{"id":2981,"date":"2014-05-26T10:02:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T09:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:52:19","slug":"biking-boating-and-blobbing-on-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2014\/05\/26\/biking-boating-and-blobbing-on-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Biking, Boating And Blobbing On Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rocha Negra at Praia Da Luz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On Saturday, Rodney climbed aboard his bicycle and did a reconnaissance of Luz, giving me time to get our website up to date. Or not.\u00a0 He was back in less than an hour; it turned out that we were a lot closer to the town than we thought.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t fancy cycling back in again, which makes me think that maybe the hill is steeper than he\u2019s letting on, so we slothed alone beside another empty campsite swimming pool for a couple of hours and then spent the rest of the day whiling our time away in slow-motion\u2026..<\/p>\n

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Praia da Luz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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And on Sunday, we both climbed aboard our bicycles and peddled down to Luz.\u00a0 After a slow stroll around the village, we spread our towels out on the sand and read our books to the gentle sound of the waves.\u00a0 So relaxing. And we followed up our siesta with a very late lunch at a beach-side caf\u00e9, before cycling back up to the campsite.\u00a0 Not too steep, but I did have to push my bike on a small section\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n

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Rodney reading the papers in Pra\u00e7a Luis de Cam\u00f3es Lagos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Laura checking out the old slave market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Finally on Monday, we expended a bit more energy.\u00a0 We drove into Lagos for an English\u00a0Breakfast; although with a carrot, gherkin and cauliflower garnish, it looked suspiciously ‘un-English’.\u00a0 It wasn’t as good as Rodney\u2019s, but at least there was less washing-up and the fresh orange juice was delicious.\u00a0 A roam around through the old town had us liking the place; definitely somewhere we could come back to.\u00a0 Near the Fort da Ponta da Bandeira, we met a man selling boat trips and it seemed like a good idea.\u00a0 It turned out to be a brilliant idea.\u00a0 Our trusty toothless sailor took us on board the MV Humberto, pointed to two lifejackets and set off around the fort.\u00a0 The coastline along this section of the Algarve is spectacular; continual stacks, caves, arches, chimneys and grottoes.<\/p>\n

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Our capitan on the MV Humbeto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One holey stack amongst many stacks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Through the arches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The little blue and yellow boat weaved in and out, around and under.\u00a0 We squeezed into sections of rock so small that we had to reverse out as there was not enough room to turn around.\u00a0 Our capitan pointed out \u2018the elephant\u2019, \u2018the windows\u2019, \u2018the cathedral\u2019, \u2018the camel\u2019, another elephant and the names of all the tiny beaches tucked in amongst it all.\u00a0\u00a0 It was so spectacular, especially set against the most vibrant blue sky and a sea so clear and coloured the most lovely turquoise and blue.<\/p>\n

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Impressive chimneys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Just beautiful………..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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How to leave a cave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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None of our photos can possibly reflect exactly what we saw and without the feeling of bobbing about on the waves, it\u2019s just not as dramatic, but they will be a lovely reminder of our hour out at sea near Lagos.\u00a0 Back on dry-land, we drove Eileen out to Ponta da Piedade, parked up and then strolled around on the cliff tops above where we had just been floating.\u00a0 We could see all the way down the coast back to Luz and on to Ponta de Sagres, the tip of Iberian Man\u2019s beard.<\/p>\n

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Looking down at Pont da Piedade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Looking east along the coastline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Our last expedition for the day was a climb down around 150 to 200 steep wooden steps, which led us down to Praia do Camilo, one of the little beaches we had spotted while on the boat trip. \u00a0We spread our towels and enjoyed the view of the arches and stacks from a different angle and watched all the colourful wooden boats passing by with more happy tourists aboard.\u00a0 The climb back up to the main road wasn\u2019t quite as easy, but we just took it slowly, turning around regularly to soak up the views as we went.<\/p>\n

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Praia do Camilo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Street art in Lagos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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  On Saturday, Rodney climbed aboard his bicycle and did a reconnaissance of Luz, giving me time to get our website up to date. Or not.\u00a0 He was back in less than an hour; it turned out that we were a lot closer to the town than we thought.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t fancy cycling back in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8331,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/8331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}