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The End, and back. We spent three months away, I guess we had to come back. We’ve been to Menorca, then Chaves for a while, we went to the Azores, and made our way to Príncipe for a month and a half. It was not our longest stay on the island, far from it, but we’d never been there with tinyMovieStar for so long.

She learned how to swim on the island. That is the memory I’ll take with me. I spent hours with her in the pool, and in the ocean. I love her more every day. I’m so proud to be her dad!

Note: This particular update has our final days on the island, a lot of scattered notes. Sorry about the messy text, but it’s either this way, or the never-published-way. I’ll be back on track, hopefully.

🏝️ Friday!

Quite a long day today. In the morning we had our breakfast and then we moved to Romar for a slice of cake that tinyMovieStar baked the day before. We then went to the airport to get the tickets for the local flight. We got them and, again, they did not have change for us. We went and visited Francisco, the architect at his place and finally got to see his amazing house. Made of wood, but instead of following the traditional building techniques and designs, he designed his own place. So, it’s an incredible house. Really, really, really good one.

Ice-cream. Eggs are back, so are the omelettes, with malagueta and fries.

Saturday we went to Bom Bom, enjoyed the beach, and spent a long time in the pool.

South Africans in town. Awesome people! Terra Prometida, then Francisco’s place again. Omelette for dinner. Best ever. For real.

Sunday, zee Germans have arrived. Last group, then we leave.

Monday was all about underwater photos, and going to “the end of the beach”. tinyMovieStar wanted to take me there. We went. Photos turned out great.

Also, dancing in the street. There’s a grocery shop that has a very powerful set of speakers, and they set them just outside when business is mostly done for the day. People gather and dance a bit. We did as well. Fun.

Tuesday. It was a very (VERY!) rainy day, so we went hiking with the Germans. I wasn’t supposed to, but Joel said he’d go if I did, and vice-versa. We were silly. We got soaking wet. Never had I been so wet in my long life.

Wednesday, final day.

Rain, still. Dinner with family.

Thursday, we’re out! movieStar on the first flight to the big island, and the two of us a bit later.

I will miss Joel. A lot.

Leaving 45 minutes before time. Luckily we were early to the airport.

We got to the big island, movieStar waiting for us at the airport with the driver. We moved to the hotel, had lunch, a swim, and the little one complained about a headache. She had a fever! We were a bit scared, so off we went, a visit to clinic was needed.

Amazing Cuban doctor.

Friday surf search.

Car Rental is simple here. No contract, no driver’s license check, nothing. Just pay up, and get a key.

Flight home. Upgraded (thank you, Gu!). This time in a VERY comfortable A321LRneo. It was brilliant. Two movies, see below.

We played so much UNO!

🏙️ Back in the city. School. Dinner with friends who visited on the island. Then lunch with others. Back to mom&dad, back to in-laws.

Missing watch showed up. I did not take it in the first place. I should trust myself more.

Rain. And cold.

Weeks getting accustomed to life in the city. Still not feeling it.

🧰 Car in shop. Needed work, still not perfect. It’s getting old.

📝 No reply yet from job application, too many people applied.

💾 Found an old HD with a ton of photos, from the newspaper days, and personal stuff. Enjoying the trip back in time. Will probably post more in the coming days/weeks.

📺 Bad Monkey (the end), and Slow Horses (the end, and back to the start, we’re rewatching the whole thing). English Teacher, and Rogue Heroes added to list. Finished them all.

🍿 Perfect Days. Probably my favorite film this year. Maybe even my favorite for much longer. I then tried to follow up with Asteroid City, but was too tired, and getting bored to death after 10 minutes. Gave up. Not sure I’ll even go back, and give it another try.

🐼 Panda Pixels moved. This sort of project/site, meant as a pop up that stuck around for a little longer, can, in my mind, move around. It’s supposed to be shared on social media, I don’t think anyone will go back in time, on the site.

With that in mind, I moved this one to Scribbles. I changed the background color, and off it went.

💀 Omnivore died. Botsin.space is dying. My PhotoQuotes bot moved. I should have done it a while back, as Adam always has our backs!

📈 Got a new watch, a new-in-box Garmin Instinct 2 Solar. Mostly for the brilliant screen, but enjoying the stats as well. It still fails to measure my heartbeats properly, but it seems to work better than the Apple Watch.