Summer 2010 organised

VinhoTinto · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject: Summer 2010 organised

Pleased to report that next Summer's jaunt is planned and booked.
Flights with Easyjet went on sale on 5th November and have been booked, together with accommodation, for eighteen nights commencing Sept 4th.
We still have ten nights organised for April, but it's nice to know that the main holiday in September is now a certainty rather than a dream.

marinamad · Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject:

Likewise!

Just booked with flyglobespan.com, 30 May to 13 June, so that's the flights sorted.

Accommodation-wise:
In a change from our usual Marina Club, we have our eye on an apartment right on the marina front.
It's in one of the original blocks, and we've always fancied it - keep walking past Lazyjacks, past Do Cais to the first right hand corner, and it's the oldish block on your right, balcnies looking north-ish, so get the sun at G&T time in the evenings (if we can drag ourselves away from South Bar's happy hour before it sets!). We haven't committed yet, so if anyone has any experience of this block, now's a great time to mention it - muito obrigado.

VinhoTinto looks like we'll miss you again this year - we must hook up at some time and bore each other to death with Great Lagosian Adventures over a vinho tinto or two.

VinhoTinto · Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject:

I'm beginning to get the feeling that you're avoiding me on purpose, Marinamad. Laughing

We're over from 13th-23rd April and again on the 4th September for eighteen nights. When do you book yours? - slap bang in between the two !!
A snippet of information that might be of interest to you as I know you visit O Galeao from time to time:
Remember the tall slim waitress with the horn-rimmed specs who virtually ran the place?-well word has it that she's leaving in November; how the place will run without her I can't imagine - the girl had a computer for a brain!! It'll be interesting to see how they cope!

marinamad · Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject:

As long as their great Portuguese speciality, beef stroganoff, stays up to scratch I think I can put up with a slight drop in organisation/service.

It is amazing how well both kitchen and front of house operate - poetry in motion. Lots of very satisfied bums on seats.

janr1 · Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:26 pm Post subject: HOLDAY 2010

BOOKED IN AUGUST FOR JULY, MONARCH AIR YET AGAIN, JUST CAR HIRE TO SORT OUT,STAYING AT
DON MANUEL MARINA COMPLEX

marinamad · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:51 pm Post subject:

Due to the somewhat inconvenient extinction of flyglobespan.com, and with it direct flights from Aberdeen to Faro, we have rebooked on easyJet from Glasgow. What a pain in the jacksie!
The good news? It's a day earlier, so not so long to wait.

oystercatcher · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:14 am Post subject:

Hi - not so much a reply but I haven't looked in for a while and these forums (fora?) are looking lonely. I've been on travels elsewhere since last October. I should have been coming to Lagos today - from Birmingham - so aren't now - but finally was allowed to rebook and hopefully coming on Friday - just for a few days, and am looking forward to seeing the place.

Icelandic volcanos permitting I am coming for a long stay in May,June and am thinking of taking a Portuguese course with the school in the centre of town - Centro de Línguas de Lagos - has anyone done a course with them? heard anything about them? Fancy a 5 week course? It's Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday mornings - I don't think I could cope with anything more intensive.

marinamad · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:28 pm Post subject:

I can't vouch for the language school, but it sounds like a great way to spend 5 weeks.