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Portugal | Lost in the Woods

May 30, 2022 / Dan Hackett / Leave a comment

On the final day of our lovely Ericeira mini-break, Tanya,  Felix and I had one last coffee together in a cafe, then the pair of them got a cab back to Lisbon while I hopped on a bus to Sintra.

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Portugal | Beach Town

May 29, 2022 / Dan Hackett / Leave a comment

Okay soo I’ve managed to get myself around two weeks behind with my diaries. I shall now endeavour to recap highlights and zoom up to the present day.

On the 14th of May I had my 29th birthday in Lisbon, and it was a corker.

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Portugal | Penguin

May 23, 2022 / Dan Hackett / Leave a comment

Dave and I went out to explore Lisbon, still wrapped up in the strange glow of our incredible coincidence.

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Portugal | “Do You Believe in Fate?”

May 20, 2022 / Dan Hackett / Leave a comment

My first couple of nights in Lisbon were calm. I realised I’d been boozing for too many days on the trot, so I took a few nights off and spent several evenings lounging around and sipping mugs of tea like a wise old owl.

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Portugal | Straw Mouse

May 17, 2022 / Dan Hackett / Leave a comment

After camping, I headed with Seth and Blanche to Seth’s mum’s house. She lives in a tiny village inland – still technically the Algarve, but far far away from any tourists.

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Portugal | EELS?????

May 12, 2022 / Dan Hackett / Leave a comment

Okay so I intended to write every day of my trip, and then I just………… didn’t.

But hey, I have some time now, and I need to catch you up on everything that’s happened because – fuck me – it’s been very strange.

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Portugal | All The Usual Embarrassment

May 5, 2022 / Dan Hackett / Leave a comment

I woke up feeling fragile. In hot countries you dehydrate during the night, and I always wake up feeling like a dried mushroom, half-mad with anxiety.

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Portugal | Beach

May 4, 2022 / Dan Hackett / Leave a comment

After accidentally spunking a fat €50 on a beach towel, I went about my first full day in Portugal.

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Portugal | And Away We Go

May 2, 2022 / Dan Hackett / Leave a comment

First day of it all. Weird.

Weird.

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Waiting for Passport

April 23, 2022February 15, 2023 / Dan Hackett / Leave a comment

After seven and a half weeks, my new passport has arrived. It was meant to take three. This, of course, has been a spanner to all my slap-dashedly laid plans. Or rather, it’s been yet another spanner in the very long sequence of spanners that have continually found their way betwixt the gears of my fragile optimism.

But hey ho!

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