the baby snails that eat them. Little birds flying back and forth everywhere to feed their babies. I was busy in the toilet building of the campsite. Not used during the winter, so it wasn’t spic and span. I saw a lot
Everywhere you look, you see babies Read More »
A whole molten glacier is coming down! And it is May! Have the weather gods gone crazy! If this is climate change, I’m not a fan. The blueberry is more of a swamp berry, but fortunately holds up bravely, even though it is right under the drainage point of the roof behind the kitchen. Wasn’t
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Inspired by the link of my brother-in-law (see previous blog), I came across a few impressive musicians. Completely real, not that kind of plastic music, or worse: hip hop. You can’t call hiphop music – sorry, my opinion The only song I ever liked was LLCoolJ’s, and that was in the 80s. Other than that,
If you say Portugal, you say music Read More »
“They” are concerned with statistics. From time to time you have to fill in a survey so that they can make nice statistics. Apparently, statistics are very important. If you have no statistics, you have no data, you don’t know what people need At least that’s the idea behind it. I was in the kitchen
CENSOS 2021 everything you want to know about the portuguese people Read More »
It may have been a long time ago, but the ending of a dictatorship always deserves a celebration in my eyes until the eternity of eternities. If something says trouble, it’s dictatorship. Always accompanied by uncertainty and mistrust. And those are annoying things that you do not necessarily have to look up, because you will
Time to party! It’s April 25th! Commemoration of the Carnation Revolution Read More »
Do you know that Ikea experiment? They’ve put two plants at the entrance of a school. The one plant received nothing but insults, swear words and misery. The other got nothing but compliments and kind words. After 30 days, the difference was obvious. I’ve been talking to my plants for years When I pick the
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Cars are one of the most important things you must have in Portugal. You will be assessed on your car. Basically the same as everywhere. Don’t you agree? By means of your car you show who you are I was in the Cooperativa (a shop for farm-stuff) where a talkative woman was chatting to the
A white, a grey, or better a black car? Read More »
The title says it all: have a nice Easter weekend everyone, have a good rest – hopefully the weather will be nice for you. April has just started. An April-Easter is the best! The most beautiful month of the year. I wish I could also let you smell how this wisteria delights our part of
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When I go in the Lidl in Figueira, I bump into an old acquaintance. “Olá olá Helena!” – but the masked woman doesn’t immediately seem familiar to me. She quickly pulls down her mask when she sees me thinking. “Ah! Professora Ana Paula!” I exclaim in surprise, because it has been years ago that I
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