Blogs from Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal, Europe - page 5

Bom dia a Portugal e uma boa Pasqua (good day from Portugal and happy Easter. Today is a hot, glorious, sit around the pool and drink wine and port kind of day. It’s very warm here today, about 23 degrees and, because pretty well everything is closed for Easter Sunday, this is exactly what we’re doing (except for Molly Maid, Renita, who insists on washing the floors). After breakfast, the girls went to the church in Alfeizerea for the Easter service. Pete & I walked into town where we found our usual coffee shop open for business. I sent off a couple of blogs and we were able to catch up on other stuff on the internet. We also had coffee while we waited. The girls soon showed up and Jo taught us how to say ... read more

Friday 8.1.2010 Day 85 Portugal We did our washing and went for a walk to a fort along the cliffs it was a fantastic view (we forgot the camera) but we could not get to the fort by the cliffs so we went back and got the car it was not a very good fort and had been turned in hotel maybe by the government as they do that here some times. There is a bull fighting ring walking distance to our resort and on all our drives we see them in every town the size seem to be in proportion to the size of the town. None of the locals I have spoken to say they are in to it they all say they are in to football but someone must be going I am ... read more

Monday 4.1.2010 Day 81 Portugal coast Algarve We went to the info session for the resort and had a look around the resort. Latter we when to a Portugal lesson. Then we did dinner and went to the reptile show that night. They had a Mexican turtle, an American Iguana and a rare boa snake that was instinct in the wild and only in a few zoos. We got to hold the Iguana it was very nice. ... read more

Oh, the sun, the golden cliffs, and the golden sand of Albufeira - what a contrast to Ireland. We REALLY enjoyed the sun and the warm weather, but not the cold Atlantic waters. Albufeira is a quaint seaside village where the lifeguards wear bright yellow T-shirts that say, "Matador Salvador" (Lifeguard), where people spend the entire day lazing at the beach, and then party until the wee hours of the morning. Since I've written about Albufeira in the past, I'll concentrate on the very unique sand sculpture festival that we visited on my birthday. These were definitely the largest and most elaborate sand sculptures that we've ever seen. The festival theme was, "The Inventions of Mankind". It covered a variety of topics and historical periods. Funky jazz music was playing from concealed speakers which added a ... read more

April 13, 2008 We left leaving Portimao this morning, so it was breakfast and onto the bus for an hour until we arrived in Albufeira, an Arabic influenced town. We were given 5 hours here, so we headed to the beach. Now since we, especially me, were a little colored from the day of tanning before, we lathered up our sunscreen before laying out. We didn’t have much to do, so again walks happened. After awhile on the beach, I decided I needed to flip over, so the clothes went on so I wouldn’t get even more burned! Julie, Katie, and I had spent enough time on the beach, and decided we wanted to walk around. So we got all of our stuff together and went shopping. While we were walking around we stopped at a ... read more