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March 13 - Portimao and Lagos



We had a great day today. It was our first day since we have been here with no rain.

We headed out to Lagoa to do a webcam cache. We wanted a special one for our 21,000th. After about half an hour and a dozen tries, we finally figured it out😁.

We walked around a bit, but it was very touristy. They had a nice wooden walkway with nice views of the cliffs and ocean.

We even spotted a tourist taking pictures😁 
Look what I found ?
Ceramic everywhere




We then went to Portimao which is a fairly big town, so we quickly continued on to Lagos which is smaller and less touristy with about 25,000 people.  Here we had a great lunch eating with the locals. The owner spoke neither English or French, but we had help from the other diners, one from the Monchique area spoke English and the other one French so they helped us order. Not understanding Portuguese, we thought that the complete menu meant that he would bring us a menu to choose from, but it means that for a fixed price you have the plate of the day with a drink and dessert. A drink is a pitcher of wine.  Jacques had to drive so I sacrificed myself and drank part of his share. It was the dessert that won us over. The owner called it pudding, but it was the best flan I ever ate with a caramel sauce. It was delicious.

Rollande sacrificing herself


Oh so good
After that meal we had to work it off, so we did a short 1-hour loop to find a few caches.

The day went by too quickly and we will have to go to that area again to finish our sightseeing.

The man who spoke French (man behind Rollande in the third photo up) gave us a picture of a sailboat named "Hermione-Lafayette" it is a boat that sailed during the war that was built in Rochefort France. It is coming to Portimao in May. He is involved in having it come here. It has sailed all along the eastern American seaboard as far as St. Pierre & Miquelon. He had been in the merchant marines and knew who the Acadians were. He said," vous êtes le peuple avec le drapeau qui est le tricolore français avec une étoile dans le bleu."

Looking for a cache behind a fig tree. No luck this time