Autumn comes careering towards us like a bullet, bringing breeze and rain, a late night chill and shivering trees as they prepare to lose their leaves, exposing their naked branches - and that’s Portugal, it’s likely more advanced further north. There will be more sun to come but tonight water fell from the sky in tantalising drops, teasing the trees and the plants, waking them up from months of thirst. But here unlike the north, the rain isn’t cold, it’s just wet.
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