Wanda to the Rescue

I was up early this morning and it had rained heavy through the night.
It was windy first thing and very cloudy and by 9:30am it was raining again.
I’d already put my cycling gear on ready to re-ride the same trip u had taken to Silves to look for the rear light I had lost but I had to wait until 1pm for the rain to stop so I could finally head out.
Within 5km I was already regretting the decision to go out as my wheels were gummed up with mud and I was covered from head to toe in mud.
I rode unbelievably slow to recover from the day out at Foia and the journey took 2 1/2 hours. That’s 1 hour longer than my previous 2 rides and I never did find the light.
After dinner we settled in to watch a couple of hours of Netflix before Ellie’s brother arrived at 9:30 but at 7pm the heavens opened and unleashed the storm from hell.
Ellie looked on flight tracker at 8pm and realised that her brothers flight would be delayed by 30 minutes and we could see the fork lightning hitting things at Faro. Then the flight tracker said the delay was an hour and we watched as the plan did 2 complete circles of Faro and then headed off towards Spain.
It was now 10pm and at 10:30pm we finally got a message from Ellie’s brother to say they had, had to land in Seville and they were going to bus them to Faro but the coach would an hour and then it would be a further 2 hours until they got to Faro.
We agreed to pick them up when they arrived so we settled in for the long haul and decided to get an hours sleep before getting dressed and heading to the airport in Wanda.
It was helling it down outside as we left and the storm was still raging as we took the 22 mile journey into Faro airport. Something I would never do during the day.
We managed to hold a steady speed of 50mph most of the way and the wind and rain was terrible. We were lucky that the motorway was clear of water as it was just running off.
We got to the airport at 1:15am and picked up Ellie’s brother, his wife and 2 kids and fortunately the storm was moving away and it was a far nicer journey back to the villa.
We arrived back at the house for 2:30am and then it was straight to bed. Everyone was tired.Baca selengkapnya