🌚 It was pretty pretty dark.
💡 Power finally came back, when we had already given up for the day. It was dark out already, and we were thinking about heading home.
The final day of the festivities did happen after all, and we had a couple more beers.
Over 12 hours. We still had fun.
@hoppysensei Light came back at 7:30PM. Thankfully this is the Land of Diesel Generators 😹
🕯️ Power outage all day. Still having fun.
🕯️ 5:30PM, the sun is setting. I just got a pack of candles, and match boxes, from the shop.
We’re still waiting for the power to be back. Over 12 hours. Now I know how you guys feel, back in the US!
🪫 Closer to 3PM now, and guess what? Still no power.
🥦 The Bar
@aa Turns out part of the city already has power. On our end, however, it does not. It’s getting close to noon.
📚 That’s what you get from waking up with the rooster yapping outside. Not even 9AM, and have done some serious reading already. Nice.
☕️ Up for a couple of hours already, could use a cup of coffee. There’s no point in going out for one, though, as the coffee machine won’t be running at the cafe.
No power = no coffee = no power.
@TheMacPsych I had to use the powerbank already, just to keep it going until power is finally back (still out). When it does I’ll have to charge both devices. Can’t be running around all day with one (or two) powerbank in the bag.
I’m using the camera all day long, and feel these cell towers drain the battery a lot faster, if that’s even a thing.
Nothing more frightening, to someone who’d lived by his wits, than to be slowly losing them.
Spook Street - Mick Herron
🪫 07:15AM, power still not back, battery down to 8%.
🛵 Misty Morning Motorcycling
📸 The Photo Studio
@DaveyCraney We’re pretty used to the craziness of the country by now. Just going with the flow is the rule. They have a saying here: leve-leve. It basically means we should take it very easy.
The cocktails were a very welcome surprise!
🐟 Had the best fish ever today, at lunch time. Happy.
🎉 There is a party atmosphere in the city. Stalls are coming down tomorrow. Sadly.
👀 National Holiday; odd day.
✉️ The Post Office
❤️ Walked out, and had a quick coffee. No time for photos.
@Munish Thank you! We’re always having adventures over here. This place is full of surprises and, luckily, good ones most of the time.
@mbkriegh It is very fun, no question about that. Being on an island of 7000 people, in a poor county, will always be challenging. But we’re very VERY privileged, as we have access to mostly everything. We can easily do without what we can’t find.
@TheMacPsych I can’t recall the last time I was so excited about a new season of a tv show.
@TheMacPsych Love it.
@DaveyCraney I’m pretty sure it won’t replace the traditional feed reader for me (even though I’ve moved on from Reeder, now Classic), but I’m still trying to figure out how I’ll use this one, as I really want to give it a go. It feels pretty great as a Micro.blog client!
@matthewlang Not complaining 🙂
🌧️ It’s official: early September is now officially rain season over here. Nights are usually spent with the soundtrack of water failing on leaves.
@aa Yes. Every day, from midnight to 6AM. It used to be until 7AM, but it just came back at 6AM.
That usually acts as alarm clock for me, the fridge and air con starting up is enough to wake me up.
⏱️ Approximately one hour until the power goes out. All devices that need charging are plugged in!
🐴 Yeah, I’m not waiting for next week’s episode of #slowHorses!
🧈 Had to visit all the mini-markets in the city (all three of them) to find butter.
Yes, we’re back in Santo António!
☎️ Got my local number. Yay!
👀 One of my favorite traditions on the island: go to the tiny airport when the plane is coming/going. Kinda like reading the newspaper: you get to know the what/when/how of everything.
@MereCivilian Lovely. Feedbin lover over here too.
🌊 Artsy-Fartsy
@SimonWoods Thanks! I wasn’t even aware they had their own instance, and the wiki idea is great.
@crossingthethreshold You will master one of them soon enough.