we were back in tavira and then immediately hosted my brother and his gang, including little niece. she’s almost 2, knows lots of words and her favorite is a very clearly enunciated “não” (no). she likes ice-cream (frozen banana whizzed with yoghurt), pizza and blueberries, making soap bubbles, listening to stories and going to the slides in the park. she does not like to walk by her own 2 feet and demands to be carried everywhere, like a tiny tyrant princess.

other than that, i just feel stretched very thin and in need of some quiet weeks working at home to recover. i never seem to learn the lesson that i need buffers of time between stuff — it’s always too tempting to cram things, to batch trips together and make traveling more efficient… but the result is that everything seems to overwhelm me and fall apart. *sigh*.