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Living off the land 100%

Wept! I just walked no more than 200 Meters and found a completely different Portimoa. Droves of people. Thousands of the fuckers. Decided to sit down and have a beer :)

I still fancy a yacht for the night. May have to wait until after 1AM, and get the fuck out by 8AM, but safe as fuck ;)

Google earth did not give a clue about how many people here compared to the central praca.
 
I'm sitting under the palm tree at 5 O'clock in the Google screen grab above.

I may not need to sleep. Very lively here. Might even get free bed and shower. Although, second looks, it is all families. They'll all be off to bed in an hour, or so.

I quite like the barmaid. This is possibly the biggest fault of all alcoholics.
 
Actually, no. I am pretty much bang on centre in the screen grab above. I should fucking well have been sketching here. I would have made a fortune.
 
Portimao to Faro is essentially the N125 . A single track busy road , with one if the highest accident rates in Europe , with an absence of villages apart from Alcantrilla, the horrendous Guia , Bolliquime etc . Unless of course you get a lift on the motorway east of Porches.
Faro is quite pleasant although the the only beach is outside of the town underneath the flight path . Olhao next a busy little town with lots of Russians. From there it's sandbanks , little islands of them, the Octopus capital of Portugal and then Tavira a beautiful town with a Roman bridge, a ferry takes you to a large sandbank island with a lovely beach. The downside is mosquitos there's thousands of the fuckers.
 
I have never tried to deny my alcohol addiction. I am one of those annoying 'functioning alcoholics' who manage very well despite it. I enjoy it. It takes the nasty edge off life and enables me to gain much more pleasure and freedom from everything.

You want a house? Fair enough - you pay for your house, but you never try and judge anyone else for choosing not to be a fucking slave to the system just because they weren't born into money. I do not know anyone in this World who has managed to get on the property ladder without a little help from parents, or family. Nobody, and I know many high earning people.
I Did it without help from family. Bought a small flat on 100% mortgage some years ago and was working for a university at the time so not earning heaps by any means. But it was hard, even though I was fortunate enough to be able to do it. Plus it wasn't in London.
 
I had to forage my own lunch today.

Building manager decides that the kit hen floor needs to be changed, but doesn't tell the staff, so my actual lunch and the drinks I'd brought in for the afternoon are stuck in the fridge in a now closed kitchen.

So I managed to find some Korean noodles and had change to get a drink from the vending machine, and managed to get a large bottle of water from the other kitchen where all supplies are kept.

But it wasn't as nice as my usual lunch :(
 
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This guy tried something similiar, but they wouldn't have it.

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Next time, I'll spend the money on drugs instead.

Worth a read, funny as fuck.
That's my morning gone then. I've got load of stuff to do too. Thanks...
 
I Did it without help from family. Bought a small flat on 100% mortgage some years ago and was working for a university at the time so not earning heaps by any means. But it was hard, even though I was fortunate enough to be able to do it. Plus it wasn't in London.
I bought a two bed flat in london zone 5, in my first year as a teacher (1996). 100% mortgage. No financial help from parents etc.

Unfortunately i sold it to go to drama school a few years later, and it took me more than ten years and a lot of financial help to buy again. But back in the nineties it was very doable.
 
I have never tried to deny my alcohol addiction. I am one of those annoying 'functioning alcoholics' who manage very well despite it. I enjoy it. It takes the nasty edge off life and enables me to gain much more pleasure and freedom from everything.

You want a house? Fair enough - you pay for your house, but you never try and judge anyone else for choosing not to be a fucking slave to the system just because they weren't born into money. I do not know anyone in this World who has managed to get on the property ladder without a little help from parents, or family. Nobody, and I know many high earning people.
If you're an addict by definition you're a slave. And while you might not have a bricks and mortar home or regular job don't make out you're outside the system, you depend more than anyone else here on the system, on other people in the system.
 
Not to mention unfortunate

I don't mean to piss on Stan's parade, but this really is the case. Had booked a week there a few years back, but thankfully my friend talked me into spending most of the time in Lisbon instead. Not sure what I would have done in Faro for a week. Not even that many bars IIRC. Think it's just known because that's where the airport is.
 
I don't mean to piss on Stan's parade, but this really is the case. Had booked a week there a few years back, but thankfully my friend talked me into spending most of the time in Lisbon instead. Not sure what I would have done in Faro for a week. Not even that many bars IIRC. Think it's just known because that's where the airport is.
Stanley swooped down like a lame wolf on the fold...
 
I Did it without help from family. Bought a small flat on 100% mortgage some years ago and was working for a university at the time so not earning heaps by any means. But it was hard, even though I was fortunate enough to be able to do it. Plus it wasn't in London.
Same here. I was working as a secretary at an insurance company and earning a pittance, but it was just about doable back then.
 
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