11/02/2024 08:58 AM

Portsmouth to Portugal 8: 21 September

After a fabulous breakfast buffet (if you can have cake for breakfast, always have cake for breakfast) and another swim, it was time to check out of our temporary life of luxury. After buying some postcards in the gift shop, where the assistant waved some with an older photo of the hotel and told me "This is from the James Bond time!"

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10/28/2024 05:08 PM

Portsmouth to Portugal 7: 20 September

Today we were leaving our James Bond apartment for a James Bond hotel. We were very offended to wake up and find it was raining, but it had stopped by the time we set off south to Estoril, near Lisbon. Wildfires were still burning and there had been motorway closures, but although the sky was still hazy and there were burnt trees beside the road, our journey was fine.

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10/25/2024 06:07 PM

Portsmouth to Portugal 6: 19 September

A busker played Skyfall on sax as I walked through the main square. I was tourist shopping, wandering, buying postcards. I found a shop dedicated to fancy tinned fish and spent a ridiculous amount, and now I have to work out what to do with a small can of octopus (I regret nothing). Howard and I had a coffee near the apartment, then I sallied forth for an adventure on the Metro, looking for an aviation museum I’d found on Google Maps. (The Porto Metro is the kind where you have to buy a rechargeable card and add tickets to it, so now I had a bonus souvenir.)

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10/21/2024 06:19 PM

Portsmouth to Portugal 5: 18 September

I was eager to be out exploring and left the apartment before Howard woke up, roaming the streets until a delicious bakery smell lured me into a café for coffee and a pastry filled with Nutella. The town centre is wonderfully walkable (although it does go up and down a lot) and every corner brings a new scenic surprise.

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10/17/2024 10:36 PM

Portsmouth to Portugal 4: 17 September

We ate breakfast watched by a small and apparently very angry turtle in a tank on the dining-room windowsill. Two kittens appeared as I was checking out, and started playing with the laces of my motorcycle boots.

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