Saturday, 12th/Sunday, 13th September 2009 – Portimao, Days 3 and 4 Saturday morning dawned slightly cloudy but it soon cleared and we headed out to the circuit for qualifying. This time we left Bogusia at the hotel, and Natasha/Doris switched off, which meant that instead of taking an hour to reach the track it only…
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Travel 2009 – Portimao, Days 1 and 2
Thursday, 10th/Friday, 11th September 2009 – Portimao, Days 1 and 2 We were quite excited about the prospect of going to the new race track, the Autodromo Algarve International after hearing many a driver rave about it. Anyway, with that in mind, we set off for Birmingham Airport and a flight to Faro late on…
Travel 2007 – Lisbon, Days 3 and 4
Sunday, 21st/Monday, 22nd October 2007 – Lisbon, Days 3 and 4 Sunday morning was just as sunny and we duly set off for the suburb of Santa Maria de Belém (known as Belém), to take a look at a variety of things. The day’s entertainment started quite early when about 300 people all tried to…
Travel 2007 – Lisbon, Day 2
Saturday, 20th October 2007 – Lisbon, Day 2 Saturday we had a late-ish breakfast then headed for the Praça do Comercio where we discovered that the princely sum of 17€ each we could play with the historic tourist tram, a splendid electric tram of some early vintage, which would take us for an hour and…
Travel 2007 – Lisbon, Day 1
Friday, 19th October 2007 – Lisbon, Day 1 Three facts stick in the mind after our visit to Lisbon: There are no flat surfaces in Lisbon – it’s always up or down. All statues of great navigators have a seagull permanently attached to their heads. It may be symbolic… It’s bad news when the bottom…
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