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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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Housey said:
As you asked.

Around 2014-2015 I started to suffer from asthma. It just came from nowhere and led to me getting into stronger and stronger inhalers. With it came lots of chest infections, several a year usually needing antibiotics to clear them. I also had nasal polyps and was under private consultants for both. We tried all sorts of things but nothing was really helping me.

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I am always suspicious of a dx of asthma at your age. Im glad things seem to be better. You have my number if you ever need to chat through what is going on.

I did think about a vila but there is not much around as everything is booked up and it's only 2 of us plus a 3 year old so a hotel works better with a kids club and not having to sort out food.

Thanks for the info everyone.
 
Well we have arrived.

it’s very very quiet here we took a walk down to the marina in Vilamoura which is almost empty. Our hotel is full but I don’t think others are.

I get the feeling it’s going to get very busy from this weekend onwards but at the moment it’s not bad.
Weather is bit bad also.


Thanks for all the tips guys. We rented a car so will drive around a little.
 
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