What a unique birthday

Today is my birthday. And It is not raining yet. (Will come this afternoon though).
I started the day by giving myself a present, three Jelly snakes in memory of good old times with my daughters when they would bring me such snakes from the kiosk. This used to be heaven on earth for me 😃
As I marched on weather got worse and worse with thunder all around. And then it broke! In buckets. Within seconds I was soaked and the rest of the day was rain.
When I got to Grandola I met a young man in an alley who looked as if he could speak English. It was Markus Müller a well traveled international who two years ago decided that Germany is going to Hit the wall, sold everything to build a house in Portugal
Markus invited me in for a beer and then, unknowingly, turned my birthday into a most memorable event by cooking a wonderful dinner. And for the first time in this trip I was able to have a real conversations with someone accompanied by wonderful wine, then Sake, and then to literally finish us off, half a bottle of Medronio, a killer Schnaps from Portugal.
God bless you Markus. ❤Read more