Tuesday, May 20, 2014

We Found The Poms

This morning (ie 19 May) we set the autopilot to Sagres which is right at the southwest tip of Portugal and away we went ...

We spotted a lot more storks today!  They do a great balancing act ...

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We pulled into a motorhome service point as we were very low on water.  Whilst filling the tank and emptying the nasties we got chatting to a couple of Poms in a campervan who were heading back to the UK after spending 2 months in Spain.  They confirmed what we thought, most of the poms head in a dead straight line to the south of Spain, missing out on the north coast of Spain and the western side of Portugal ... which is a shame as it is such a lovely area.  He reckoned we would start to see some today as we reached the Algarve.

We stopped for lunch at a lovely deserted cove, once again no one around ...

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Sammie stayed just off the beach with Elaine as he is scared of the noise of the waves!!  I took Bombo down and threw his stick for him.  He won't fetch a stick in a park etc, but take him to the beach and he goes nuts for it ...

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Fetch the stick, you bugger ...

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He loves it ...

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I also found a huge UXB!!

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A lovely spot ...

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It was a fair hike up a steep hill to get back to the motorhome ...

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We motored on untill we came to the Lands End of Portugal - Sagres ...

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We found a spot to park up amongst many more motorhomes, including a couple from the UK.
We took the dogs for a walk to check out the town... the first thing we noticed was that there were a lot of young 'uns around, the second thing we noticed was that it seemed a pretty crummy town! This was the first disappointment since leaving the UK.  It is a strange place - it just seems to have been a popular tourist town that has died ... 'a place that once was' as Elaine so poetically put it!

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There were no Maccas on our route today, so we found a bar with wifi ... which was full of poms….blokes wearing Spurs football shirts and screaming kids!  Thankfully they all buggered off just after we arrived!  So we spent a leisurely couple of hours in the bar doing the blog and emails. When we do it at a Maccas it is in and out ASAP!

There is a nice looking little port below the bar, we will check that out in the morning ,,,

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Also in the bar was a mum sparrow feeding her young 'uns chocolate ice cream!!

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Here is today’s location...

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Tomorrow we head East, we are thinking of heading inland for a change ...

20 May:  We are publishing this blog from the wifi of the same bar we were at yesterday - except this time we are sitting outside in the van!!

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