Algarve Beach Life Diaries

Just why WOULD I like to live in the Algarve?

Well, just looking out the window today gives me reason enough...

It's bucketing down in Bournemouth! And seems to have been doing just that for weeks.

I looked back through the digital pics we took on our late August vacation this year, and almost sobbed. Our biggest problem back then was how to get enough sun-blocker onto our ever-browner skins!

So, that's one big plus about having a holiday site - you are reminded often of nice things in pleasanter climes. And it helps your resolve to book another holiday soon.

My ISP's servers seem to have been down for the last two days, so I haven't been able to add to this blog, or to upload my latest e-zine, or add any new pages.

I hope they answer my enquiry about lack of service in less than the 4 weeks (!) it took them last time.

My page about Algarve camping is now complete and ready to upload. It's an increasingly popular way to see the Algarve, but with bargain packages like the one that took us to lovely Albufeira, I can't see me being tempted...

On the one hand, a tent or caravan... on the other, an air-con apartment with access to saltwater pools and gymnasium, only 400 metres from the beach. Now let me see....

Perhaps I'm just decadent, but the apartment seems that tad more alluring.

Of course, if we had our own Algarve property, there'd be no choices to bother me. I wonder should I add it to my Christmas list? Please, Santa...

I'm freezing up here in my bedroom, but too lazy to go downstairs and switch on the heating.

If I get any lazier, I might drift off into a coma...

I've been reading up on how blogs can help with links to your website, but if I'm honest, I don't understand it. I can see how, if you have a link to your blog from your website, it'll get read more often, but other than that?

Anyway, I submitted to a few blog directories earlier today. Some of them want a link back from your blog, but I was happy to oblige (no skin off my nose). So that's why those little icons have appeared in my links section.

Still haven't finished my last page to upload to Algarve Beach Life this month, so haven't been able to publish the e-zine yet.

How did I start this post off? Oh, yeah. I'm cold and lazy...

No changes there, then.

So, it's stopped raining and the sun is out...

I've had lunch out with my friend Nikki, who visited today (so my jaw is aching from talking and chewing food).

I might even have fixed part of the problem with my PC, so that it won't crash so often (fingers crossed) and I can use Outlook Express for the first time in about 10 days. (So I've just downloaded about 100 messages - what a backlog!)

None of which is helping me to write another page about the Algarve and my vacations there, before I publish the next edition of my e-zine.

Later on, I'm off to see a chiropractor and have some kinks taken out of my skeleton. With any luck I'll get some decent sleep tonight and might even finish off this webpage...

Who says I'm not an optimist?

It's raining again! And I was going to cycle into town for the exercise.

The weather in Bournemouth has been the pits since we got back from the Algarve last month.

And the clincher was: the fortnight we were away from home was the best summer weather Bournemouth had seen.. Bummer!

I must get my e-zine written so I can publish it within the next few days.

Work, work, work...

And this bloody weather!

There; now I feel better.