Piri piri! (Portugal)

After a hectic 2 weeks travelling around Ireland, Andy and I figured travelling was too much like hard work. So we had a holiday :) we had a lovely 9 days in sunny Portugal doing nothing but lazing on the beach, lazing in the apartment or tucking into delicious food!

We did have a few unanticipated adventures such as me getting a fish bone stuck in my throat and nearly having to go to the hospital (thankfully finally managed to swallow it as we were on our way!) - this incident resulted in Andy constantly singing 'fishbone' to the 'wishbone' theme tune and being allowed to tell me to chew my food before every meal...

We also took a taxi to a nearby town to one of Andy's favourite restaurants - only to find it closed and we had no way of ordering another taxi back! Thankfully a local English speaking pharmacist took pity on us and booked it for us! There's €20 we'll never see again. On the plus side we then made that meal at home ourselves which was delicious!

Highlight of the holiday has to be kayaking around the coast of Lagos! We had booked this a few days in advance when the weather had been gorgeous, but on the morning of the trip we woke up to this:

Thankfully it cleared up a bit by the afternoon and we had great fun kayaking through caves and grottoes and then out into the open sea! Needless to say we were knackered by the end of that!

We were well rested by the end of that holiday and ready to take on the rest of the world! We're now chilling in St Petersburg... But more on that later :)

Kirren x