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Is there gas in the car?
Yes there's gas in the car!
I think the people down the hall know who you are.

The tavern I'm at in Porto has just played "Waterloo" and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" in quick succession at full volume.

Do they want a sing-along bar? Because that's how you get a sing-along bar!

Brr! It's cold in here!

Major fan of this relaxed and spontaneous Tess Daly energy. #strictly

Ocean waves rushing over a natural pool with some black rocks sticking out

A bald white man with beard and hairy chest, grinning standing outside of an ocean pool.

Piscinas naturais @ Porto Moniz today.

A graphic from a menu with the outline of Italy and, in a serif font, the words "All roads lead to Allora".

I mean, this was just Toto Cutugno's MO.

A white napkin bearing a black print logo of a pizzeria named "allora".

Those of you who also watched the 1991 ESC, delirious in lockdown, will understand why I was drawn to this pizzeria.

I'm not sure that a bossa nova version of Jamiroquai's "Space Cowboy" is something anyone needs, but it is what this hotel has decided we should hear.

Three men sat in chairs outside a white and yellow holiday villa.

Yep.

That looks borderline identical to the place my friends and I stayed in March (also a Jess Glynne holiday). We really liked it there. Enjoy!

Woman at the laundromat, pointing at my one pair of colorful briefs amongst a pile of black trunks: "Are these yours?!"

☠️

lol, labelling service, it's a statue...

A weathered gray granite (I think) sculpture of a woman, maybe a mermaid, holding a shell to her ear like a cell phone. Greenery abounds behind her.

🎶 You used to call me on your shell phone 🎶

A vibrant display of various minerals and geodes is set against a bright, textured royal blue wall on the left, contrasting with a dark green, mossy rock wall on the right. Multiple geodes, cut open to reveal their crystalline interiors, are arranged throughout the display. On the upper left, a long, narrow geode displays light brown crystals within its greenish-blue exterior. Above it and slightly to the right, a large, translucent white crystal, the sign said it's quartz, rests on a metal support. Below the white crystal, a flat, dark purple amethyst cluster with golden-yellow inclusions is visible. In the center, a smaller, circular geode is cut in half, revealing clear and white quartz crystals. Towards the bottom left, a large, irregularly shaped geode is cut open, showcasing rich reddish-brown crystals surrounded by layers of grey and white stone. Other smaller pieces of purple amethyst and rough, textured beige rocks are scattered among the moss and small green fern-like plants on the right side. The natural rock wall features these patches of green foliage, suggesting a cave-like or natural exhibit setting.

Incredible mineral collection at Monte Palace.

If you showed up to "chill" in Vauxhall carrying that quartz on top, I'm sure the hosts would be very excited!

In our quest to recapture the magic of birdsite 🐦, I beg you, post more bird content.

A white and brown peacock head, with feathers on spindles looking like little brushes coming out of its head, looking left of center

A shimmering blue peacock, eye straight on the camera, with blue brushes on gray spindles coming out its head.

Peacocking @ Monte Palace. #peacock #bird #birdcontent #proudasapeacock

It's been mostly downhill since Leonora...

A bald man with short brown beard and generally pudgy appearance, pointing at a sign in Portuguese tile style that says "Welcome to Matias, where you can enjoy local and authentic Portuguese food".

"Welcome to Matias", indeed.

If you saw me looking like Bambi on ice at 2am on Sunday morning in Lisbon, it wasn't (solely) due to the Super Bock.

A design of a crab in black paving stones, surrounded by white paving stones

A design of a big flat fish in black paving stones, surrounded by small white paving stones.

A geometric design of small and large squares rotated 45 degrees of the main axis, with the squares in brown or black stone and the surroundings in white stone.

Calçada portuguesa (Portuguese pavement) is a style of mosaic small stone paving common in Portugal, dating to the 19th century. Common designs include geometric motifs and designs evoking the sea.

It is also slippery AF when wet.

#portugal #paving #mosaic #calcada

At the hospital and a chap just asked someone if Endoscopy was at the main entrance. Was dying to chip in with, "Not necessarily."

Now playing on the bus to the end of the world (Vamus Algarve line 47): "American Idiot" by Green Day, preceded by "Bed Chem" by Sabrina Carpenter.

I walk up to a counter with a bottle of wine named Euphoria.

Me: "Loreen's favourite wine."
Clerk: "O que ? 🤔"

Heard "Dopamine" in the wild for the first time. It's growing on me.

Top half is a city of white buildings along a hill against blue sky. Bottom left is a turquoise sea washing up on a beach. Bottom right is a brown plateau with scrubby green plants.

The cafe just started playing "The Fate of Ophelia", so it's time to start walking again.

We need an American Polanski.

Put that way, it sounds like a sausage restaurant somewhere west of the Kennedy in Chicago...

Kautokeino... Fred Buljo must be cold 😁

Veldig gjort!

Me in public: My headphones:

Sunset over rocks leading into an ocean in various shades of blue, with a yellow fading to light blue sky with a few fluffy dark gray clouds along the horizon.

That's a wrap on #TekknoTrain2025. Reporting from the Algarve, good night and good luck.

Two CP diesel multiple units, painted light blue on the front, in platform at Lagos station.

...they held the connection :)

Train 21, CP Regional Linha do Algarve, Tunes-Lagos

Slow, dusty, and not using the catenary above. Also with doors miles above the platform, making the HST look like level boarding.

We made it! #TekknoTrain2025