Day 21 - Back to the Beach

We both had a really decent night’s sleep in our very nice air conditioned bedroom. We were ready for the beach.

We stopped at a small cafe for coffee & Jackie chose a sausage sandwich to share. It was weird if not fairly horrible - a frankfurter in a baguette with a lettuce leaf, a tomato slice, then crammed with tiny chipsticks all swimming in ketchup & mustard mayonnaise. Not again.

We walked to a beach called Foz do Rio Mira em Odemira, which on the face of it was perfect - a small sandy cove sheltered from the breeze and with a roped off swimming area. Unfortunately it was busy & full of either old people or families. I wasn’t comfortable, but strangely the beach started to empty from about 11.30am onwards.

During the morning we had identified a beach shack on Praia do Farol, the beach around the corner. Around 1pm we visited it for a beer & discovered it was a restaurant with white table cloths for dinner. Not what we were looking for, so we had to head back towards town to find something more suitable for just a couple of beers.

We spent the afternoon on Praia do Faro as the tide went dramatically back out revealing sandbanks all over the estuary.

That evening we had a hearty meal of burger and pork with fries with beer & decided we would try to extend our stay for another 4 days.

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