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Europe » Portugal » Alentejo » Vila Nova de Milfontes April 11th 2017

9th April Another beautiful day. A lazy start, picked up the bread from the bar & now see with WiFi that US, post Syria, has now sent warships to the Korean peninsula. Must buy some shares in the company that manufactures Tomahawk missiles. It appears this POTUS doesn’t mess about. Interesting how China said it understood the raid on Syria.. methinks China wants the US to hit N Korean bunkers to save them the trouble, keep their hands clean but keep it as a buffer zone. We’ll never know of course. The S. China Sea issue soon... Yesterday Cathy burnt her feet in the sun, so we decided to stay on site & chill, read & enjoy the day in the warm. But we saw & heard pigeons, ring doves, cuckoos, blackbirds, woodpeckers, bee eaters to ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Alentejo » Vila Nova de Milfontes April 9th 2017

8th April Nice lie in after waking early, always feels better doesn’t it? Bikes out & rode to reception to buy the machine token, complained about the dogs, came back & wrote up the blog for the last day or two. We took the bikes because it’s a 10 minute walk to reception, the site being so big...but almost deserted. After lunch we went off to the local beach, a 15 minute walk away. Wow! Beautiful bay / beach with enormous rollers coming in – there were a couple off surfers in the next bay. I’d forgotten how massive the Atlantic waves are. There were maybe 18 people on the beach, but it was Saturday....in April. Probably around 25* We came back & took the bikes down to reception to get the WiFi & publish the ... read more
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Europe » Portugal » Alentejo » Vila Nova de Milfontes April 8th 2017

Realised now out of shock that Cathy was bitten twice, hip & lower ribs, me once, lower ribs. What an awful night. The dogs were barking all night & we were restless not just because of our sore wounds but reliving the nightmare of the attack. This could be a very sweary blog but I’ll resist...maybe I forgot to mention that whilst we were waiting in the hospital yesterday, a lady who had come in with her ancient mum started talking to me/us...we gestured that we didn’t understand. She took this as clue 1 to carry on. I became so fed up with her I got my phone out, switched on roaming data, typed into Google translate “ We have no scooby doo what you are saying, sorry” She read it, now in Portuguese, & took ... read more
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Europe » Portugal » Alentejo » Vila Nova de Milfontes April 8th 2017

Up early, left the table & chairs out & off. 1 hour later the Dyson said we have arrived – next to field outside Santiago, jolly good. Idea – get phone, switch data roaming on, try Google maps....eta voila, sorted. We were only a few kilometers away. Go into the hospital, find the office location on the ground floor, go to reception first to make sure; no, he took us outside, gestured round the building. Off we go, into an other office round the back. No, she took us outside & pointed to where it was. Next to the mortuary, complete with hearse & coffin outside. Into office to be told that there are no doctors in the morning, he starts at 3pm, very sorry. Oh Joy. So, we were going to go back home & ... read more
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