world postcard day week! the day passed without much of a hitch, just a lot of adrenaline, lots of chocolate cookies and many things to check on. i filmed my first reel on instagram, just a little video of of my bike ride to post postcards on all the old postboxes in town. it was quite a warm day, so not my brightest idea, but i survived!

and after all the excitement of the big day, we took off to sagres, for four days at the yearly birdwatching festival — something we look forward to all year. this year, we tried to enjoy other activities and workshops on topics we weren’t so familiar with. so we tried sea kayaking, field sketching, painting with pastels, identifying insects and moths, ringing birds and making maritime knots.

these were very full days, but also, a very much needed break, with amazing food, in a town that has become one of our favorite places in the country. on the last day, we had a walk with simon (a guide we met last year already) and saw lots of nice birds — including some wheatears, skylarks, red-billed choughs and some rareish eurasian dotterels, passing through on their way from siberia to africa. it was a beautiful way to wrap up the festival, and to decompress from a few (very long) months of work.