Albufeira - Arrival

Around 8pm we finally arrived in Albufeira, did some grocery shopping in Intermarché (they have the French chain here). We bought our groceries for the next 4 days of breakfast (water, yoghurt, fruits, nuts, bread, eggs) and lunch (turkey, ham, salad, apple, nuts and balsamico vinegar). The prices were much higher here than in Spain (Mercadona) I noticed. However €75 for 4 days with 2 people and 2 meals it still not that much. We saved our money for cocktails and dinner in the evening ! Off to bed now in our airbnb in the area of Sesmarias (street was called R. Dos Corais). It was a decent 1st etage apartment with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, spacious kitchen and a nice terrace South sided so we always had sun! Perfect for us. We paid €35 per person per night, so very decent. It had a shared swimming pool that was very big and hygienic.

In the evening we had dinner in the lovely restaurant closeby called “O Marinheiro”. It looked like the local version of the small yacht haven restaurant, so it had its charmes. We went for salmon and Portuguese cod, along with delicious sparkling white sangria. Delicious ! We discovered here that the drink muscatel (similar to porto? isn’t the same as muscato (sparking wine, aka moscato d’asti). So we had a muscatel as apero, which should actually be drunk for dessert. Luckily we still had our sangria afterwards. “Only” total bill around €35 per person, so we will definitely come back here !Read more