Arums

Another day of unbroken sunshine, this could become boring. :-) When Nell took her dad on the beach this morning he had his shorts and a shirt on. When they came home he was down to just the shorts...

We ventured forth to the shops this afternoon and braved our limited Portuguese skills. They were not required as the shop assistant spoke very good English. We came home with some local cheese, yet another bottle of port, and some bread. We will not be going hungry.

On our way back we had one of those lovely travellers moments. We were outside the market, which was closed, but we're looking at the bread images and wondering if they were the products on sale or simply generic images. I became aware of a voice behind us, turned around and, sure enough the, an elderly lady in a car was talking at us.

We apologised for being English and not understanding. There followed a conversation in Portufringles... she was telling us that the market was closed, would be open in the morning and offering us a lift to a shop that was open now. How kind, how friendly. I saved my carrier bag at her in the well known International signal for "than mountains, but have shopped already".

We were unclear but she was either French and had lived here for forty years or she was Portuguese and had lived in France for that period. Either way, both parties seemed to reach a common understanding in this three language exchange.

I snapped these arums growing outside Reception on the way back to the van. Everything is very lush and verdant here just now, with many flowers evident.

Watched the sunset again tonight. Still no green flash.