Here we were thinking we had skipped spring!
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| Sunday lunchtime, downtown Albufeira |
Last Sunday it was so hot that I was attracted to all the summer dresses on sale along these downtown Albufeira streets. I also had a long list of must-do tasks in the garden, which were so urgent I didn't go to the beach.
On Thursday it was a public holiday here and suddenly I had the urge to have an ice-cream and coffee by the sea. It was so hot I decided to stay inside the beach café where it was cooler than on the café's veranda. Lots of people were sunbathing or playing in the calm blue sea.
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| Enjoying the view |
When it was announced that temperatures would be dropping by ten degrees Celcius, I thought "nah, it'll never happen here in the Algarve"!
Well, I was wrong. Yesterday afternoon, there we were in Lagos, wearing windbreakers and scarves and shivering in a relentless, freezing wind.
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| Lagos, Algarve (Portimao in the distance) |
The cold was just bearable in the square in front of the Santa Maria Church, where there were loads of stalls to visit and entertainers on a small stage.
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| Festival dos Descobrimentos - lots to see, eat, drink, buy... |
Today it is just as cold. When we went to the Lagoa car boot sale (which I highly recommend, on the 4th Sunday of every month), I even put on my woolly hat!
Gardening tasks have been put on hold. Even my dogs don't want to be outside. It feels like winter again. What a difference a week makes!
What a difference indeed! Here in Perth we are about 1 month away from the start of winter and having temperatures in the upper 20's C, which are apparently 7 to 10 degrees above the average for April. So still wearing short sleeves and enjoying the wonderful sunshine.
ReplyDeleteIt really looks beautiful there. Weird, how it suddenly went cold again, although I'd definitely prefer that. I don't do too well in extreme heat.
ReplyDeletewell cold or not it looks amazingly beautiful
ReplyDeleteIt looks very beautiful there. We had quite a weather change here too over the last couple of days. It was so warm here on Thursday & Friday, we needed to turn on the air conditioner (28 degrees C), then yesterday the temperature dropped to about 6 degrees C & today it's snowing & 1 degree C. I hope Thursday & Friday weren't our entire summer :)
ReplyDeleteYes the weather has been a little up and down recently in Portugal. I cannot wait for summer to start, it feels like this winter has dragged on forever!
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