What's that in the sky?

Sorry for the sarcasm in the title but I couldn’t resist. We went for a walk today down to Luz, which is just across the highway and down the road from my mum and dad’s place. It started to rain not long after we left but cleared up till it was pretty darn warm. Only for the clouds to let go this afternoon -- after we had returned to the house -- like Noah was retesting the Ark.

Luz is right on the water and, as you can see from the pics, the surf was huge! G managed to get a bit of castle building in. Anwen had decided to stay at the house with everyone else and be entertained by her adoring fans.

It is very British in this part of the Algarve. Actually that’s an understatement, English pubs and restaurants are everywhere -- along with right hand drive cars and pale people. All in all, I’d have to say I’d steer clear of the south coast, unless you have a desperate urge to see “Little Britain”.

If you drive North into the hills you begin to get back to Portuguese Portugal. It is much more rustic and attractive with less concrete and more green.

It finally dawned on me why it feels so different here, and it comes down to the lack of Christmas lights everywhere. They decorate the center of their towns but nowhere else.

We did some shopping the other day for G -- we had brought very little for him -- the cool thing was that they wrapped everything for us in the store, no charge and with a little balloon for each present.

Anyway we have yet to finish the wrapping and getting ready for tomorrow, so we’ll leave you for now and wish you all a Happy Christmas, relax and eat a lot… we will!

Jak, Dee, G and Anwen