10am another pretty decent night sleep, shower & change. Then off to central station to wave off Lars & meet Jasper & Bram from Maastricht off their train just in time. 11am together we caught the free ferry across the harbour to a cute seaside like place for late breakie. A shame my muesli & yogurt was mostly yoghurt & no muesli but the company was good & I got to know the Dutch boys better, plus Marty's mum showed up so that was cool. T...

10am day two. Slept a solid 6 hours much better than I'd expected, Marty had done a good job to make us all comfortable! Showered & changed, muesli for breakie & an earlyish start with the weather in our favour. Clear blue skies, we headed to a bike hire place & picked up a bike for €11 each 1pm first we grabbed a quick lunch from opposite the hire store, just about missing a down pour if hail which luckily passed just in time for us to start our r...

7pm boarding a flight alone for the first time, not as bad as I'd thought. A bit of turbulence but the flight was over in an instant, catching the sun rise as we descended & flew over a beautiful stretch of coastline & a few miles of flat farmland before touching down in the dam at 9am. 9am a few simple steps through arrivals & down to the train platform headed to central station. The huge double decker was packed with passengers but 15 minutes &...

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...