20th May 2009

After breakfast we walked up to the café on the site and had some coffee and used their free Wi-fi to collect mails and things.  At least we'll be able to keep in touch whilst we're here. We then walked into town using the main road rather than the beach route, and was surprised that it was not actually very far by road.  There was a weekly market in full swing, lots of clothes, bags, shoes, everything you could think of.  The people looked a bit suss, but it was okay.  We spent ages walking round it and bought a few things. A tablecloth, which Tina knocked down from €15 to €6 - although I don’t think the woman stallholder was too pleased! - a bracelet with names on for Shanice and Rhianna, which they made whilst you waited, and a shaky drum thing for Emmanuel, though I expect Rhianna will want that too. We had a lovely chicken salad for lunch in a cafe, walked to the supermarket and bought a few bits but it was very expensive, and came back to the site.  We sat outside and Tina made some cards whilst I played guitar.  We love evenings like this; it's what this was meant to be about.  Portugal - definitely the best country so far!