away again...

So, we're off to Dublin in 40 minutes or so, which gives me a chance to update this a little.  The Algarve was incredible.  It was so much better than I expected that I was just blown away by the whole thing.  I thought it was going be full of Tourists and cheesy cafes selling fish and chips.  It was, but only at the coast, which meant inland was left relatively unspoiled.  Here's a preview of the villa where we were staying...

It was in its own little valley, with a farm house a couple of hundred meters to the left of where you're looking now.  The villa was bigger inside than it looks from this perspective.  To the right of the picture is a barbeque, and there's another one behind the house too.  We did a LOT of cooking in these areas I can tell you.  The food there is really nice; typically we ate fish and salad when at home which rocks.  Drank a lot of beer and port too ;-)
At the bottom of the wall above you can see little holes in the concrete at ground level.  They are drainage holes, but a couple of times we saw small gecko lizards going through them to the area behind.  They would come down the steps and take a look at the pool area.  Anna saw a bigger one inside the house too.  On the roof you can see a chimney structure at the back; it was there that the pizza oven was located and I think the gecko came in through that chimney.
So we did the usual tourist things too - went to all the places we had picked out of the guide books as places to see.  Possibly the most memorable was indeed the farthest westerly point of land in Europe.  OK, have to head to the airport now... more as soon as we get back...