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Fruit and flowers.

Keith — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:30:38 +0000

As we wander and drive around the area we, or rather Jan, spots various trees, shrubs and flowers. Some are colourful, some simply unusual.

Thought it would be nice to share them with you. There will be more. Camera was playing up, well operator error.

Watch this space, more pictures to come.

Foul weather.

Keith — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:51:57 +0000

Ann instructed me not do any more blogs about how warm it is, this one is about how cold it is.

Sunday night it rained quite hard. Yesterday it was windy.

The temperature dropped to 9° last night, now thats cold.

Do I detect a wave of sympathy heading our way across the ether?

Thought not.

Eurozone debt

Keith — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:05:51 +0000

If Portugal imposed a tax on single use carrier bags they would be in the black inside a month.

Hot or what.

Keith — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:29:52 +0000

We hope you people in the UK who are suffering with the weather will understand this.

Let me start by saying that according to local residents it is hotter than normal for this time of year.

We have started to head inside around lunchtime because it as been so hot. Yesterday it was in the high thirties outside, thirty five in the awning and twenty eight inside in the van. Today about the same.

Hate to think what it must be like in summer.

On our bikes.

Keith — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:06:33 +0000

Yesterday we got our bikes off and went for a ride along the coastal salt marsh of the Algarve, nice and easy on a purpose built cycle way.

Some of you will be aware that our bikes were stolen a few weeks before we left, we had no plans to replace them. One day we were in Halfords looking for something else when we saw a light weight fold up bike. Having discovered that they had a promotion running we decided to buy two. They are great and fit nicely in the back of the car. Plan to get good use from them.

P S. Jan’s is the one with the big saddle.

I’m a secret lemonade drinker,R ……

Keith — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:49:53 +0000

Some of you will remember that refrain from a lemonade add. You can get lemonade here but not the clear stuff that we are used to. Jan wanted some to have with her wine, mission impossible?

Keith, having been dispatched to the supermarket for bread and milk, no note required, he can remember two things, just. Having picked up these items he was making his way to the check out when he spotted, on a shelf, some low cal lemonade, R Whites no less. I am having that he said, two bottles.

At €3-72 for a two litre bottle it is about treble the cost of wine.

Worth it for the brownie points.

Meal deal.

Keith — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:14:01 +0000

Yesterday, Thursday, the ten of us on site went to a local restaurant for lunch.

Main course, sweet, coffee and wine. €8-50 each. Good value or what?

Seasons greetings

Keith — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:09:02 +0000

Jan and Keith would like to wish all our readers a happy Christmas and a good new year.

Wandering

Keith — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:58:20 +0000

The location of the site is at a village named Lagoao, near Moncarapacho, Algarve, Portugal.

Today we walked across country to Moncarapacho, about twenty minutes.

Sat outside a bar, Jan had a brandy, Keith a beer, the cost? €2-50

We walked back along the road to the site.

Very pleasant in the afternoon sunshine.

Tomorrow! shopping at Iceland, Albuferia. Christmas food.

Sunny Sunday.

Keith — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:39:26 +0000

We have stayed on site today, a few chores, but, mostly sat in the sun reading. ( Oh, and drunk some wine) We had to go inside at lunchtime because it was too hot, the high thirties. We came out again when it dropped down to the twenties.

How about you?