(posted by ange written March 10)
Today I just had to take the day off. Yes, I decided what I really needed today was some good old R&R. After spending the past few days driving here and there and everywhere, going from village to village, beach to beach, ruins to ruins, old city to old city, taking in a cornucopia of sights and sounds (well, not really sounds so much, but it flows better in the sentence), it was time for me to chillax, as we (Dave and I) say. So no travelling about for me today. As it happens, the weather here in Albufeira is quite nice. As in, grab your Ipod and tune out by the pool nice. So I spent some time in the morning by the pool with Dave. Had some breakfast. Then as Dave headed off on a castle hunt, I headed off in search of a lounge chair by the pool for some more sun time. I will definitely be bringing home a tan. :) Once soaked in sun for the day I puttered around the house, lazed on the couch and finally got myself showered up and dressed around 6:30. Aaaahhhh. A beautiful day.
This beautiful day followed an absolutely perfect day yesterday...the beauty of having a car...freedom. Freedom means never having to follow a plan. We set off for Lagos, the plan being to take a little boat ride around some rock formations we had heard about, maybe stop at a place where you walk down 200 steps to some beautiful beach or something (we were exactly sure, this information being gathered from a lovely Danish girl with a strong accent and imperfect English), and then spend the afternoon wandering around the town of Lagos. Well, we arrived at Ponte da Piedade, which happened to be both the site of the 200 steps and the little boat rides (which sit at the bottom of said steps). OMG! This place was amazing. We arrive atop a cliff, or cliffs, actually. Stunning. We look down at dozens of natural rock formations, amazing shapes and arrangements. We go on a photo spree. Eventually we make our way down the stairs, hire a boat and are taken about all of these formations and natural grottoes. It is+043.jpg)
absolutely breathtaking. Hugh Heffner - you don't know from grotto! This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Words cannot describe these formations, so you will have to wait for the pictures. After 45 minutes of tooling around such natural beauty and wonder, seeing a city just wasn't on the menu. We needed more natural beauty. So off to Praia Da Rocha...an absolutely stunning beach that is actually man made (which does not in any way take away from it's beauty). It is lined with rock formations and goes on forever. We kicked back here for a couple of hours to soak up sun before heading home. It was deemed to be the perfect day.
Today I just had to take the day off. Yes, I decided what I really needed today was some good old R&R. After spending the past few days driving here and there and everywhere, going from village to village, beach to beach, ruins to ruins, old city to old city, taking in a cornucopia of sights and sounds (well, not really sounds so much, but it flows better in the sentence), it was time for me to chillax, as we (Dave and I) say. So no travelling about for me today. As it happens, the weather here in Albufeira is quite nice. As in, grab your Ipod and tune out by the pool nice. So I spent some time in the morning by the pool with Dave. Had some breakfast. Then as Dave headed off on a castle hunt, I headed off in search of a lounge chair by the pool for some more sun time. I will definitely be bringing home a tan. :) Once soaked in sun for the day I puttered around the house, lazed on the couch and finally got myself showered up and dressed around 6:30. Aaaahhhh. A beautiful day.
This beautiful day followed an absolutely perfect day yesterday...the beauty of having a car...freedom. Freedom means never having to follow a plan. We set off for Lagos, the plan being to take a little boat ride around some rock formations we had heard about, maybe stop at a place where you walk down 200 steps to some beautiful beach or something (we were exactly sure, this information being gathered from a lovely Danish girl with a strong accent and imperfect English), and then spend the afternoon wandering around the town of Lagos. Well, we arrived at Ponte da Piedade, which happened to be both the site of the 200 steps and the little boat rides (which sit at the bottom of said steps). OMG! This place was amazing. We arrive atop a cliff, or cliffs, actually. Stunning. We look down at dozens of natural rock formations, amazing shapes and arrangements. We go on a photo spree. Eventually we make our way down the stairs, hire a boat and are taken about all of these formations and natural grottoes. It is
+043.jpg)
absolutely breathtaking. Hugh Heffner - you don't know from grotto! This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Words cannot describe these formations, so you will have to wait for the pictures. After 45 minutes of tooling around such natural beauty and wonder, seeing a city just wasn't on the menu. We needed more natural beauty. So off to Praia Da Rocha...an absolutely stunning beach that is actually man made (which does not in any way take away from it's beauty). It is lined with rock formations and goes on forever. We kicked back here for a couple of hours to soak up sun before heading home. It was deemed to be the perfect day.
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