Atonement in Portugal

September / October 2016

A month after the diagnose and wild excessive partying i packed my backpack and left for a lonesome hiking trip for six weeks through the backlands of the Algarve on the Via Algarviana starting on the spanish portuguese border and leading towards the Atlantic. Most of my stuff in Berlin had been sold or given away and my flat was rented out. Minimalism at its best.

I had realized that a medical treatment with the common drugs such as Levodopa would not be an option due to the side effects.  Keeping sporty and get my body detoxified felt much better. So i walked , sweated out berlin's night life in the bloody heat, swallowed every morning natural remedies to detox and thought about how i can turn my life even more hedonistic and focusing on what is the most important.

By the time i reached the Atlantic Ocean on the very south part i was really happy about my mental state and followed the coast line hiking up north on the Rota Vicentina. Then the surfing caught me and a new chapter had begun.