Monday 4th January Happy New Year to everyone, I know it’s been a while since the last blog but we’ve been soo busy!! Christmas Day was spent sunbathing on the beach with a roast in the afternoon. I cracked open…

24th December 2015 We’re back in Aramacao de Pera, right on the beach watching the sea. We went to Faro last Saturday to check out the airport and make sure we knew where we were meant to be, checked out…

Tuesday 15th December I really am surprised by some of the comments from our last blog – do you mean to say that there are some of you that read this and are worried that we might stop? Sorry if…

Friday 11th December We stayed an extra day at Odeliete making three nights in all, I’m making a distinction here, I would normally call it three days but we pay for nights our host was making sure that we had…

Monday 7th December It’s been three days since the last blog and things have taken a turn for the worse. Now we have 100% cloud cover and it’s gone a little bit chilly, only 15ºC today but first things first.…

Friday 4th December Only 21 days to go, or for us insomniacs, one more sleep. Minas de Sao Domingo, we’re in a mining town, I thought I had read somewhere it was a silver mine, the area is known for…

Wednesday 2nd December We left Monsaraz surprisingly early for us, not that we had any true plans of where we were going, there were four places marked on our map and if the first didn’t suit then the second might……

Monday 30th November The alarm bells went off at 8.30am this morning, a large flock of sheep, some wearing bells woke us up. On the way to our next stop we passed this drinking fountain, very extravagant. Our destination is…

Sunday 29th November Last night was not a quiet night. Almost as soon as the circus started up with very loud bass music a riot broke out. We thought it was a riot but we were parked facing the outside…