Third post from Portugal

Another brief note from Portugal with a few more photos.

Today is Wednesday, March 3. We have been here for 2 weeks - time seems to be moving along too quickly.

Went to the Albufeira Gypsy Market Monday (photo included) and bought a few things. Had an interesting interaction with a woman selling table cloths, of which we bought 2 after some fun "barganhando". Wish I had taken a photo of the woman and the game being played. In the end I think we got the table cloths for a reasonable price, part of which was the price of the entertainment.

The weather guessers are often quite wrong, but on occasion have been correct. On Sunday we did have a storm with heavy wind and rain which had been predicted. The sky looked a bit threatening when the four of us set out on our walk which ended at a pastry shop where we were having lunch when the storm began in earnest. Had to get a taxi home to avoid a real drenching.

Monday was excellent - sunny, warm and not windy. We made our way along the beach to old town at low tide (included is a photo of Ruth surveying things from the pier at the east end of oldtown) and had lunch on a patio in the sun overlooking the ocean.

Today Jean's sister, Ev, arrives and on Saturday we will all go to the town of Loule to the excellent farmer's market there. There will no doubt be photos from Loule which I will include in the next blog post.

Hard not to include more photos from time on the beach so there a few more in this post. An evening photo from a couple of days ago, one from the afternoon and one from Monday evening when light from sunset provided some interesting colour.