Life's a Stitch

Last night we stayed at “Al.Floral” Guest House in Aljezur. A lot of thought was put into the building’s theme, each room named for a wild flower. Ours was translated to lemon verbena with the accompanying tea provided.

My only issue with the room was it was described as having garden view. Sure, there was a strip of green space across the street, but between our window and the “park” was a busy, noisy road and a row of pull in parked cars. It did calm down at night, so sleeping was not a problem.

The four of us drove to our next stop at Carrapateira, about a half hour away. European rental cars are small and all our luggage and backpacks filled it, so we headed to our accommodation, Pensao das Dunas, to unload. 

Greg and I returned to Aljezur for the task of major grocery shopping as for the next six nights we have cooking facilities. The road is narrow and curvy and the locals are obviously used to it, ignoring speed limits and passing zones. We had to veer to the side of the road to avoid being hit head on by a car passing on a curve.

We made it to the grocery store in one piece. The shopping carts at Intermarche were huge. 

It was a good thing they were on four spinner wheels like luggage.

This morning my Fitbit had this message.

I succeeded with a cardio load of 2. Although it was a rest day, I still managed 10,000 steps. I guess that’s no comparison to yesterday’s 36,000.