Day No. 99 - Way up high - From Loulé to Olhão - GLÜCKsMUSKEL.DE - Reiseblog 315Grad

"Somewhere over the rainbow

Way up high

And the dreams that you dream of

Once in a lullaby..."

"...Somewhere over the rainbow

Bluebirds fly

And the dreams that you dream of

Dreams really do come true

Full moon, as I step out in the middle of the night, I remember Torgit's words. - The pine forest where we parked Hector looks like something out of a fantasy novel. Everywhere between the trees, the ground reflects the moonlight, fluorescence. - I take a few steps onto the cliff and look out over the beach and the sea. Here, too, the moon is reflected radiantly. Everything seems wonderfully peaceful. Even the waves seem to hit the beach more gently today.

What was that about the lunar calendar? - Now I remember, yesterday was supposedly the day when the body stores calories the easiest. - So it's a good thing that I took both a bar of chocolate and a bag of chips with me to the hammock yesterday. - Supposedly, you can purge ideally from today. So it's the perfect time to fast. - I'm not sure I want to believe in that. Whereas I have lost weight last year, exactly in this time really well. I had to create reserve for the Christmas goose.

But this will probably not be available this year. Maybe we'll find a Chinese and switch to Peking Duck?

This morning it is decidedly cold, it is only 9°. - Nevertheless, I decide to jump briefly into the Atlantic. I am princely rewarded. Suddenly it begins to drizzle lightly and over the beach a wonderful rainbow develops. Arriving back on the cliff, I can watch how it makes a perfect ½-circle. When do you ever see a rainbow, from start to finish. Spontaneously, the song "Somewhere over the Rainbow" comes to mind. But certainly not the version that comes to mind for most on this. I don't think of Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, or "The Wizard of Oz," both of which are also very cool. But I still associate the song with Marusha, with her green eyebrows. - I'll never forget her performance at the Love Parade in 1998 - where I was hanging out in my thirties.

But the memory fades as quickly as the rainbow. It's not until the evening that it comes back to me, and I listen to the song again.

But in the morning I first rinse the salt from my skin and then quickly into the van. Heat up, the coffee tastes twice as good today.

Someday, I wish upon a star

Wake up where the clouds are far behind me

Where trouble melts like lemon drops

High above the chimney top

That's where you'll find me

We decide to say goodbye to the beach today. - We have enjoyed the last days here very much. Somehow we have the feeling that this is not the last time we will see this beach. But we want to power our starter battery a little bit. Today we are supposed to go to Olhão. - The place is known for its street art. We don't want to miss that. But we also have to go to a bigger place for purely practical reasons. Because we urgently need to do big laundry again. - We decide to take the way through Faro. Olhão is then about 10 km further east. Already at the first passage we discover, directly on the national road N125 the small villa with church tower, which is covered over and over with the most different wall pictures. - Actually we wanted to look here only tomorrow. But we stop spontaneously and let the pictures work on us.

We find the building very cool. In the immediate vicinity we find more graffiti. - We are already very curious what we will see tomorrow. - Also on the way to the local campsite "Parque de Campismo e Caravanismo de Olhão" we see more wall tattoos. - But now we are looking forward to a warm shower and to let the parking heater run through. Because warmth is a greater luxury than we were aware of before. - The parking heater, we have only repaired the day before our departure. Without it, this tour would be possible, but not desirable. - Etienne made us even more aware of this. He has removed the parking heater in his Land Rover Discovery. He tells cool. "Because of weight and only takes away space. Well, it didn't run decently anyway and now I have two of them" - meaning his two dogs. - Also a method to deal with the cold. But for Torgit these do not belong in the bed. So hopefully the heating holds.

Somewhere over the rainbow

Bluebirds fly

And the dreams that you dare to

Oh why, oh why can't I? Well, I see trees of green and red roses too

I'll watch them bloom for me and you

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world