The Algarve

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I’m completely burnt out due to Covid / work so I just booked 8 nights in the Algarve leaving next week. It’s not a place I’ve ever consider visiting but it’s on the green list and the weather looks ok.

Is it the sort of Place I should just find a cheap place to stay and move from place to place with a rental car visiting small towns like you do in Italy?

Or is it more Set up like the Turkish resorts Where you basically just stay in your hotel with the odd day trip to the town?

I have a refundable booking for the Anantara for the first 4 nights and PESTANA BLUE ALVOR for the next 4.

other than keeping a close eye on my kid anything I should not miss out on?
 
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why would covid burn you out? general rules for that is sit on your bum and do nothing lol. only social media about covid would drain you.

If FB and Twitter existed during WW2 times? imagine...
 
Reality|Bites said:
why would covid burn you out? general rules for that is sit on your bum and do nothing lol. only social media about covid would drain you.

If FB and Twitter existed during WW2 times? imagine...
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He is a literal doctor...
 
when I've been in the A&E most of the time I've seen doctors and nurses just standing around having chats and doing nothing, while I've been sat there waiting on a nurse or doctor what gives? :P
One time I actually spoke up saying a doctor was stood there chatting to three nurses and i'd been sat waiting for 2 hours...they replied that they were on a break....yeah they really deserve that pay rise they want huh :P
 
Been 4 times. Always felt it as a place to get somewhere, chill and eat, drink and rest. Not Italy good, but does the job. My stays were as follows:

1) Total pit in Vilamoura (think Inbetweeners in first movie hotel…..but worse)
2) Company weekend on CEO’s big boat. 80 plus foot end of dock job, people stopping to wave as we left Lagos (think Monaca GP vibe….without, you know, the cars n stuff)
3) 4) Golf villa with friends. Right balance, posh, facilities and pool…..but cheap as friends place.

All 4 involved little to no movement outside the location we were in.
 
Reality|Bites said:
why would covid burn you out? general rules for that is sit on your bum and do nothing lol. only social media about covid would drain you.

If FB and Twitter existed during WW2 times? imagine...
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12h per day in PPE, working non stop during the peaks, watching young and old die every day, doing CPR in PPE. Having a department so full there is no pace and you have to put the sick in corridors will eventually take its toll.

I can feel I am at a point where my mental health will suffer if I don’t take a week or maybe even 2 off. I have only had one week off since covid started.
 
Reality|Bites said:
when I've been in the A&E most of the time I've seen doctors and nurses just standing around having chats and doing nothing, while I've been sat there waiting on a nurse or doctor what gives? :p
One time I actually spoke up saying a doctor was stood there chatting to three nurses and i'd been sat waiting for 2 hours...they replied that they were on a break....yeah they really deserve that pay rise they want huh :p
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My experience was different. Over 10 nights they stopped me dying and went to massive extents to put me at ease at my time of need.
 
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Housey said:
Been 4 times. Always felt it as a place to get somewhere, chill and eat, drink and rest. Not Italy good, but does the job. My stays were as follows:

1) Total pit in Vilamoura (think Inbetweeners in first movie hotel…..but worse)
2) Company weekend on CEO’s big boat. 80 plus foot end of dock job, people stopping to wave as we left Lagos (think Monaca GP vibe….without, you know, the cars n stuff)
3) 4) Golf villa with friends. Right balance, posh, facilities and pool…..but cheap as friends place.

All 4 involved little to no movement outside the location we were in.
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Thanks so it sounds like my plan was not a bad one. The GF was keen to drive around but I did not think it was that sort of place.

just a shame we can’t do Italy this year. Let’s hope it goes green at some point soon.
 
Reality|Bites said:
when I've been in the A&E most of the time I've seen doctors and nurses just standing around having chats and doing nothing, while I've been sat there waiting on a nurse or doctor what gives? :p
One time I actually spoke up saying a doctor was stood there chatting to three nurses and i'd been sat waiting for 2 hours...they replied that they were on a break....yeah they really deserve that pay rise they want huh :p
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lol which A&E was that? What time of day?
It can be quiet between 6am and 10 am but outside those hours it’s normally very busy.
 
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It all sounds really depressing and morbid but suddenly that row of :P :P :P just makes it all a big sarcastic hoot :P
 
Dr House said:
Thanks so it sounds like my plan was not a bad one. The GF was keen to drive around but I did not think it was that sort of place.

just a shame we can’t do Italy this year. Let’s hope it goes green at some point soon.
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You can drive about a bit but Portugal is all beaches and golf courses so best to stay put.
 
When we went we set up in Lagos for a week and made day trips from there. To be honest I found the Algarve quite dull in comparison to say Italy so you might be disappointed. The airport has a whole terminal for flights to the UK which tells you all you need to know about the general vibe.

What about doing a Porto - Lisbon road trip instead?
 
weringo said:
When we went we set up in Lagos for a week and made day trips from there. To be honest I found the Algarve quite dull in comparison to say Italy so you might be disappointed. The airport has a whole terminal for flights to the UK which tells you all you need to know about the general vibe.

What about doing a Porto - Lisbon road trip instead?
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True, I had an air rage incident first time I went there. Kid kicking my seat, dad not stopping him, got punchy too but in the end he had to go and fly the plane :D
 
Weringo, I did think about Lisbon but thought it may be a little cooler at this time of year. Flights to Faro are already booked now.

im am surprised how cheap the flights were but the hotel prices rocketed to make up for it.
 
Dr House said:
lol which A&E was that? What time of day?
It can be quiet between 6am and 10 am but outside those hours it’s normally very busy.
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The southern General now called the Queen Elizabeth in Glasgow. it was after work...Woman from work took me in after my shift after I had been limping around all day after my cat had attacked my leg in the morning and it was looking like it was infected. yeah yeah :P
My routine in the morning was get up, open the front door to let the cat out for a wander, go to the loo and have a shower, time I was done the cat would be back in to get fed etc, that morning he was in a bad mood, I wen to open the door and he just snarled at me and attacked my leg! zombie cat!
 
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