• Faro to Carvoeiro, can anyone beat this?

Posted: **Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:20 pm**

My Aunt, daughter and friend hired a car from Faro last week and even after telling them to print off the pictured instructions and giving them precise location maps for the villa managed to take 3 and a quarter hours to get there. They say they didn't enter Spain either.

Posted: **Wed Apr 21, 2004 7:26 pm**

What can I say. Three women drivers (one behind the wheel and two on the back seat). I expect they had a good old chat though, and hardly noticed the other cars on the road. I bet it wouldn't have taken that long to find Algarve Shopping !

Posted: **Wed Apr 21, 2004 8:53 pm**

Thats some detour Mike!

Ours wasnt quite so long....just under 2 hours I think..long enough!
My friend picked me up from Faro okay...but although shes resident near CVO..shes not familiar with drive from airport..and...yep we strayed and was lost on some back road...we then got 'Portuguese' directions....and almost ended on that road to 'Espanha'!
I walked miles round CVO..Lagoa....Lisbon...think I could well qualify for next marathon

How much is it..to hire one of your bikes Bob?

Posted: **Wed Apr 21, 2004 9:47 pm**

…….reminds me of when I was little, and my aunt along with other female members of the family went missing for hours, and my uncle said they were having a chin-wag……..and I often wonder what he meant……

Posted: **Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:19 pm**

Monday night it took me two and a half hours to get from the the back of lisbon airport to the entrance to it and no i wasn,t driving the 190 merc,jaysus never again,i ended up parking the hire car in the airport car park and getting a taxi to an hotel,sorry steen,i,ll settle up for the over nite parking when i,m out again........why don,t they put a sign over their hotels....the hures.

Posted: **Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:31 pm**

I still have the one page directions as a PDF file if anyone wants one. Just email me and I'll send you a copy.

Posted: **Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:42 pm**

Hahaha......3 hrs and 15 min's ? lol. Thta's how long it takes to fly from Holland to Faro.........
Well @ least Portugal is really nice when it come sto sight seeing.....I hope though they didn't traven in the dark.

The drive takes me about 55 mins usually.

Posted: **Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:43 pm**

Long time ago, I also had a car like that !!

Posted: **Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:38 pm**

Sorry but I've done similar

Not quite so bad but from about 7 trips to CVO have only taken the right directions about twice. Just always seem to go wrong somehow.

Posted: **Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:58 am**

mac, you need my one-page directions!

Posted: **Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:50 pm**

What's worse though, I have printed off the 4 page directions. Last time used them and even though I thought I was wrong, I was on the right road. Will have a look at the one page directions.

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:03 pm**

If anyone going for Christmas wants a copy of my one-page PDF (161 kb) directions from Faro to the village, please email me on faropdf@backgammon-biba.co.uk and I'll send you a copy.

Michael

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:21 pm**

These directions only work at Christmas then Michael?

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:23 pm**

Yes!

Posted: **Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:12 pm**

This is an endorsement for Michael's one page direction sheet which he sent me this morning. It beats having to print and carry four pages. If now Michael, you can get the directions onto a business card, it would be fantastic.