Big Trip Review pt.5 - Portugal

We figured that at some point during our Big Trip we would need, you know, a holiday. We duly booked a week in a villa in Portugal with our Aussie friends Lari and Rob who are living in Germany. UK, Germany - Portugal makes sense, right?

To be frank I wouldn't particularly want to re-visit the Algarve area (a mix of grim tourist areas and poverty haunted farming districts) but the villa that Lari had booked was glorious. The house was lovely, there was a boules pitch and plenty of space for B1 to run around searching for snail shells. Bizarrely, it also had broadband access giving us the fastest web connection of the entire trip. The best days were when we just hung around and chilled out.

Lari and Rob looked after us completely. They had already booked the villa and hire car but we didn't expect them to do all of the driving, navigating, shopping and cooking. Wine was drunk, canasta was played, and M&I had the most complete rest we've enjoyed since B2 was born.