Some Days In Sagres
Sagres
Every time I go back to Portugal, to see my family and friends, I have a need to escape from the kind of life around there after some days, not to stay at home, out of their routine.
This Summer was a bit more complicated to get company, just weekends, since everyone was working, making dragging them to some other place a bit difficult.Sagres is ideal, not too hot in August, it's the summer meeting place of a large mass of young people that goes there to have fun, has some paradisiac beaches,
Night time, easy. Just start by munching whatever at Dromedario to soak it afterwards with a lot of beer (Sagres, what else?) and digest it by jumping in the bars full of good mood at the same street. To finish big, I went back to the beach to sleep and while looking up to the sky I see a falling star leaving a huge track. It comes to my mind the possibility that I had drank too much (true, judging by the half an hour that took me to walk down the stairs to Beliche beach), but I was lucky enough to camp at a beach in the middle of nowhere (the only visible light came from the cape S. Vincente lighthouse some 2km away) in the night when the meteorite shower of Perseids was more visible. Lucky me, hein? There were dozens of tracks in the sky, wherever I looked at after some seconds I would see one falling. The meteorite shower of the Perseids happens every year when the Earth crosses the orbit of the Swift-Tuttle comet, which leaves a track of cosmic dust on its way, and this dust, when entering Earth's atmosphere at high speed, vaporizes due to friction and leaves a streak of light in the sky, which we romantically call "falling star".
Sounds nice, no? Even better, that this things of going around seeing new and random stuff would happen every day... mmm...
Every time I go back to Portugal, to see my family and friends, I have a need to escape from the kind of life around there after some days, not to stay at home, out of their routine.
This Summer was a bit more complicated to get company, just weekends, since everyone was working, making dragging them to some other place a bit difficult.Sagres is ideal, not too hot in August, it's the summer meeting place of a large mass of young people that goes there to have fun, has some paradisiac beaches,
Night time, easy. Just start by munching whatever at Dromedario to soak it afterwards with a lot of beer (Sagres, what else?) and digest it by jumping in the bars full of good mood at the same street. To finish big, I went back to the beach to sleep and while looking up to the sky I see a falling star leaving a huge track. It comes to my mind the possibility that I had drank too much (true, judging by the half an hour that took me to walk down the stairs to Beliche beach), but I was lucky enough to camp at a beach in the middle of nowhere (the only visible light came from the cape S. Vincente lighthouse some 2km away) in the night when the meteorite shower of Perseids was more visible. Lucky me, hein? There were dozens of tracks in the sky, wherever I looked at after some seconds I would see one falling. The meteorite shower of the Perseids happens every year when the Earth crosses the orbit of the Swift-Tuttle comet, which leaves a track of cosmic dust on its way, and this dust, when entering Earth's atmosphere at high speed, vaporizes due to friction and leaves a streak of light in the sky, which we romantically call "falling star".
Sounds nice, no? Even better, that this things of going around seeing new and random stuff would happen every day... mmm...
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11:09 PM
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