Bracing for Danielle at Albufeira

 Monday 12/09/22

As I write this, the first few raindrops have begun to fall on Bokkie's roof.  We've packed away the awning and chairs and wrapped up the bikes in anticipation of a fairly long rainy spell.  

Portugal is very dry at the moment so hopefully they get some good rainfall without any damage.  As usual, the press have created quite a lot of hype over the approaching typhoon, Danielle, which was headed to the UK but changed course to Portugal when it heard Charmaine was coming to visit us.  Typical Micklem luck! 😆

Holiday flats on every available inch of space

Compare this photo to our last visit in 2019 winter.
Albufeira Feb 2019

We've been making the best of the good weather over the past few days, exploring the area and settling into camp life.  This is a very noisy, bustling camp with loud music events every night which isn't our normal type of site but we're leaning into it.  The Portuguese schools reopen this week so there was a final flurry of partying on Friday and Saturday followed by a mass-exodus yesterday with a few die-hards leaving today. 

It's great fun watching all the goings-on in the camp, and seeing what people get up to - we even had the police in the camp yesterday. Looks like some youngsters got up to no-good in Albufeira town the previous evening!

Things are already pretty good, but so is the coffee.

Sand Art

The approaching storm didn't stop the beach-goers.

Our campsite is absolutely huge (with a large pool, restaurant, 2 bars and even a hairdresser), so it suddenly looks quite empty but we have already noticed the next wave of travellers arriving.  

We're really enjoying it here so hope the weather doesn't put too much of a dampener on things as we're looking forward to showing Charmaine a bit of camp-life for a week or so.

Ultra-competitive Toni, taking the lead.