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I live with Igor and Iomi in the western part of the Algarve. A rough beautiful place with an abundance of nature and a spacious population where you feel like you are nowhere in particular.
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The wild nature provides besides vast spaces full of green, an untamed beach culture that still seems to escape the greedy thought of profit and displays the audiovisual backdrop of an ocean so vast it separates continents. It is a good place to escape to, and a great place to call home. A lot of us folks that are lost come here to find, some of us manage to stay beyond the honeymoon of summer and many return back to where they came from or find new Shangri-la's. The expat community is made up by people who appreciate the climate, surfers that follow their love of the waves. Hippies that enjoy the possibility to openly hide and then us, The 'for other reasons'. I like to lovingly call this place 'The asshole of Europe', where people that have tried the more exotic versions and deemed them to complicated end up, since the next step towards further takes you straight to the welcoming arms of US immigration. The circle of expats I know here are an unruly bunch, weary of the world and society at large but with a youthful spark coupled with the kind of broken down maturity that many of us outsiders enjoy. A very colorful eclectic community. Circumstances here are not the optimal, Portugal has been hit hard by crisis and poorly managed governing. People still carry the bitter taste of a recent dictatorship and it seems to have robbed them of some of their confidence. Economy is harsh, bureaucracy complicated to say the least and the more commercial aspect of distractions are sparse. Practical life here is very often a struggle. So why do I stay, why is it still my beloved home? Well after circling this globe in search for adventure, freedom and Love I know that wherever I go there I Am, and this little corner of the world provides me with sanctuary, enough struggle so that I truly value what is. A beautiful spacious environment that allows me to breathe a little deeper and to every day see the ocean and look beyond the horizon. It's after all a very good place to Be.
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- Reflections on identity
- Meditating with death and loss
- Meditating with insecurity
- Meditating with expectations and disappointment
- Meditating with pain
Archive 2017
Archive 2016
Archive 2015
- Thank you
- Family
- Extremes
- Thoughts from the ER
- Growing pains
- The effort of no effort
- Corrections
- The international day of
- Anything is possible
- It's good to get away
- When I grow up...
- The cat's cradle
- Yoga is amazing
- Muy Fragil
- Sex-To do it or not to do it
- dhammalogue no.17
- The Desert Walker
- Cleanliness is next to godliness...?
- Dhammalogue no.17
- A treat
- Welcome Home Igor
- The Equalizer
- Saturday morning
- Co-dependency
- What I see from here
- Dhammalogue no. 16
- A Teenage Dream
- happy birthday my Love
- We're not afraid of no ghosts
- Resilience
- A new adventure
- The importance of circumstance
- To see the sun
- Dreaming with headphones
- Old friends
- What if
- A beautiful read
- Dhammalogue no.15
- The Bird
- Yoga binds
- Thank you for the music
- Derren Brown
- Sexual healing
- Dhammalogue no.14
- The solitude in nature
- Driving our new car
- A Turbo Teaching
- What are we searching for in yoga?
- Milk your own cow
- Dhammalogue no.13
- Something to think about
- A grumpy old man
- Imagine
- Savasana II- The art of healing
- Injured
- Dhammalogue no. 12
- Friday night fun
- A moment of Cohen
- A really good practice
- home sweet home
- Variety
- Nervosity
- Dominique
- A stroll through town
- To Amsterdam
- A little pause
- Brussels
- Bright lights big city
- It's all in the details...
- Vanlife extended
- Vanlife
- Dhammalogue no.12
- The Joy of Friday
- Assurance
- Out of order
- Food for thought
- The Oscars
- Dhammalogue no.11
- In short
- travelling
- Simply satisfying
- Enter at your own risk
- today
- Dhammalogue no.10
- A labour of love
- I am willing to change
- A good read
- Teaching
- Vänliga vanliga veckan
- Dhammalogue no. 9
- Savasana-the art of living and dying
- Evening practice
- Retreating
- Sex-the female orgasm part 2
- Sex-the female orgasm
- Dhammalogue no.8
- The magic of the written word
- My first Vipassana-part 3
- My first Vipassana-part 2
- My first Vipassana
- Yin-The stillness where compassion is born part 2
- Dhammalogue no.7
- Yin-The stillness where compassion is born
- How does a penis in a train relate to Freedom of choice?
- A story of surf, a little bit of magic and never giving up
- Åk alla till Akalla
- Sex part 3
- Dhammalogue no.6
- Detachment
- Today
- The advantage of marriage
- Meditating on pain
- For the love of fear
- Dhammalogue no.5
- My life as a dancer - The End
- My life as a dancer part 4
- My life as a dancer part 3
- My life as a dancer part 2
- My life as a dancer part 1
- Dhammalogue no. 4
- Sex part 2
- 1st Jan or, The subtle skill of discipline and responsibility
Archive 2014
- My year part 2
- My year
- Health
- Dhammalogue no. 3
- Let me entertain you
- 5 things I like about Jesus
- Merry Christmas
- Christmas
- The 40's
- Dhammalogue no. 2
- Sex
- My parents part 2
- My parents
- Sense of humour
- The joy of ordinary
- DHAMMALOGUE no 1
- Sweden
- Motherhood
- My marriage part 3
- my marriage part 2
- My Marriage
- My practice
- Home
- Prologue