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Who knows where the time goes? Since the previous post ended with me returning to the flat after my New Year’s Eve excitement Saturday night, you might reasonably wonder what happened to Sunday. I’ll tell you. Sunday was  a washout. …

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After my long morning and afternoon walks, I spent the rest of the day rather lazily splitting my time between reading one of the books I’d brought and surfing the web – mainly watching YouTube videos – until I decided …

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It’s the morning of New Year’s Eve. Sometime after 22:00, I’ll walk a couple hundred meters down the street to the Terreiro do Paço to ring in 2023 but otherwise I planned an ordinary Saturday probably much like a day …