we’ve had an eventful week with the bicycles. first, the electric bike started doing a weird noise when pedaling, so it went into the shop for maintenance, and ended up having the pedals replaced. when it came back, it was doing a different weird tinkling noise… turns out one of the spokes is broken, which is a more serious issue. 😩 we’ll have to deal with that next week. but on the better news, the boy managed to replace the tire of my other bike with a bit of brute force, which yay! i missed riding that bike — it’s amazing how much comfortable it is.
other than that, i reached inbox zero on my work emails, an event that happens maybe once a year. i tried an aqua fitness class and the boy ran a 10k race in town, and did well!
the week was also busy in terms of entertainment! we watched a few episodes of extraordinary attorney woo and also the thursday murder club movie, which i really enjoyed and felt like it did a good job bringing the book to life – i hope they’ll do the rest! we attended david fonseca’s concert in olhão too, always a sing-aloud, high energy affair with a bit of dancing thrown in. :) and we went to see an exhibition in town about some neighborhoods that were built by the population in the post-dictatorship years, but the exhibition was way too abstract and thus a bit disappointing. these newspapers from that time were one of the best parts about it:
we arranged a home swap for azores early next year, which is exciting! we’re always ready to visit the islands for hiking and birdwatching. although winter isn’t ideal, i hope we’ll still have some sunny days in between all the rain, so we can get out there and enjoy nature. maybe we’ll even see some whales!
