Sunday Childhood Memory - 2nd Home by the Sea
It is eight in the evening. My parents are in the pousada's dining room finishing dinner. I am in the guest room upstairs. This is one of my favourite spots in the world. It could be my second home. A modern inn, overlooking a dammed lake in the Monchique forest in the Alentejo region of Portugal. Green and mountainous. Clean, fresh air.
My Aiwa portable cassette player is playing Genesis' new album, Genesis. I am lying in bed, the tunes are loud in my head and I am singing along to Mama, Home by the Sea, That's All, etc.
I am told that the chambermaids enjoyed the "concert".
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