In the morning the lady at the shop seemed very surprised to see us back quite so soon to return all of the empty bottles and exchange them for a new supply of full ones. We were impressed as well that she had clearly been thinking ahead and with an eye to increased sales there were more bread rolls today and she invited us to buy as many as we liked.
Posted in Europe, History, Portugal, Travel
Tagged Albufiera, Alcantarilha, Algarve, Armação de Pera, São João, Villa Estrella
Actually we didn’t need a great deal, the two main items on our shopping list were beer and bread, in that order! We found the beer and quickly calculated how much we would need for three days and set about assembling the purchase at the counter. The shop keeper seemed a bit agitated by this but all she was trying to make us understand was that she would rather like the bottles back when we had finished with them because there was a deposit on them.
Posted in Europe, Portugal, Spain, Travel
Tagged Algarve, Anthony Hawley, Armação de Pera, Ford Escort, Mercado Braz A Taverna, Port Wine, Portugal, Richard petcher, Tony Dennis, Villa Estrella
In the 1980’s my brother Richard worked in a car sales garage in Rugby for a man called Gordon Pitcher who owned a villa on the Algarve in Portugal that he used to rent out for holiday lets and, as the property was in rather a remote location, included in the deal was the use of a car for getting about. Gordon was a businessman who didn’t like unnecessary expenditure so as the car was UK registered he had to remove it from Portugal by a certain time each year so that he didn’t have to pay local vehicle tax and insurance.
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Tagged Alcantarilha, Algarve, Faro, Ford Escort, Villa Estrella
Have Bag, Will Travel 