Well, looks like thats it, kids. Although our spirits havent totally sunken, I think the rain (in Scotland anyways) is a sure sign that summer is getting drowned out! I tend to cling onto it for dear life. Not wanting to start back uni or college, and not wanting to replace my peep toe shoes with those loyal uggs 🙁 Damn it. But when I come to think of it, I actually am kinda excited about my winter wardrobe, and giving my pink flamingo umbrella some action, and dressing up for halloween, and the run up to good ol’ christmas. But thats me looking way ahead obviously. (If I hear another tv/radio advert mentioning ‘get yours in time for christmas!’ then I think I will scream) Here are my holiday pictures from mine and Davids two week getaway to my auntys house in Alvor, Portugal. We were a bit snap happy – over 200 pics on my digital camera and a full spool of film on my fisheye. So here are a few of the best ones 🙂 Enjoy!
Our first day on the beach – my new raybans and a lovely tesco bikini! (which broke after 4 days by the way! gutted)
We took a picture every night before we went out, using the self timer on my camera. What a hoot! Pulled some ridiculous poses. This is us on our first night.
Drawing in the sand 🙂 Princess Peach and Rupert Bear, auw!
This is the main strip. It wasnt tacky or too touristy, we felt safe and comfortable, unlike some places I’ve been on holiday!
This is at the bottom of the main strip, loads of restaurants that cooked all their fish dishes on bbq’s outside for everyone to see. Looked awesome, but was always really smokey!
Just going for a wee wander after our dinner 🙂
This is the beach on a saturday, ridiculously busy! We went most other days too and it was a tad quiter. Full of local people, and a little man who ran up and down the beach selling the best donuts for a euro 🙂
This is the night we went through to Pria De Rocha, it was much busier and full of neon flashing lights and street stalls. Just a general busy hustle and bustle! Think we prefered the calmer streets of Alvor however.
Man gutting his fish from that days catch. They are fish crazy over there, its the priority industry and their harbour is full of so many fishing boats and boats that are peoples home!
I noticed that the Portugese dabble in a bit of graffiti here and there 🙂
These two were awesome. We saw lots of street performers but me and David liked them the best. The man was essentially a pirate playing a bass made from a mop sticking out of a bucket (I wish I had asked him to sing the spongebob squarepants theme tune) and the woman was such a cute singer. Probably best compared to Phoebe from friends when she would sing with her guitar in Central Perk (smelly cat!)
This is David when we went ona boat trip 🙂 Along the rocky coves and coastline and then we stopped to snorkel and look for crabs. The free sangria on board was yummy. I have a taste for sangria now!
Some days the waves were so calm, but then for a few the whitewater was crashing down on the beach and there was yellow flags (which means caution) The waves werent entirely surfable but I wish I’d had a board and wetsuit 🙁 Mostly kite surfers were out because the wind was so strong.
Ha, it was so strong that we actually had to dig our umbrella into the sand some days for shelter!
Auw. Our one year anniversary. Im the luckiest girl ever ♥ We had a lovely meal, walked down to the harbour to catch the sunset and exchanged our cards and gifts in the morning when we woke up. He makes me laugh, and keeps me safe – I love this gorgeous boy to pieces and I wouldnt have things any other way. Adore you David 🙂
My freckles started to come out! Another thing about being on holiday I did enjoy is having an excuse to try a different cocktail every night. Yummm.
Haha, David loved the sand. And I got bloody irritated if I had just put cream on and sand blew all over me! Here is David after me burying him in the sand, and another one of when he dug a hole that he was awfy proud of :p We played bat and ball like every day at the beach too. But it is established that I suck majorly.
We went into another local town one day, Portimao. I took a picture of this building along one of the main streets because even though it was falling apart and closed off, it looked so interesting. Literally like it had stepped out of a 1950’s horror movie. You could see inside where the roof was falling down, how creepy! Further into Portimao they had a huuuge shopping centre called Continente, with a supermarket at the bottom and a level of shops on the top. A few days before This we also went to a water park, I didnt take my camera for fear of loosing it. But we had such a funny day there too. It was really clean and safe! I probs coulda taken my camera and not had to worry about it. David said if I went head first down the Kamikaze (you can only imagine what this slide was like due to its name) then he would buy me the Hello Kitty clock I’d had my eye on back in alvor. Well, so I bloody well did it! Im such a scaredy cat though. What a giggle 🙂
Time to go home 🙁 Our apartment was lovely, the food was yummy, the people were friendly, and the Algarve in all its scenic splendour did impress us both! My skin felt and looked so much better in the sun. I enjoyed experimenting with different eye make up each night, and in general I think we both just felt and looked healthier. But I suppose everyone does after a holiday, eh? I took enough clothes and money to last me, which I was glad of. I actually came back with 50 euros, but I just exchanged that back into pounds to put towards furniture for my new room at my grans which I am now fully settled into 🙂 So its pretty safe to say I think that was the break that we both needed. And since its a family apartment, I know I’ll be back there sooner rather than later! Being a skint student I dont think I would have gotten away on holiday otherwise, so Im grateful to my aunty for letting us stay there for nothing. Anyone else got any positive/negative summer experiences they can share? I’ve had my fair share of rubbish ones I’ll tell you that. This one has definately been the best so far 🙂
2 Comments
ONiC
you too look so cute together. and sounds like a very fun vacation! welcome back home, hun :]
September 23, 2009 at 2:20 pmIgnacio J. Rivas
Ey! I´ve been in Alvor this summer with my girlfriend! i´ts very nice…ciao!!!
September 23, 2009 at 3:01 pm