Everything looks smaller...

I walk to the gym everyday, its just a 15 minutes walk that I do with pleasure.
I take the same root I would take to go to hight school when I was in attendance centuries ago, Escola Secundaria Antero de Quental. I pass the school and in an additional 3 minutes I am at a gym, at a new hotel close by. Its a small gym but very well lit with natural light. I like it.
Today I noticed that all the streets are smaller, all the houses and doors and buildings in my way to the gym are smaller... the gardens are smaller the benches are smaller... the only thing that remains the same are the smells, a sweet and salty smell of humid atlantic air, terrible if you want to dry your clothes outside, but so nice when you have as background the sound of the waves crashing agains the rocks!
I love these islands, so much of them make what and who I am today. I travelled the world and I still think that the AZORES are the most beautiful place in the world!


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