Saturday was another lovely sunny day, we filled up with water then made our way to the campsite to use the launderette. We left the washing and then went to the market and supermarket. After lunch we drove out to a nearby port before returning to collect our nice clean washing.
Sunday was the warmest day we’ve had since Christmas, we went for a bike ride down to the harbour and then over to the other side of the estuary. The main road was luckily nice a
nd wide and very quiet but quite hilly! We then turned off onto a country road down to the coast and continued cycling over a boarded walkway over the sand dunes. We stopped at lunchtime for a picnic in the sand dunes (picture to the right shows the view from our picnic spot) overlooking the estuary and Vila Nova de Milfontes. On returning
to the motorhome we had a couple of cups of tea and recovered from our cycle ride, according to the sat nav we had cycled just over 11 miles! So we think we’ll be saddlesore tomorrow… Mark was looking a bit pink after being out in
the midday sun! Inside the motorhome it was 30 degrees C, opening the sky lights soon cooled it down. Later in the afternoon we went on a short bike ride up to the lighthouse, chained up the bikes and went for a walk along the beach and into the sand dunes. As always, lovely views whichever way we looked. Picture to the right shows the view from the motorhome at sunset.
By Monday we decided to move on from Vila Nova de Milfontes, we drove about 20 minutes down the coast to Almograve and had an early lunch before starting off on a wa
lk. We’d picked up a route map a couple of days earlier from the tourist office in Milfontes for a 5 mile walk. Although it wasn’t a very long walk, it was quite hard going as the majority of it was over sand dunes and beaches. We then drove onto Zambojeira do Mar, a small town on the coast for the night.
It rained heavily in the night and was very windy too! By mid morning it calmed down and it turned into quite a nice day, cloudier than recently but nice and mild. We left Zambojeira do Mar and headed down to the Algarve stopping for shopping en route finally stopping at Vila do Bispo (mostly because it’s got free wi-fi in the town centre!!) The wi-fi is a bit sporadic though, so apologies if I don't reply to all emails!
Sunday was the warmest day we’ve had since Christmas, we went for a bike ride down to the harbour and then over to the other side of the estuary. The main road was luckily nice a
nd wide and very quiet but quite hilly! We then turned off onto a country road down to the coast and continued cycling over a boarded walkway over the sand dunes. We stopped at lunchtime for a picnic in the sand dunes (picture to the right shows the view from our picnic spot) overlooking the estuary and Vila Nova de Milfontes. On returning 
to the motorhome we had a couple of cups of tea and recovered from our cycle ride, according to the sat nav we had cycled just over 11 miles! So we think we’ll be saddlesore tomorrow… Mark was looking a bit pink after being out in 
the midday sun! Inside the motorhome it was 30 degrees C, opening the sky lights soon cooled it down. Later in the afternoon we went on a short bike ride up to the lighthouse, chained up the bikes and went for a walk along the beach and into the sand dunes. As always, lovely views whichever way we looked. Picture to the right shows the view from the motorhome at sunset.
By Monday we decided to move on from Vila Nova de Milfontes, we drove about 20 minutes down the coast to Almograve and had an early lunch before starting off on a wa
lk. We’d picked up a route map a couple of days earlier from the tourist office in Milfontes for a 5 mile walk. Although it wasn’t a very long walk, it was quite hard going as the majority of it was over sand dunes and beaches. We then drove onto Zambojeira do Mar, a small town on the coast for the night.
It rained heavily in the night and was very windy too! By mid morning it calmed down and it turned into quite a nice day, cloudier than recently but nice and mild. We left Zambojeira do Mar and headed down to the Algarve stopping for shopping en route finally stopping at Vila do Bispo (mostly because it’s got free wi-fi in the town centre!!) The wi-fi is a bit sporadic though, so apologies if I don't reply to all emails!
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