Not knowing where we’re going to end up today we took extra
care to empty the waste and fill up with fresh water, including the spare
bottles we are carrying before heading out, once again to the nearest Lidl to
top up the groceries. Not having a huge food storage capacity we've found that
this is a good way to ensure we've always got fresh stuff – and there is a Lidl
or Aldi in almost every town, some of them including British food too.
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| Roundabout Art - outside a waterpark |
Once again taking the N125 we bumbled westward before seeing
the signs for Albufeira, a town we've not visited so turned off. Bren quickly
found an aire close by so TomTom was instructed to take us there. It turned out
that the aire was actually a low-season “tolerated” car park right overlooking
a tiny beach and cliffs amongst dozens of holiday apartments, nearly all
currently closed. As usual there were several French vans there but plenty of
room for us so after deciding not to park right on the cliff edge, we decided
to stay over the weekend. There were no facilities but having already done a
full service and shop this was fine – location this time was all.
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| Ships that pass in the (day) |
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| Towards Albufeira from our pitch |
Unfortunately the weather started to make itself felt with
increasing cloud chasing us back indoors, but we can sit here just as well as
on a campsite, and it’s free!
On our way here, just as we left Quarteira we noticed that
we had no power to the various accessories, e.g. camera and satnav. A bit of
testing showed it was a fuse and we eventually discovered a short on the
netbook charger. So we probably won’t be able to use “Nelly” much now. No
worries! Oh yes, a gas bottle ran out yesterday so we’ll have to remember to
get a refill in the next few days, although it should last us 10 days or so.
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