Mon 26 May- breakfast of coffee, apple and banana, found another cool, cloudy, rain-showery day outside.We stopped by the El Corte Ingles to get Kiyomi's watch fixed. It was done for free, but didn't last more than 3 days, because the part was wrong. We then continued on to our 34th anniversary "splurge", the Pestana Palace Hotel (http://www.pestana.com), with a (accidental) side trip across the Portuguese Golden Gate bridge. We checked in and explored the garden (another target) and the hotel interior. It's a beautiful, restored palace, 5-star and very plush.
We celebrated with a "splurge" dinner there: sand sole with lobster, sea scallopes, razor fish, ziti, curry and aromatic herbs; semi-sweet white wine; guinea fowl with coconut, corn, manioc & peanuts, chili, pepper and okra for a total of E65. The food was very good, and although it wasn't great, the ambience, fine china, art works all around, and feeling of royalty was great and made up for any shortcoming - we could definitely get used to it!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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