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Thursday 14 June 2012

11th June CASTELO BRANCO

We had a day off, it was so relaxing. First off we went to Jumbo for the free internet and I updated the blog. While we were there we joined a Portuguese online expat site; we can ask questions and get advice from people who have been living here for a while.

Then we went to look at strimmers, again, we keep looking at strimmers but can’t actually bring ourselves to buy one as we have a really good one back in the UK.

We went in to Castelo Branco for lunch; I asked for a salad and chips and that was exactly what I got, lettuce, tomato and chips – I thought it might have been mixed salad, still it filled a hole.

We’ve been really pleased with our Kindles, and an added bonus has been the free internet access (even though it is very slow); we’ve got into the habit of checking our emails on it in the evening (it saves on trips to Jumbo). Tonight we couldn’t log in to AOL, we got an error message 420 unused, we’ve no idea what it means apart from the fact that we can’t check our emails any more on the Kindles – what a pisser!

We watched a film this evening; we started watching ‘Sanctum’ and Brett, who always gives films far more chance than me, said “I can’t watch this it’s crap” – the acting was atrocious and the characters were so clichéd; surprisingly the executive producer was James Cameron, who directed ‘Titanic’, so you would have thought it would have been good. So then we put on ‘Moon’ which started quite slowly, with me saying “I don’t understand what’s happening”, but it actually was quite good in the end.

Tomorrow we’re back to work; but I’m quite excited as we’ll be going to the village’s monthly market when we arrive (last month we arrived just as they were all clearing up).

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