Mar 31, 2024: Nature walk into Paradise: Fonte Benémola at the Algarve in Portugal 🇵🇹

[@mariliaamaral4921]

Ola Ralph I hope you have a nice Easter. Thanks for this beautiful walk, the water falls was amazing. The farmers they are pleased with all this rain.See you soon.

[@ralphalgarve]

🙏👍😍

[@gregepps4710]

We walked that trail in January. Stunning part of the Algarve

[@ralphalgarve]

Next time you drop in for a coffee…👍

[@nanoresmith2697]

Happy Easter ✨️ Spring has sprung 🐝 Absolutely incredible ... and you are blessed to live there! 🪻🪻🪻

[@ralphalgarve]

🙏🥰🌼

[@lizf9686]

Thank you Ralph for taking us along on your wonderful walk! 🌸🪻🌿 what a pleasure to see much needed water thundering along that river bed 🩵 can’t wait to join your other channel! Off to sign up! 😎

[@ralphalgarve]

🙏 thanks Liz, I think I send you an email. You are on the list for the private channel 👍

[@lizf9686]

@@ralphalgarve yes thanks got it!

[@dieterberg3113]

Dear Ralph, What an impressive walk through the Algarve nature. As I am no longer fit enough to make such walks myself I enjoyed to join you even more. Dieter

[@ralphalgarve]

👍🙏 it’s a pleasure my friend!

[@Algarve-living]

Happy Easter weekend. Amazing walk and nature.

[@ralphalgarve]

🙏☺️🌼

[@havechopstickswilltravel2990]

Will mark that date on our calendar. We don’t have plans yet, but if/when we do, we will let you know if we are in your area. Thanks for the update Ralph. 😂 Naked man orchid. Your location is so wild and wonderful. So glad that your Casa was not affected by all that rain.

[@ralphalgarve]

Hey Tina, thanks 🙏 would be great to welcome you here on site for the concert ! 😍

[@kukka7669]

What a feast for the senses 😊🎉, such beauty in nature!! So wonderful with all the wild green & lush trees and bushes, colourful blooms as well as the moss and new shoots on the oak trees… I particularly enjoyed seeing the amounts of the moving water (with muted colours of greens and the light glistening) in the river. Was so nice to see, especially when it seems Portugal is suffering from drought some parts of the year and some people say Portugal will have some big issues with drought in the future. It’s surprising that more isn’t done to preserve the water for the warmer months in a form of a reservoir or other, although some of this water must go into the groundwater…i guess most of it will end up in the sea… just quite baffling when we are told the sea levels are rising through climate change, but perhaps i don’t know the whole issue…thank you Ralphie for another beautiful inspiring walk with Algarve life & nature ☺️🌈🙏🏻

[@ralphalgarve]

Dear Kukka ☺️ yes, I totally agree, there is no lack of water, there is a lack of holding back constructions to keep up the water for later use. 👍

[@belindafoster4544]

Thank you Ralph for taking us on your walk.

[@ralphalgarve]

You are very much welcome ☺️

[@debrashard1466]

Hello Ralph I've been watching your renovation of your beautiful house . Your a very talented designer. You have great workmen

[@ralphalgarve]

Thanks Debra, thats very kind. I have a passion for beauty and design....:-)

[@debrashard1466]

@ralphalgarve you can tell of your passion and it's paying off with your talent . The surroundings are so beautiful . I've never visited the Algarve.

[@ralphalgarve]

@@debrashard1466be careful, if you come to the Algarve for the first time, you will get infected by the beauty and stay forever because you have been falling in love. That’s what happened to me…❤

[@debrashard1466]

@ralphalgarve that sounds amazing to me . I've just got back from visiting my Auntie in Australia didn't want to come home . I was there for 3 weeks . Can't believe I went all that way on my own which I've never done in my life and I'm 61 Lol I loved it . My children are grown up and married and they were so proud of me . So now I can go anywhere on my own xx

[@debrashard1466]

Hi Ralph your succulent garden is looking wonderful. And the wine tunnel looks amazing the view is spectacular. Those stones look so heavy . Be carful you don't strain yourself . I love your Tiger he's so cute . I have 3 cats myself they are so comical X

[@robrichards6219]

Happy Easter Ralph. Thanks for taking us on the walk.

[@ralphalgarve]

Thanks Rob 🙏 it’s a pleasure ☺️

[@mikecorcoran6834]

It is so very beautiful. That walk daily will keep you strong and thin.

[@ralphalgarve]

👍 one of the Blue Zones principles…☺️😄

[@carolyn9499]

Thank you Ralph for the nature walk and identification of the flora. You are spreading lots of love and peace. Good job! ☮💌

[@ralphalgarve]

🙏😍

[@dawnfitzgerald2951]

What a wonderful Easter walk Ralph. Thank you for sharing it. Your Casa looks like heaven on earth. ❤️🇨🇦

[@ralphalgarve]

🙏😍 it is…..

[@MARIAMIMOSO]

Bom dia Ralph, I am in Lagos and would love to meet you and talk about your plans regarding workshops at your place. Grateful for all the beauty you share. Maria

[@ralphalgarve]

Hey Maria, thanks for your kind message! 🙏 funnily I’m in Lagos tomorrow morning. Maybe we could meet spontaneously. Please send me an email: [e-mail]. Ralph

[@MARIAMIMOSO]

Thx. I have sent an email.

[@johnallen9892]

Bom dia Ralph, what a beautiful front yard you have. It just goes on and on with something new around every corner. You were so wise to choose a place to restore in such a magnificent setting. One compliments the other. You are indeed blessed to be where you are and doing what you want. Happy trails my friend, John.

[@ralphalgarve]

🙏👍John, when I came here for the first time seeing the breathtaking nature in front of me I immediately fell in love 🥰 not with the casa at that time, just with Nature.

[@kmm6463]

Beautiful, it reminded me of the camino de Santiago. Thank you Ralph 😊

[@ralphalgarve]

🙏 ☺️

[@volkerrixen5841]

Nature is back 👍Sehr schöner Bericht 🙏Unglaublich wieviel Wasser an der Fonte Benémola fließt 😅Wo ist denn unsere Brücke geblieben? Glg Volker

[@ralphalgarve]

Danke mein Lieber 🙏 die Brücke eist mittlerweile wieder aufgetaucht…👍

[@mitfreundlichengrussen1234]

Happy Easter Ralph! What a little paradise - has the recent rain also filled your cisterna a bit? Maybe you can quantify how many liters you have caught... Thanks for the walk and explanations, best thoughts and wishes from Bavaria.

[@ralphalgarve]

That’s me Karl 🙏 good question, the cisterna is now a bit more than half full…, almost 60.000 Liter saved, 40.000 still to go thus my calculation for water saving were 👍

[@mitfreundlichengrussen1234]

very good - are you planning to use that water also for the pool?@@ralphalgarve

[@ralphalgarve]

No, only if I really need to. Actually I could use my underground cisterna for adventure swimming….😂