my oh my, i cannot believe we are heading back to Ireland today!! Portugal has been so very amazing, and has brought has many lessons about ourselves and people and the world and its wonderful plant species. I am currently sitting in our hostel in Lisboa, which is a really cool city. It feels sort of like San Fransisco, with really steep hills, accept there is all cobble stone here and white buildings and really OLD vibes. We went on a cute little walking tour that was free, last night, after dinner, with some people from the hostel. It was really neat to explore and hear about this amazing old city. We even got to hear some live Fado music, with a wonderful older Portuguese woman singing her ass off! We also went to a couple really nice view points and saw this legendary old street filled with some amazing street art!
We showered when we got here yesterday, first shower in 3 weeks! Jumping in a river daily, does wash you up, but the hot shower really gets the lingering grime off. We even have used toilets! and toilet paper! Clio and Adrian's quinta was really very beautiful, and a paradise indeed...but that hard work and clearing brambles on a, say, 45 degree incline of a slope, really tired us out! We actually developed quite the nice bond with both of them by the time we left, and we will remember our experience there quite fondly. Definitely learned a lot of patience and strength of will and mind, and also body! The vally that they lived in was filled with different types of people, mostly estrangeros, which is like X`pats...and really formed a nice community that we got to hang out with a few times, at the square, and at different markets and gatherings they all went to. The vally has a river that runs through it, and that was our swimming pool and drinking water, and also some of the properties have levadas, which are stone channels, dug up which have existed there for WHO knows how long! This is how they water the garden, and hopefully some day soon, operate the olive press! [which is on Clio and Adrian's land and used to run abot 60 years ago, and probably was running way before that as well...but the whole structure which Adrian is uncovering and bringing back, is really quite astonishing.]
fond fond times in portugal. our feet are dirt stained and our tan skin goes as deep as our grateful souls.
back to Ireland we go! Flying into dublin at about 1 today, and then taking a 3 hour bus ride to Galway where Gwen will pick us up!
looking forward to our next experience, and even for those green green hills, and speaking the language of the common folk will be nice for a minute or two. (ha!)
love to all,
and presence to now.
namaste!
-mimi
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