Saturday 28th April 2018
Today, in glorious sunshine, we packed up and prepared to tow to Camping Turiscampo, near Lagos, Portugal. We travelled almost all the way on the A22 motorway. I had setup a toll account online as Portugal toll roads are all now electronic with no one to take payment or pay by credit/debit card. As we had only 160km to go today we towed at a slower speed than normal to take in the sights of a new, to us, country and save a bit of fuel.
Towing Kilometres – Today: 155 Cumulative: 12,486
This campsite had been recommended to us by Barbara & Tony many weeks previously, and is where we had arranged to meet up with Paul, Ros, and the kids. They had booked a bungalow on site for the week. We arrived early afternoon and, after a small scare when they couldn’t find our booking, we were allocated pitch 919 high up on the terraced site near to where Pauls’ bungalow was located.
Everything about the place is excellent and spotlessly clean. There is a pool, gym, bar/restaurant, pizzeria, supermarket, spa. The shower/toilet blocks are immaculate with even dedicated facilities for the children.
An hour or so after we had set up and had a wander around, we were swiftly reminded why we had been avoiding Portugal for the last couple of months 🙂
Fortunately the rain only lasted an hour or so and a pleasant evening was spent rehydrating with tonic water and ice with the odd gin tipped in 🙂
Tomorrow we will drive over to Faro airport to meet the family, can’t wait 🙂