How Was Your Week? 50 years and counting!

If we were having coffee, I’d tell you it has been a busy week or so. The highlight: we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on the 18th October followed by a trip to see our family in France more on that next week.

Mr. Piglet secretly planned a boat trip from Olhao to the Ria Formosa and visit a couple of the islands. Unfortunatley we discovered the timing of the excurison coincided with high tide so much of the Ria Formosa was covered in water. Not to worry it will give us an excuse to go again next year!

For some reason I don’t have any usuable photographs of the boat or islands other than the sea cucumber and seahorse both of which are residents in the waters of the Ria Formosa

Food on Friday: Sea Cucumbers – Could You Eat Them?

The next surprise a night at the The Pousada Convento de Tavira which dates back to the 16th centuary and is located in the historic centre of Tavira. Again, I don’t have any photographs to share as my plan to tour the hotel and local area the following morning never came to pass.

Once we had settled into our hotel room and changed for dinner, Mr. P then took me to a VERY expensive Michelin star listed restaurant. Sadly, the restaurant fell way short of our expectations, and a couple of hours after returning to the hotel, I became very ill –l probably food poisioning. The timeline fits with eating what appeared to have been a raw prawn we never queried.

Needless to say, breakfast in the beautiful hotel’s internal courtyard was off the agenda, as was a tour of the grounds and local area before moving on to lunch which included entertainment followed by a trip to the gardening show. -ho hum… on a positive note, I shed a few pounds.

Ending on another positive note, at least we both made it to seventy and fifty years married. 🙂

A couple of days later, we were off to France. More on that next week.