{"id":1491,"date":"2012-11-20T22:54:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2013-12-23T21:08:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T20:08:43","slug":"3-weeks-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2012\/11\/3-weeks-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"3+ weeks in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"

i’ve been thinking about working remotely for a few weeks from some warm[er] country for quite some time. finally i’ve tried – i’ve spent 3+weeks in Portugal while taking just 2 days of holidays. all went surprisingly well.
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i flew to Faro at the end of October and came back to Sweden from Lisbon in the middle of November. i’ve stayed at 3 places – in Portimao, Lagos and Lisbon [where i’ve met my parents for a few days].<\/p>\n

during my whole stay in Portimao and Lagos it seemed like I was the only visitor and the only user of the internet connection in the hostels \u2013 flat ping, no packet losses. i\u2019ve done plenty of voip calls including conversations with the clients, quite a bit of coding, answering tones of mails as usual and supporting few users remotely. Lisbon at first was a bit more problematic but at the end I\u2019ve unplugged some desktop, connected my laptop over a cable and all went smoothly.<\/p>\n

my toolset \u2013 besides the usual suspects \u2013 putty, remote desktop, openvpn client for windows and skype included zoiper<\/a> \u2013 reasonably working free SIP VoIP client which I used to handle both my internal and external calls.<\/p>\n

1h of the time difference and no lunch break gave me pretty good work schedule. I\u2019ve started at 7am local time and was ready to go out and enjoy the outdoors at 3pm local time. Portimao and Lagos were pretty relaxing \u2013 i had great surroundings to see so every afternoon meant 8-10km walk, during the weekends even 20km. shore near Portimao was rough and full of cliffs; around Lagos \u2013 on the east side I had sandy beach, on the west \u2013 high cliffs.<\/p>\n

\"Portimao<\/a> \"Portimao<\/a><\/p>\n

\""My"<\/a> \"Shore<\/a><\/p>\n

Lisbon was more tiring with usual big-city traffic, but worth seeing too. it’s full of narrow streets going up and down with sneaky short trams rolling around.<\/p>\n

\"Lisbon<\/a> \"Lisbon<\/a> <\/p>\n

we\u2019ve spent one of the days on the suburbs \u2013 in Cascais. they have free bike rental there \u2013 pretty nice idea. we’ve taken 17km journey<\/a> along the rocky coast, some dunes and back to the town.<\/p>\n

the time of the year was pretty good \u2013 there were some showers, maybe 2 evenings were rainy but overall \u2013 very good. i took a swim in the ocean once [I should have done it more], temperature during the day was between 15 and 20C.<\/p>\n

maybe it\u2019s autumn or maybe it\u2019s the current state of the economy – especially there – Portugal looked sad and [economically] depressed. plenty of shops\/restaurants closed down. lavish \u2018branded\u2019 shops in the center of Lisbon could not fix that image. abandoned buildings in all the cities i\u2019ve visited… and revolutionary slogans all around. surely more government intervention and increasing the minimal wages will help them recover :\/<\/p>\n

\"general<\/a> \"abandoned<\/a><\/p>\n

some pictures from the trip – here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i’ve been thinking about working remotely for a few weeks from some warm[er] country for quite some time. finally i’ve tried – i’ve spent 3+weeks in Portugal while taking just 2 days of holidays. all went surprisingly well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}