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I woke early this morning, as I mentioned on identi.ca, and as I had nothing much planned for the day, I got to thinking of things to do.

I started thinking about relatively normal things; go to a beach, maybe go for an explore locally, and so on. And then I got a bit more ambitious – and decided to go to Spain.

That’s not as crazy an idea as it may sound as where I live in the Algarve, I am only about 45 minutes drive along the A22 freeway from the Spanish border.

So after a couple of cups of coffee I went, and around an hour later there I was driving across the border.

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Great. So what is the point of this post?

There are several points; the first is no matter how long I live here in Portugal (I have been based here for nearly eighteen years), I still can’t really get used to the idea that waking up in the morning and deciding on a whim to go to Spain, or to go to a great beach, or to go to a café and hang out with people who are there to just relax and enjoy themselves, is not only perfectly realistic but is also perfectly normal.

The second thing is to remind myself in the future that today was the day that I just woke up and went to Spain for no reason whatsoever.

The third is to mention to you out there that I have decided to explore Spain a little more often and so have added a new Spain cameraphone gallery.

And lastly, to wonder to myself out loud; why doesn’t everyone live here in Portugal? You really can’t beat this place.

The weather here right now at 11pm, and the forecast for the week ahead.

Ok so it may not be cold compared to where you are, but it sure is cold outside right now considering where I am.

Time to buy some firewood, methinks.

A bunch of misbehaving kids in Australia are apparently going to be forced to listen to Barry Manilow songs in an attempt to get them to leave an area.

A novel idea, if without a doubt a cruel and unusual punishment.

It’ll work, though, as if someone played Manilow sounds at me I’d run away too.

The “spotted-on-Flickr” pic of the day has to be, for me, this one.

It has no proper description on it, but it is in both the Portugal and the Lisboa pools, so we do at least know where it was taken.

It well captures the way of the place, don’t you think?

Update: Since posting this I have heard from the photog and he doesn’t remember now if he took that pic in Lisboa, or if it was maybe in Porto. Not that it matters really (except to this post’s title. Erm…)