A BIG thank you
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:23 am
I am now home and back at my work desk after two incredible weeks in CVO. For the last fifteen years I have visited Menorca in late May / early June. Being married to a teacher I have to utilise school holidays. For the first time I had to take my annual leave over Easter and to get a better chance of decent weather we ventured away from Menorca.
Boy are we glad we did!! The Alarve offers so much more than Menorca, don't get we wrong, we enjoyed our visits to Menorca and made many friends. But the beaches in and around CVO are infinitely better.
My post today is to thank everyone who replied to my many, often obscure questions prior to my visit. To have been able to call on the expertice of people like fmm, Bruce and especially Michael Crane, plus many more, was a great help. The CVO web page and forum was great.
It would appear we got the best of the recent weather. We saw rain just once on Monday 29.3.10, some low level cloud but generally sunshine. We visited beaches at Ferraguda, Marinha, Carvalho and more. My favourite was Benagil.
We also ate out several nights. Dining at O Gale, Ma Ja's, Ele & Ela, O Galeiria, A Marisqueira and another whose name escapes me.
My Favourite? Taking everything into consideration it has to be A Marisqueira. Fresh cooked food on the outside BBQ. Ele & Ela was very good but I thought expensive. There was three of us and we had more courses at A Marisqueira than we did at Ele & Ela but the bill at Ele & Ela was still 25% more expensive!!
Having said that, we ate at Restuarant Suese on the harbour at Ferragudo one lunch time. Wow, great food but 100 euros for lunch !?!?!?!
Thanks again everyone for all your help. This is not the last of Lamby and we WILL return.
Boy are we glad we did!! The Alarve offers so much more than Menorca, don't get we wrong, we enjoyed our visits to Menorca and made many friends. But the beaches in and around CVO are infinitely better.
My post today is to thank everyone who replied to my many, often obscure questions prior to my visit. To have been able to call on the expertice of people like fmm, Bruce and especially Michael Crane, plus many more, was a great help. The CVO web page and forum was great.
It would appear we got the best of the recent weather. We saw rain just once on Monday 29.3.10, some low level cloud but generally sunshine. We visited beaches at Ferraguda, Marinha, Carvalho and more. My favourite was Benagil.
We also ate out several nights. Dining at O Gale, Ma Ja's, Ele & Ela, O Galeiria, A Marisqueira and another whose name escapes me.
My Favourite? Taking everything into consideration it has to be A Marisqueira. Fresh cooked food on the outside BBQ. Ele & Ela was very good but I thought expensive. There was three of us and we had more courses at A Marisqueira than we did at Ele & Ela but the bill at Ele & Ela was still 25% more expensive!!
Having said that, we ate at Restuarant Suese on the harbour at Ferragudo one lunch time. Wow, great food but 100 euros for lunch !?!?!?!
Thanks again everyone for all your help. This is not the last of Lamby and we WILL return.
We went once a lot of years ago and went back a second time about 6 years ago, big mistake! We are very fond of the Algarve but we dont go to Carvoeiro every year, head east to Tavira area, its very nice over there.