Back in cold old England following our short break in Santa Luzia I have to sadly report that we took the English weather with us.
Throughout our stay we were plagued by cloud, wind and the occasional downpour. Whilst the sun shone briefly during the Sunday of our visit the rest of the time was unseasonably chilly and definitely unpredictable.
The locals informed us that just like the rest of Europe the Algarve has suffered an unusually long and severe (by Portuguese standards anyway) winter.
The warmth however of the welcome extended by our Portuguese friends and acquaintances was undiminished and it felt wonderful to be "home".
The new Porta de Pesca is finished and operational and foreign voices were much in evidence along the promenade and in the eating and drinking establishments of the village.
I know I've said this many times before but when we first started to visit Santa Luzia you rarely met an English person in the village even at the height of the tourist season yet on the Monday prior to our departure we called at Cafe Alentejano for a coffee and every one of the dozen or so customers enjoying the brief appearance of the sun on it's outside terrace was English.
I will be posting pictures of the completed harbour installation in the next few days as time permits.
In an earlier post I mentioned that a local contact had informed me that there was talk of the importation of tons of sand to create a small artificial beach in front of the new harbour.
Well the work on the Port, as I said earlier, is complete and there is no sign of a beach, but, roughly in the center of the area concerned there is a surface water drainage outlet and as the picture below shows it has been enclosed in a concrete tunnel to extend it some forty meters into the estuary.
Now why would they do that if not to place something on top of it?
