Not long ago we got new regular guests. They arrived with the caravan on a trailer just on the day that autumn decided to fall – and made an overwhelming entrance that day! Autumn had come in violently, but apparently that had been a joke, for it instantly turned into an elegant, gentle, beautiful ripe […]
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When I walk up the village-square-stairs with my half-eaten sandwich in one hand, and my glass in the other, my eye catches a lady standing with her back to me in Casa Oliveira’s doorway, talking to the residents. I’m trying to squint to see more clearly. “Who is this … she looks like Nicole Pesch”,
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Paul is an old friend who pops by every now and then. We know each other from the renovation of one of the holiday homes where he has been of inestimable value. I always call him “Paulie” because during that renovation in 2013 he talked a lot about the movie “The Godfather”. “That’s a classic, you
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They’re going back. It’s enough. If you are born in the tropics, then even Portugal is cold! They’re going to Brasil. Back to the summer of Brasil For the carnaval of course, and for Christmas, visiting family and friends. It’s going to be summer there now. And tropical people don’t adapt that easily to more
“Hi, bom dia”, I say with a big smile because it’s a glorious sunny day after a few days of rain, “How are you doing? I saw Molly go to the other side already … I’m sorry but I forgot your name …” “River, my name is River. River sticks.” “Ah, yes, that’s certainly true”,
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Every year we have to wait and see when autumn will come. Will it be early October or late? It’s also happened that they forgot – we were still wearing just a T-shirt in November. This year is clearly very different. The fall fell the day before yesterday That’s crazy early, and it just keeps
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I had everything ready for the two unexpected guests who like to do a mosaic wqrkshop “I already know what I’m going to make,” he said enthusiastically, “the symbols for the elements.” Nicole makes a disappointed face: “Oooo, I wanted to do that!” They look at each other and laugh. Me too. “If you are
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Buying a used car is not easy We drove our little old Opel for years, but since the engine is ticking, it was time for another one. Hugo, son of another mother, warned that that ticking is some kind of a time bomb. Fábio, the newly discovered new garage owner, said the same. No, it’ll
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I was standing next to my bed at 6 o’clock (like every morning in the summer) Had breakfast with coffee and cake (like I do every day – good Portuguese custom: o café de manhã com um bolo) And then it was party time Many dragons defeated this year (but
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It rains. Please note: it’s August. For me it’s a scoop. In all the time I’ve been walking around here, I only know August as sunny and warm and dry. But there’s more then rain falling out of the sky. Cats as well It seems as if it is raining small cats. Our English neighbors
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