I made tea, and eventually Irene got up and had her shower and prepared to leave. Ross is already sitting outside with his tea and his cigar, which he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get last night; he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enjoying the peace and quiet.
My landlord came by, probably to solve the mystery of the lost crocs. Irene had lost her green crocs. She had placed them yesterday on the front porch, intending to take them with her for walking in the sand and forgot them when we went out. When we came back from our touring around, they had disappeared. Why would anybody take size 5 Green crocs? That was the mystery. I thought maybe Lu\u00c3\u00ads or his mother had come by and placed them inside the other house, but no, they hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Lu\u00c3\u00ads was working down in the Algarve and his mother didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come up here yesterday, so the mystery has not been solved. I leave the doors wide-open when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m alone here; I have no issues, because I feel safe. Irene, I think was worried that there was some weirdo coming in here, but it is a mystery. A cat wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t carry crocs away and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no dogs loose around here.
By 10 o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122clock we decided to go out to breakfast. Originally I planned to take them down and get a croissant and a coffee in another caf\u00c3\u00a9 (Por Del Sol) that I really like but, I thought because it was Sunday, it might be closed. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t however , but by the time we were all ready, we had decided to have breakfast out. We went around to Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Rita, which you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard me talk about. Each of us had an omelette and Irene ordered custard tarts, similar to what she buys in the Portuguese area of Chinatown, Toronto, because the island of Macau in China was run by the Portuguese. She used to get the tarts there and she loves them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After breakfast, I took them up to my shop where I bought a fleece jacket and the lady had been so helpful to me. I wanted her to meet Ross and Irene. Our next move was back to the house to get their suitcases and all their stuff.
I threw sheets in the washing machine and after that, the towels. Ross loaded the car with their luggage. I hung the sheets to dry on the line and figured I would get the towels later when I get back from the bus station. I have new guests coming in on Tuesday, so I needed fresh clean sheets.
When the bus arrived at the station, it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take much time before the driver was starting the engine to go again. Ross told me, when in Lisbon, they arrived at the bus station just three minutes before the bus left, and they still hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t got their tickets; that was because Irene takes her time. Even though she worries about everything, Ross says she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what if\u00e2\u20ac\u009d kind of person, always concerned an\\bout what could happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today I made sure that they had plenty of time so they wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t miss the bus. The driver was in so much of a hurry that he did literally push them onto the bus to leave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For me it was sad seeing them go. I really enjoyed their company, even though I enjoyed my first weeks alone, touring around the country doing my research in photographs and getting to the country for my future visitors. I really enjoyed the short time they were with me. And, I am looking forward to my two friends from the US coming on Tuesday night. I just spoke to them in Crossville , Tennessee. They are getting in the car soon to drive to Chicago. Their flight leaves from Chicago Monday via London, UK, and then they transfer to a flight to Lisbon early Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m relaxing the rest of the day. The last few hours with visitors and the mystery of the green […]<\/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-2094","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\/2094","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=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a>
By the way, I think Irene finally accepted BC, the cat. He kept coming around so much. she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not really allergic she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just afraid! She realized how much BC likes me and is always following me so she just closed her bedroom door so that he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get in there. BC was happy because it felt like he had a family around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a>