Monday 25th April 2011

Well the past two weeks have gone quick! It was wonderful to see Emma & Nick and we had such a great time, but it made it very hard to see them go. Maybe it’s because we won’t see them or Matt until we get home now that it hit us all so much. They were lucky with the weather, being sunny and hot for most of their stay. We had breakfast outside and even went swimming in the Atlantic, which wasn’t  that cold but very rough! The girls had lost another game of petanque and the forfeit was to go for a dip! We had a great time playing  petanque but the boys managed to win 9 – 2! Chris you would have loved it!

When the weather wasn’t so sunny we went out in the car to Silves, which had a lovely historic quarter and Emma and I could get excited over it! We also had a drive to Vilamoura to admire the motor yachts in the marina (Carol you would have loved this) and also drove around Val de Lobo admiring all the millionaires houses! Decided that if we had over two million to spend on a holiday home we’d probably opt for Florida’s west coast and a house with a boat dock!

Gave the van a good spring clean inside and out today, ready for leaving tomorrow, when we head back into Spain. First stop outside Seville, where we hope to get the door lock fixed, then on northwards to Madrid and finally back towards Barcelona an France. Portugal has been great, we have all enjoyed it immensely and Quarteira in particular, I’m sure we will be back in the future!