Blogs from Portugal, Europe - page 170

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Hi all. I've recreived the final entries from Pete, Renita and Jo. They're really tired but should be on their way home this week end (April 24th). I'm really hoping that they don't get as far as London or Frankfurt and then get stuck there. Keep your finger's crossed for them. I think all was finally forgiven , at least by Renita and Jo, because they finally found a shoe store and bought shoes. Pete, well, he wasn't so lucky. I'm going to forward their entries now that I've figured out how to transfer them from my home computer to my netbook where the blog resides. Unfortunately, Pete embedded his pictures into his e-mail instead of sending them as attachments so I can't import them into this software. Sorry. (don't worry guys, Pete didn't send any ... read more

After breakfast we walked to the Grand mall where we all caught up on our e-mail ­ and it’s just our luck that they have free Wi-Fi - and did a little shopping. The afternoon was spent sight seeing around the town. Appropriately, Tavira is known as the Little Venice of Portugal and rightly so, it’s very beautiful. There are a multiple of bridges that span the Rio Gilao river which runs through the town, two are strictly for pedestrians, one being the Roman Bridge dating back to 1657. On our walk we visited the Church of Misericordia, from 1541, it has beautiful blue tiled walls inside showing you how to lead a good Christian life. No pictures taking were allowed here. Beside the church are the remains of the Palace of the Gallery, a 17th ... read more

Today we left for Tavira without ever having met the owners of the villa we rented in Albufeira. They were due to meet us on the first day we arrived but never showed up and neither did they bid us farewell, funny way of doing business, luckily we hadn’t given them the deposit they had requested. The taxi was right on time but the driver nearly got a hernia trying to lift Jocelyne’s suitcase into the back of the cab but all’s well that ends well and off we went to the bus station. We took what was supposed to be a direct bus route to Faro but it made so many stops that I lost track of how many times it did. Finally, upon arriving in Faro we got off the bus and after ... read more

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