9am time to check out of Blablabla, we made our last breakie out on the balcony & a Spanish girl made us two espressos' whilst we exchanged travelling stories, then we left a message in Antonio's book & said our farewells 10am we had one last explore around Faro, heading to the old town which we hadn't yet had chance to see. Inside its huge walls, there wasn't much to do but it had plenty of historic buildings & made for some good pictures. We even h...

6am early start to catch the train we'd checked out yesterday due to leave around 7am. We'd pre-packed breakie & left the house in plenty of time, the sun still hadn't risen! But unfortunately the train wasn't running because of strikes, so we were left in a mess but luckily a lady at the bus station helped plan our trip which would take longer than expected on the bus & wouldn't be direct, but it was the only option we had & because we were so keen t...

9.30am after a decent night sleep we showered & made breakfast at Antonio's place out on the balcony, then we caught the 16 bus to Praia de Faro to see the local beach but although the skies were clear it was pretty chilly! 12pm we headed back & had a roam round town to get food from the local store then went back & made lunch at our place & had a picnic on the roof! Everywhere was deserted, it felt like we were bumping into the same people wherev...

4pm took the train from Oxford Road to the airport & then walked to T3 with a man flying to Belfast, who I chatted to along the way.5pm met Laura & checked in, couldn't get mums perfume or the go pro camera for Andy because the duty free is tiny & no cheaper anyways, but everything was on schedule & we boarded at 6.40pm no problem. We even met a lovely Portugese couple visiting family in Altrincham, Cheshire on our flight who were quick to offer u...