the answer to the video i published yesterday. from finland!
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these are rita's pics the hitchiking to aljezur to meet iris iris and ourselves in arrifana beach some silly pics (yes, we're all this short) and a final adventure crossing a river, followed by a bee sting, more hitchiking, vila do bispo, and sleeping in a backyard while it rained.
after, i returned to lisbon. my journey started in zambujeira do mar. i joined two friends who were doing it since almograve there. it was something like this, and we tried to be as close to the ocean as possible, though sometimes we had to go inland to find a good track. the paths were all unmarked, the weather perfect, the landscape: the most beautiful i've seen in portugal. i was quite happy with myself as it was not as hard as i was imagining, or i'm not as bad as i always imagine. these pictures are from an old camera luis found at a house, i was trying it so the result was not as good as i expected. but further on i'll have more "waaaw" pics. this was my starting point, in zambujeira do mar. rita and rosa the beaches in this area are quite hard to reach and were alway desert at the time. they all look the same because i was always in awe everytime i saw a cliff! once we asked a nice man for directions and he gave us this huge flower! having a rest in praia da amália and this was in aljezur castle. the journey didn't end here, but the film did.
we hitchiked a few times and i was really excited with it as i never tried it before. i must dedicate the first attempt to radu! i hope i can show you more pictures soon remember when i, after having visited the house of terror in budapest mentioned we should've have something like that in portugal? well, fortunately that exists from now on. from my experience abroad, i've noticed that few people know we've had a dictatorship in portugal with everything a dictatorship has: a state police, random emprisionments, censorship, prisions, torture.
the former prision from aljube hosts now a very similar exhibition to the one in budapest. the voice of the victims shows facts, places, pictures, stories and history in a way without wanting to shock or appeal solely to the emotions. it shows facts, and some facts were shocking and new to me. we visited it on the 25th of april, the date that marks the end of the dictatorship. i don't know. although i've never lived it i think everyone feels something like pride when we think about this revolution for freedom. and that's it now i have a bus to catch. a year ago i was leaving to slovakia. if you remember, my plane went on without enough oxygen for everyone so we had to make an emergency landing. today i'm leaving for another journey. i hope a bit more calmer and relaxing. with rita and rosa we will be walking down portugal by the coast starting in zambujeira do mar then odeceixe after, arrifana and aljezur and then carrapateira. i really don't know where will i end, so, i will decide there.
see ya! spring has arrived here a bit wet, but yesterday the sky was quite clean so me and luís went for a 10 km walk. i stopped calling the things i usually did "hikings" after i hiked in Dumbier. we were in sintra and made the "route of the capuchos". it was quite steep but that's just me maybe. i really needed to feel my body physically exhausted, i haven't moved much.
well, it was nice. on saturday we went to the museum of our best political cartoonist! you can see some of his great work in drawing and ceramics, we really liked it a lot! and it would be great if some reincarnation of him would come again. we need some witty cartoons! he was the inventor of the "zé povinho" character, supposed to represent the portuguese people: suffering but quiet, happy with a bit of food and wine.
he lived during monarchy and was a hard critic of the system, having been censored a lot. sad to think he died in 1905, just before the instauration of the portuguese republic in 1910! this is a post for my friends in slovakia, since the portuguese ones are all aware of what is happening in the country. to yuliya, jarka and zuzka: i am afraid to tell you that the prime minister you fancied, quit yesterday.
true story: since yesterday portugal has no government, with an enourmous economic crisis and all subsequent ones. it's all quite surreal what is happening and what people are feeling. noone really knows where it'll end, just that it'll end really bad. yesterday all the deputees were to vote for a pack of measures supposed to benefit portugal. being the country on the edge, bursting in debts, the measures were harsh. however, the opposition parties voted for against these measures and josé sócrates, the prime minister, shortly after spoke to the country presenting his resignation. this means new elections - sócrates will be a candidate again - and very probably, the entrance of the international monetary fund in the country. the IMF in here means harder measures than the ones on the disapproved pack. IMF will lift the country up, but solely concentrating on its finances, not on its people. (acknowledging that all the previous measure packs ) let's see what happens. this is really crazy right now. |
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