Got the rest of the shopping done today with Alex in Chaves. Was good fun and a nice day to be outside.
I got a nice soft dark blue pair of jeans, hoodie jumper and some shoes, along with the rest of the souvenirs I wanted to get for people.
We had a lovely lunch at an apparently traditional Portuguese cuisine restaurant. The building was amazing in style and character, just wonder what it was used for in it's previous life/lives......
Wandered up to the bus station to head back to montalegre to find we just missed a bus and the next was almost 2 hours away so we caught a taxi instead. Beautiful new looking Mercedes e class. Leather interior, all the gadgets you could ask for, like an aeroplane screaming down the runway for take off but without the noise. It was a lovely ride :-)
Did another lap of montalegre waiting for the next bus to friães which turned out to be the school bus service lol so a typically 20 or so minute trip became an hour and a half lol
Then went back to montalegre for dinner with auntie and uncle who I stayed with the other night - their daughter's birthday. Got to meet and make friends with her husband who was very lovely and intelligent - qualified aeroplane mechanic but working as a driving instructor at the moment.....
And afterwards came back to friães and went to the local cafe with most of the dinner crew for a last coffee/tea before bed.....
Tomorrow we get to goto porto to visit some of mum's side of the family which will be good as I haven't seen them since 1990.....
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