Hi everyone well for those perhaps not in the know with august fast approaching its festa time again, when for the whole of portugal that means party on night after night in pretty much every village.
It,s a time when many lisbonites come back home for their hols to see their families and immerse themselves wholeheartedly in endless nights of celebration.
we kick our village activities off this week with the opening of bar tropical our local cocktail bar opening for more or less around the clock followed by the allnite dance party in conquieros complete with international dj,s and travellers from all over europe, which incidentally just this week i have seen people at our river beach and bar at froia, from france, switzerland,sweden,italy,germany, and brits who i have,nt met before.
The hardest part now is adjusting to setting off out when we would normally be coming back in!!!!.
I think it,s really nice when everyone in their villages arranges their festas to follow on one after another so you get chance to visit all of them, meet new people and make new friends.
With the long hot summer now approaching its peak, unfortunately we are now getting the usual forest fires of which we had one on monday which took all day to get under control with the water planes continually flying over for almost ten hours, and huge black smoke plumes coming into the garden not a nice thing to see quite frightening really if i,m being honest.
This was immediately followed by power cuts probably due to electric cables getting burnt.
With the temperatures reaching silly highs work has been slow progress,the new bathroom is currently underway but it is probably down to about four hours work per day as the heat does take it out of you.
P.s i will post some pics over the coming weeks of the old/new bathroom and of course the festas which should be great fun again i hope!!!.
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