Faro

But of course, last night is first...

So, Jeff and I decided that after nearly a week without pizza (can you imagine? lol) we thought we'd try out Luigi's pizza; the pizzaria next to where we ate our fancy dinner in Lagos. Luigi was a young guy, with big thick black glasses who works on his own in a little tiny shop, where he makes pizzas to order. We ordered a mushroom and ham pizza and with a touch of fresh oregano and some olive oil.... Mmmmm. We took it to go and sat outside by a large fountain to devour it, and that's exactly what we did. It was so delicious. Jeff told me to stop "mmmm-ing" after every bite but I couldn't help it! I would absolutely get that pizza at home over our "regular" order.

We then wandered through the centre of town and stopped for dessert and to people watch; Jeff had a beer (lol) and I had a sweet rice dish. Yum. We were tired out and so were fine to head back to our place afterward.

Jeff spent spent half an hour trying to figure out how to watch t.v. on our ipad and after he finally followed my suggestion, it worked... Go figure. We ended up watching an episode of Seinfeld, just like being at home.

We were up at a decent time this morning to pack our bags, clean up our room, have breakfast, say goodbye and thank you to Angela and then head to the bus station. On the way to purchase tickets a very familiar red and white flag caught my eye on someone's bag and my immediate vocal reaction was, "Ah! Fellow Canadians!". This couple was travelling through Portugal on a vacation. Their son lives near us which was pretty neat. I always find meeting other Canadians fun.

Our bus ride to Faro would have taken less than an hour had we driven directly there from Lagos, but the trip took two because we made approximately six stops to pick people up and drop them off. The trip was fine other than my stomach not feeling so hot; I felt a Iittle nauseous... It could have been the continual 'speed up to slow down' driving, something I don't think I have fully recovered from, from my childhood.

Once we arrived we got a taxi because it was way too far to walk. We checked in and unpacked in our hotel room. What a difference from a hostel! I'm not really sure which I prefer better... The private bathroom and shower is nice but there are no cooking facilities and no 'hostel feel' to meet others, however there is a bar downstairs, we could hang out there for a bit.

We headed off down the road to find a grocery store and picked up lunch; turkey slices, buns, juice, chips, chocolate bar, beer and oranges. Excellent. We're all about saving money where we can. We'll go out for dinner tonight somewhere.

After inhaling our lunch, we did the full body susnscreen routine (probably for the last time this trip) and headed to the pool for the rest of the afternoon (3:15-5:45pm). The sun was HOT and the pool was gorgeous, much warmer than the ocean, that's for sure, but no waves.

We're now showered (after the longest shower ever! Every 20 seconds it was, "Ahhhh too hot!!!" then "Ahhhh too cold!!) and the clothes I washed in the tub before lunch are hanging and are nearly dry, it's now time to head out for dinner.

Tonight will probably be pretty low key as we have to be up early tomorrow to head to the airport.

Interesting fact: it's been about 29 degrees average this week where we've been... Do you know what the high will be in Amsterdam tomorrow? 17!!! Seventeen!! Yeesh. Better pull out the pants and long sleeved shirt to adjust!

Update once we're in The Netherlands!