Starting on Thursday we got up at 3-15; except for Tom who didn’t really bother going to bed! Journey to Manchester airport went ok but the experience wasn’t brilliant. Tom and mum both got frisked at security and they treated Faye like an arch criminal because she had all her diabetes tackle and also forgot to take some liquids out of her bag. The flight went ok apart from the plane was full of hen/stag do’s and golfers who are always a pain. How they could all be sozzled at 8 o’clock in the morning is amazing. Felicity was entertaining and was passed around the whole party. Others found her cute apart, possibly from the woman sat in front whose seat she kept kicking and hair she kept playing with!
We got matching cars, Renault Clio estates that you don’t see in UK. One black and one dark grey. The villa is fabulous and very rambling; there are passages and balcony terraces hidden all over! It has large grounds with trees and grass and a lovely pool with lots of inflatables to play with. Daisy immediately took up residence in the pool and everyone bar mum went in. Tom S did a barbecue for tea and we watched a Mr Bean dvd after as we couldn’t find any English programmes on tv.
On Friday we spent the morning in the pool as the weather forecast rain later on. After lunch we walked to Carveiro, the nearest seaside resort. We walked there in hot sun but it clouded over as we got there. Faye went to the shop that sells inflatable giraffes that she wished she’d bought last October and got one but when we came back out of the shop it had started chucking it down! So we nipped into a cafe over the road for a coffee. We sat there until it stopped raining then set off to walk back, with both girls wrapped in Chinese ponchos mum had brought. It kept spitting but we made it back home just about dry. The sun then came back out so we went back in the pool. We drove back to Carveiro and went to an Italian restaurant for tea.
Saturday was forecast for rain all day but it was sunny first thing so we could again eat breakfast outside and then we went to 2 different supermarkets food shopping. The afternoon was spent in the pool until it rained again and we came in to watch the Manchester derby as Tom had worked out how to get Sky sports through his firestick. Tom barbecued tea again but we had to eat it inside as not only was it raining but it was also quite cold. We are now sat watching those 3 idiots who used to present Top gear as Felicity has gone to bed. She’s absolutely loving having all these relatives to entertain her all day long!