Social joys

I’ve just fallen asleep after writing but before saving a whole post. Disaster. Here’s a short version… we went to Camara de Lobos with our friends today - Rosemary wanted a haircut - travelling on the bus crammed with locals and visitors. We climbed a steep hill in town to a view point (the photo was taken there) then sat on the wall and waited. Lunch in a cafe, shopping for friends’ dinner, home on another bus. Camara de Lobos is where Churchill liked to go and paint - he’s everywhere , including the loo doors in the first cafe we visited- I’m assuming it was Clemmie in silhouette on the Ladies…

Back at our hotel we crashed for a while before joining our new friends from dinner the other night to have aperos and proper chat as opposed to breakfast-time greetings, before they went to the posh restaurant for their last night and we tottered down to the parrot restaurant for fish skewers and yet another random conversation with the couple at the next table as well as polyglot banter with the staff.

And now I’m off before I lose any more by falling asleep…talk about social joys! (As in Jerusalem the Golden)

Oh: it was a glorious sunny day …