Portimao is the second biggest city in the Algarve, and famous for its fresh fish restaurants, grilled sardines being the most famous. We took the tender ashore and walked over to Praia da Rocha, a nice beach. On the way there, we passed a couple of marinas, bringing back memories of Heat Wave. Charlotte had great fun playing on the blow up playground in the sea with Charlie and her two younger sisters.
The last tender back to the ship was at 5.30pm. As the ship hadn’t docked until noon, a lot people were making the most of the day and catching the last tender back to the ship. The tender ride was quite long, and made longer due to roughish seas. Combining this with only 2 tenders, carrying 90 people each and a half hour tender ride, not surprisingly, we didn’t finally get back to the boat til after 7pm! Fortunately there was a bar at the dock so we all got to sample the local beer! The tender ride was made more exciting by the waves splashing over and into the tender, getting a few people wet!
