The waves are huge today. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe the size and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bring my camera with me so you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re seeing iPhone photos. I just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe the size and the sound of them crashing against the rocks.\u00c2\u00a0
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a totally different look when the sky is overcast with clouds than when the sun is out; the temperature is still around 13 or 14\u00c2\u00b0, but the wind is up slightly.
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI am in Cafe Rita near the cliffs in town, drinking coffee & having a shrimp thingy! It looks like a small Jamaican patty , not spicy.\u00c2\u00a0
Now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s raining. The grocery store closed as I arrived so I will wait the two hours wandering around. Passing another caf\u00c3\u00a9 I stopped in. Coffee & a croissant, why not? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really going downhill!\u00f0\u0178\u00a4\u00aa<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/a><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThis appears to be the local hangout, P\u00c3\u00b4r Do Sol! A lot of customers. The covered patio was full so I am inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A pair of storks just flew overhead, their flight pattern much different than our herons at home and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a young white stork that cruises around in the field in front of the house. He just flew in the same direction as the older ones. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know much about storks, but I know they have a lot of shelf set ups so that the storks can make their nests- they really do encourage them to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I remember walking with Sean in Spain and every village we passed with a Church had huge stork nests on the steeple or somewhere near the roof. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much colder here today. I came down to town at noon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award-of-merit","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Next stop – soup & a small beer at Estrela Do Mar with Mr Bean!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
To update you on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153my\u00e2\u20ac\u009dcat, he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come back the very next day as the song says. I asked Lu\u00c3\u00ads today, surprised that he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come around, and he said he belongs to the neighbour. I guess it was just a one night stand with me, typical fickle male. And after I bought him food, the nerve of him.
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting to sit out in the front porch later in the day. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now 4:30 PM. The sky is cloudy. The sun is out finally feels a little warmer.Not that the temperature is actually changed but the wind has lessened and with the sun out it feels warmer – temperatures actually stay the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know anything about storks or birds like that- they might be the ibis. I checked on Wikipedia, and I might be mistaken about what I thought they were. All you bird experts out there, you can tell me the right information about the pair. The ones flew over my head while sitting on the porch were greyish while the one that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the field there now is white; it looks younger and smaller .\u00c2\u00a0
Time to go in and build a fire. The temperature is dropping again. Brrrrhrr!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a>