Portimao, Portugal 2012
Progress continues on updating WJ3's 2008-2010 blog; only photos need to be replaced now (so they don't disappear into the ether when we shut down Typepad!) but that could be a job for Big Dell at home. In the meantime, we've had fun reminiscing...
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| Those google eyes in my dinner are following me! |
You may well
be aware that the Cap’n celebrated a birthday recently. We made for floating restaurant, the Rivole and ordered a local lunch fit for
an old salt. Run by a husband and wife
team, we were made to feel welcome and encouraged to take lunch in typical
Portuguese fashion. After a refreshing
Sagres beer, we munched our way through large, grilled prawns, lightly seasoned
to take advantage of their freshness.
Our congenial host recommended monkfish to follow; a thick rice and fish
casserole with lashings of olive oil, fresh coriander and garlic. We washed it down with local wine, a crisp,
dry white and reflected on our good fortune to have celebrated his last 5
birthdays in such exotic locations.
Just so that
you can be envious too, remember these….
2008:
Anything goes in Phillipsburg, Sint
Maartin (Caribbean) with BW (& Sweet Michael on the Segway’s).
2009: Vero Beach (Florida) with champers on
board, then catching up with Jim and Tammy later. More officially (for the big 60 & with
BW) further up the ICW at Spouters Inn, Beaufort
NC.
2010: A
night out whilst “on tour” at the Kings Arms in Colonial Williamsburg, (Virginia).
Followed by some Alaskan crab legs on WJ3 back in Deltaville.
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| Apres Tiki Bar at the hospitable Richmond County Yacht Club |
2011: Dinner
at the Tiki Bar, a local hotspot, in Great
Kills Harbour (New York) with BW.
Earlier we’d had Brimmers and friends aboard. Max, who had been travelling through Canada
and the US, finally caught up with us too!
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| Boys at large in NYC |
2102: On the
Rivole, floating on the Arade in Portimao
(Portugal) followed by champers on board Emma
Laura (Roger, Sue and Tony).
Now that is spoilt! GS though,
feels a white Christmas must be coming up for her one year very soon.
