Festival time

Seems like this year has simply flown by as it is already festival time in Santa Luzia again.

I have diligently searched the web for details of this years festival and have drawn a complete blank. This is something I will definitely have to put right and whilst it is now too late to publicise this years festival you can be sure I will post plenty of info on next years bash.

The festival takes place usually on the second weekend in August starting on the Friday evening and ending on the Monday.
The full length of the promenade is lined with stalls selling local crafts and all manner of merchandise and a large stage is erected at the western end of the village for the nightly outdoor entertainment.
We will be arriving in Santa Luzia on the 6th of August and staying for 8 days so as well as enjoying the festival I will have plenty of time to check out any progress on the new harbour and any other developments in the village.

Traditionally the festival attracts thousands of Portuguese visitors to the village but this year we are confidently expecting many more foreign visitors.
When we first discovered Santa Luzia it was a closely guarded Portuguese secret, a search engine enquiry "Santa Luzia" would bring up nothing on this village. Try it now (go on there is a search box on this page) and you get a plethora of sites offering holiday accommodation and, hopefully pretty high in the ranking, this blog.

If you want to catch the festival this year it commences on 8th of August and flights are still plentiful and if you search hard enough reasonably cheap. By booking our outward flight with Jet2.com and our return with Thomas Cook we have achieved it for just £136 each........not bad for the height of the season.

I just have to say though that the day the law is changed so that airlines have to simply tell you the price and not add on all those not so little surprises at each stage of the booking process can not come too soon. You waste hours looking at £29.99 flights that turn out to be £129.99.

I run a pub and if I advertised beer for sale at £1-00 a pint then when you got to the till added 50p for getting it in a glass 50p for sitting on a chair 50p for gas and electric and just for good measure 10p for actually taking your payment I would get the book (and probably the beer) thrown at me.