A few photos from our trip to portugal. lovely weather and good beaches. and tasty fish.

The beach east of our hotel, where the fishing boats and vollball courts were.

strollng back after a tasty meal of fish

The view from Silves; halfway up the hill towards the castle.

At the castle, feeling the heat

The famous chapel – it’s wall being entirly made of human bones. Nice.

a smaller, quieter beach we discovered, west of Amecao de pera

me, posing. you’ll notice that my trunks are of a suitable length so as to cover the knee.

the view from the old village part of the town

A few photos from yesterday’s excitement. I’ve put the rest on blog.livster.net/brockbank-gibbs/

Walking in the rain.

The happy couple with their witnesses

A confetti explosion!

Finally the rain stops

The couple complete with brothers

Played in the last game of the season yesterday, resulting in a stonking 14-0 win. I, needless to say, didn’t score any goals (I was in defence). The opposition were pretty shocking and i think are bottom of the league.

And so the debate on the charms of Garkarn(a) rolls on. Is it a “helhole full of simpering, aging hippies” or a “tropical beach paradise”? Jul will have to cast the deciding vote if he ventures that way on his travels.

Not much happening here at the homestead. the chickens lay about 4/5 eggs a day. sometimes one of the pesky speckled ones escapes, but usually leaps back in after a short chase.

Google tells me that those two names seem to be used more or less interchangably for the town called Gorkan, the place with Ohm beach. At least, according to a couple of maps I looked at. There is a place call Gokarna, but it’s in north-east india, rather close to Bangladesh…

Pliskin and I popped down to the witterings yesterday after various forcasts promised great waves, but there was nothing higher than a couple of inches… most dispointing! I think it was something to do with the moon.

What is chillum?