Vilana Armação de Pera

Cl. Porche, 61 Armação de Pera, Algarve, 8126, Portugal

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Making friends with the natives

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Tuesday:

We've been taking it easy and have been chilling out so far. We've been into Lagos to shop and to have a look around the Old Town which has an amazing history influenced by Phoenicians; Greeks; Carthaginians; Romans and Arabians as well as Christians..
Essentially an important sea traffic centre for gold, silver; ivory and slaves. The slave market from 1444 is well preserved and is now used as an art gallery. In 1573 it became the capital of the Algarve ...

KC's social

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KC's New Year Social Gatherings
Our last few days here before we move on have been great, we enjoyed a race night where we were the horse and jockey!! A whist drive where Colin won the male booby prize. and a good walk led by a local resident, Doug, where the highlight was coffee and brandy at a local bar!
On our last day at Albufeira before ...

Christmas in Albufeira

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Great Fun is all we can say, we really are enjoying this and can thoroughly recommend it to all you 'caravanners' and ‘campervanners’ out there sitting at home in the cold saying I wish we were in a nice warm place feeling relaxed and having fun. Well here it is……….Yesterday we enjoyed a relaxed picnic lunch with everyone else Bring your own food and drink style which is good …..Bob did the Santa Claus thing with his box of sweeties (never take ...

You're never too old to party!!!!

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... with varying hemlines. Lots of shorts and bowties. Colin won best dressed man in his waistcoat that I spent several hours sewing white paper napkins to and bowtie made from cardboard and red serviettes and a bit of tinsel.

A good time was had by all.

A big thankyou must go to Bob and Lyn and Terri and Tony our stewards for organising such a good ...

Rally Fun and Games

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... they are in right by the sea with walkways and lovely beaches so we have arranged later in the week to have a grand picnic on the beach (weather permitting of course).

Wednesday brought more bell ringing practice ready for the carol concert which turned out to be hilarious. Jean, who we met in Cerceres is a fellow novice bell ringer and another lady, Christine; and between us we just couldn’t stop giggling. The ...