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My boyfriend and I are in sleeping bags on the tiled floor of a disused swimming pool, counting shooting stars and drinking Vinho do Alentejo from a plastic water bottle, which we filled up in a bar for two euros. The pool is in the overgrown garden of one of many picturesque ruins that litter the landscape around the Rota Vicentina, a long-distance hiking trail connecting Santiago do Cacem, t

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	Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed 4.22 avg rating — 1,872 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun 4.28 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 2014 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once Upon a Raven's Nest: A Life on Exmoor in an epoch of change 4.55 avg rating — 66 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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World of Ideas

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The Best of Granta travel

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“There was something increasingly radical in doing nothing, it seemed to me, within a society that had a fetish for being busy.”
― Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

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“The peace of knowing that the true art of living is not to gather things and polish them and lay them out for others to admire, but to have next to nothing, get plenty out of it, and give the rest away.”
― Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

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“fearlessness has got nothing to do with being unafraid. It's about doing things anyway, getting on with it, living, whether you're afraid or not....Courage is about being who you are with your whole heart”
― Catrina Davies, The Ribbons are for Fearlessness: A Journey

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“For life is a journey through a wilderness”
― Bruce Chatwin

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“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”
― Charlie Parker

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“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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“I think love is like a good cheese...you enjoy it when it's ripe and then forget about it”
― Catrina Davies, The Ribbons are for Fearlessness: A Journey

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