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I was up ealy on Boxing day and had a swim before most of the other guests had hit breakfast, the weather was lloking good so I got changed and hopped on the hotel bus to the Harbour. I decided to have a wander and then hed to the Marina for lunch.

There were some super yachts ion the Marina ans was assome 'not 'super yachts, eveything seemed a little quiet,  so I jumped in a taxi and headed back up to the hotel.

I then walked down to 'Graces' restaurant, it is English owned and I would normally avoid these places when on holiday, however I thought I would pop in ,, see if they did cocktails and have an early cocktail hour.

I ended up having piri piri chicken which was  very good , and a Limoncello Spritz.

The Maitre'd  Victor was lovely and said that I was welcome to come back just for drinks anytime, (this actually being a restaurant and not  bar)

I give the cocktail a 9/10.

I wandered back along the road and heard someone shouting me, it was Karl and Karen ( not Carl and Carol as I had originally thought in the taxi to the hotel, I put that down to 'aeroplane ears')

I was heading to the shop so said that I would call in on my way back...................

2 bottles of Portuguese fizz, a couple of vodka tonics cheese and ham toasties later and it was 10pm and time for bed.. What a lovely evening with a very lovely couple.. We arranged to meet up the next day, I am saying next day as I have absolutely no idea what day it is .

The next day ( Saturday it seems) saw us hit by rain and quite a lot of it, I walked to the shop early and was soaked to the skin by the time I got back, this walk is max 5 mins in total.

After drying out and having some breakfast I decided that I would go and have a swim, obviously there was no one in the pool apart from the inflatables.

I messaged Karl and Karen and arranged to meet at Graces at 3pm, and settled down to watch a film, I was not really ready for another soaking.

By 3pm we had dodged the showers and  settled down for burgers and a Moscow mule. which is one of the best I have had.

 We were soaked again by the time we got back to the apartments and I decided to keep on walking and headed off in the direction of the 'Golf'. I walked until it was starting to get dark. This part of Vilamoura is quiet at this time of year, with the exception of the squawking of the parakeets which are everywhere, The rest of the  birds seem to be very tiny and there are some stunning blue birds which I keep trying to photograph but fail every time.

Tomorrow I am hopefully heading to a museum near the harbour to have a final day of geekiness.

Today it is raining again so I am about to go swimming and then see what happens after that.

Happy Sunday.