One does not need much to live free and live well.. for most who do not know what that means yet, they believe it’s a step backwards because they don’t want to make the sacrifices required for that kind of standard of living.
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the most frequently puzzled expressions from locals here in Madeira we get, as ascetic bitcoiner dev refugees is why we like to walk around the place with these incredibly steep, narrow roads everywhere.
that's what pura vida means.
i thought i knew how to walk a long way and now, 4 hours and 6 kilometres is more taxing than a 50km day along the mostly empty train tracks in Serbia.
we have on our agenda to eventually be able to walk all the way from the beach up to the observatory on one of the lower peaks on the northern face of the island, and watch the dark sky, and camp in hammocks with rain falling on the bashas covering us. well, i want to do the sleeping in the hammock thing anyhow, after spending a few hours enjoying the quiet and darkness and the milky way up above.