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Monday, 16th August, 2004

Notes from 16th Aug 2004
[posted at 10:00 GMT]    

Today we arrived in south of Portugal, to the small city called Quarteira. It wasn't the best begging as we arrived at 8:00 local time in front of apartment and reception was closed. Title on the door indicates that it will be open from 9:00. Luckily after around 20 minutes older man came and open earlier as he know he should expect us.
Anyway we have to wait again until at least 11:00 o´clock for our room as they have to clean it up. Than we have got option to move to top floor apartment with nice view or other one on second floor. As I really likes view I went for first with possibility to switch to other as Viera doesn't like higher floors (in this case fourth).
After we had move in the apartment we find out that view was nice but furniture was in desolate state as well as beds. Very hard mattresses. Well I am not too much picky but for the money we pay I was expecting much much more. We complaint a little and we have got a lot of promises but no action. So we waiting for tomorrow when we should be able to switch to the other apartment, which we saw and it is in much better state with exception of the view :-))

After we have got some sleep afternoon, being awake from 01:45 at the morning we felt much better. And we went for a dinner at around 20:00. We found nice restaurant next to the port and fish market building. Service was great and food! I never eat better fish in my life. Well I didn't eat a lot of them. It was really great sitting on terrace and watching fisher mens leaving for fishing in a dark of the evening. We eat too much, portion for two people was like for four and we also pay a lot. Too much I think, but it was great and we have got our experience :-)
Tired we went to sleep on terrible beds on hard mattresses. I asleep in two minutes, I think.