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Albufeira
August 27, 2006 by zankbennett.
Mojitos!!!
Sitting on the cliffs above albufeire having a strawberry crepe looking down at the beach. They rent out water bicycles with slides. People pack on these things and sit out off the shore for hours sliding and diving into the water. Looks like a blast…might have to get into that today. Yesterday slept until 4:30 pm…today up at 9 am. Up until 6 am both nights. Go figure. Jetlag still in full effect. Playing an acoustic show tonight at a local pub…that didn’t take long…should be rusty as ever but should be fun at the same time.
Must get some sun today…the whiteness is overwhelming.
More in the afternoon…
Here´s the view at sunset from our 5th floor balcony!
Yessss!
learning Dutch!
James borrowing sunglasses…
Night on the balcony
Our favorite waitress…who´s that IDIOT with the closed eyes!?
Me and James
What happens when a guy goes to the bathroom and girls grab the camera…!
My first one of these in years…great stuff!
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The Algarve…
August 27, 2006 by zankbennett.
Arrived in the Algarve:
Took the train from Sintra to Albufeira without a hitch. Stopped at the train station in Lisbon to retrieve my big bag and guitar from the lockers there where I´d left it. Had three hours to kill waiting for the train, so I walked a block to the coast of the Atlantic and played some guitar and sat out under the sun and watched the boats go by and even managed a late-morning nap. Not at all a stressful way to start the day.
The train to Albufeira. With the addition of a Portuguese phone card, I had made arrangements for an ocean-view cottage and a pick up at the train station. Once there, I met James, a cook and traveller who had left Canada to come here to do a sailboat delivery back to north-eastern Canada. He was looking for a place, and I had booked something outside my budget, so it was perfect. We´ve been doing the day to day here, which consists of going to the beach in the afternoons, going for a swim then getting into town in the evenings for the chaos that is Albufeira night-life. The town at night reminds me entirely of Mykonos, Greece. Narrow alleyways twist through the pedestrian part of the town and connect the main square to lots of shops-bars-restaurants and eventually lead to the ªtunnelª to the beach.
The sangria here is amazing and everyone makes it fresh when ordered. People in general are friendly. The people-watching is a good 9 out of 10, especially in the later hours. I´m likely the whitest person on the continent!
James, Jessica, me.
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