Different viewpoint

Gosh, I'm bored.  Words that have now been uttered multiple times since we arrived here at the time, destination and hotel chosen by MrRIU.

I cant decide if he has gotten more grumpy as he has aged or if I just notice it more.  It certainly doesn't impact my own mood or, I hope, my own level of enjoyment.  I think that I'd find high energy company quite exhausting.

I believe that he expected to spend a small amount of time mooching around tourist stores,  half of each day sat in a couple of preferred bars and the remainder of time sat in the sun reading.

The bars are no longer here and the sun has been an infrequent visitor.   His current medication has impacted his enjoyment of food and drink and he doesn't enjoy visiting historic buildings or gardens to the same degree that I do.   Unlike me, he does like shopping and suggested that we visited a shopping area today.

We exited the bus and few stops early so that we could walk along the clifftop path and satisfy my need for movement and nature.  It was beautiful and, to a point, flat.  We walked past a lido which has lots of pools amongst the rocks and was rather empty on account of the weather.

Unfortunately there was a steep hill to get back to the road and the shopping centre which led to more grumbling.  We also passed the hotel we'd been offered as an alternative to where we are staying which is undergoing extensive building work presently. We definitely made the right decision to stay where we are as the alternate location would not suit MrRIU at all and he appears to have determined that he will not come or will not enjoy our planned (by him) trip to Porto later in the year as it will be too hilly. 

I had a 'dubai' icecream  late afternoon (pistachio and chocolate) and for dinner battered black scabbard with lime rice, banana and chilli mayo.  Unusual