Vendanges, Voyages, et Une Belle Vie: Portugal

Left Sevilla on the early side to have time to explore the coastline on our way to Portugal. According to google, the trip would take us about two hours; however, our gps (Nancy) felt differently. She had a rigorous driving regime set, getting us there in only one hour! We constantly cursed her and kept making fun of her for wanting us to travel about 200kph. But she got the last laugh... As later learned, Portugal is one hour behind Spain (and the rest of Europe).

Since then we had four hours to kill before meeting our next host at the apartment, we ventured down a dirt road, which opened up to a beautiful cove on the sea. We found a perfect lunch spot where we shared turkey sandwiches with avocado, tangerines, yogurt and half a bottle of Chapoutier.

We also spotted another panther roaming the cove.

Where is he?

After a few hours of soaking in the sun, we headed towards Portimão and met our host (again through AirBnB) who showed us the apartment. It's a very modern, spacious one bedroom with all the amenities we needed... Including a grill for Martin!

After settling, we went grocery shopping getting the essentials for the ultimate grilling session (plus a 5kg bag of charcoal). The rest of the evening was spent tending to the fire (ok just Martin... While Kate watched) and enjoying an awesome dinner!

Martin also claimed that the fire wasn't hot enough, so he resolved that by adding plenty more charcoal. Shortly after, not only could he not put his hands near the flames, the everything was quickly done... And charred... No kidding... It was delicious.