OLHAO to LISBON Friday 24 February After a great breakfast prepared by Rui we wandered down to the foreshore markers. These are in a couple of purpose built building - one for fruit, vegetable, meat etc and the other for fish. There were hundreds of different varieties of fish. We came across lots of school kids dressed up for a festival. They were singing and dancing in the street and having a wonderful time. So good to see happy kids!!! We met Rui's wife, An...

Raining. Lazy morning. Rain cleared so we could walk to the bus station 3pm bus to Faro in Portugal. Rained all the way. Arrived just before 5 and realised our hotel was 20 minutes back the way we came so caught local bus Run down buildings. Dust on cars and everything else - see pic. I said to David it looks like some of the Sahara desert had blown over. Guess what?!!! That's exactly what had happen the night before!!! Dust had blown over from Africa!!! The...

We spent hours this morning poking around the massive semi circular Plaza de Espana. It was tile city. Even the lamp post and balcony balustrades were covered in ceramic tiles. Just magnificent. We visited an old, very comprehensive military museum inside the building. So much to see. The green hop on hop off bus took us on a tour of the different parts of the city. The world trade exhibition was held here in 1992 and its obvious that Seville received a substan...

The Plaza Del Toros (bull ring)

A gorgeous toreador's outfit that we saw in the museum. There were heaps of others too - very ornate.