I promise not to make the weather a theme of this blog, but just a bit more about weather. It was another stormy day Wednesday with high winds, intermittent rain and cool temperatures. The powerful effect of the wind on the ocean and ocean on land can be very impressive and make for some interesting photos. Photos one and two show the pier in old town during the heavy wind and seas - the third is the pier Thursday when the wind had abated, the skies were clearing and temperatures reached around 20 degrees Celsius. Extreme variability of the weather has been the pattern so far this year.
Jean's sister, Ev, arrived on Wednesday just in time for the beautiful day on Thursday. We walked to old town in the morning on the beach at low tide, sat in the sun at Sir Harry's Pub while enjoying coffee and/or fresh squeezed orange juice.
Variability of the weather continues - today is comfortably warm, overcast and quite dark at times though no rain yet. Ruth and I walked this morning, without getting wet, to a photography shop to get some prints of some of her photos for her to paint from.
We are off by bus tomorrow to the town of Loulé to go to the farmer's market to get fresh veggies and local honey, almonds and figs, among other things. Photos of the market in the next blog.
This afternoon or tomorrow John and I plan to go to to the train station to get the tickets for our train trip to Lisboa next Tuesday. We will be in Lisboa until Thursday. We have been there before on a tour so know a bit about it and are really looking forward to being there for 2 1/2 days on our own. More about it after we return.
Two documentary photos of places we frequent - number 4 is the front of our building - less interesting, I think, than the back - a bit of which in photo 5.
Must be nice. It's definitely spring in Vancouver, but not 20 deg yet. We're still recovering from the Olympic hangover. Thanks for sharing.
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