Had a quiet day today at the apartment because Brian caught my cold and needed to lie down for most of the day.
Yesterday we did venture into town for a late lunch. Brian had the traditional rabbit stew and I had my second meal of grilled sardines. It seems to be getting warmer by one degree a day, but it is still cooler in the evenings and we are still needing the heater in the bedroom.
Flowers continue to greet the spring and it is lovely to see the increase in blooms almost on a daily basis.
When we arrived at the apartment, a man was busy cleaning the pool water and throwing in some chemicals. The only things that we have seen enjoying the pool are gulls, some of them look as big as geese and have a red spot on both sides of the lower beak. These are nothing like the gulls that circle the municipal dump back home. Actually there are two pools here but we can only see one from our apartment.
We have been watching the British news channels and know that British airways has cancelled all flights to Italy until at least the end of the month so it looks as though we will not be going to Naples. Britain is still taking containment measures, but many large gatherings have been postponed for the time being and Transport London is sanitizing handrails and automated tellers for buying tickets. The number of people using the underground is down. The silliest thing is the stockpiling going on in the supermarkets. Here in Portugal everything is calm and all the shelves are full.
We put our tours on hold as Brian wasn’t feeling too well, but we will book something for Thursday. More anon.
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