Ola,
On Friday we reached Quarteria, we are now at the point of having to start thinking of heading home, 1,500 miles away.(Well not just yet). Quarteria is like everywhere else its now closing down for the winter, its all ghost town, shops and restaurants are now closed, the holiday homes have all the shutters down. We have now come to realize how short a window these people have to make money, its a long time untill June when it starts to drip with tourists before the July rush. Our Campsite is nearly empty the beaches are the same even though its lovely and warm by day, we even had the pool to ourselves all day on one occasion, there is an evening nip (not Japanese) now when the sun goes down, and it dosen't rise till about 8.15am
On Saturday Dale lectured the supermarket owner on opening on time, (he's fluent in Portuguese now), to be told it had, and he (Dale) was on central european time (Spannish GMT+1hr), and the shop had opened in Portugesse time (GMT), Red faced he left. Sunday was a highlight for Oonagh, Sunday roast with 4 veg and lashings of gravey.
We went to Faro, as we are going to go'o on Monday, we felt a little disappointed that it was a bit shabby, after hearing so much that it was the pearl of the Algarve. 5 pm on the 14th September for the first time since 22nd of June, we saw rain, we had a thunderstorm that lasted 3hrs. Tuesday the sun came out again as though nothing had happened.
Thursday we left Portugal and started are journey back to England (58 miles, its a start) to Isla Cristina a small Spanish island just over the border. This has to be one of the best places in Spain. A large wild powdered sand beach, a quaint town which has just enough for travellers and locals a like, a working fishing harbour, and very clean (apart from seagull pooh), we decided to stay a few extra days
Oonagh highest scored at scrabble, with 466 points
Ciao the Chaffers