We woke to sunshine this morning after a day and night of rain.
We spent some time this morning doing most of our packing and we checked in with British Airways and paid for our baggage so we are pretty sure that we will at least get to Gatwick Airport and then on to Heathrow tomorrow. We should be able to check in on line with Air Canada when we get to the hotel at Heathrow.
We walked into town for a late lunch and noticed that there weren’t any restaurants open, but we were able to get a pizza in a bar. When we were there two days ago, they had all the chairs out and there were a few people in there. Today all the outside chairs and tables had been put away, but we ate inside with the door open and the customers were spaced within the area.
Jane, who looks after the apartment, came round earlier this evening to return our damage deposit. She has been trying to help other people get flights out of Portugal to get back to Canada and the UK. She told us that the Portuguese President declared a state of emergency this lunch time and the borders are closed to the rest of Europe.
While we have been at home in the evenings, we have been watching some excellent documentaries on BBC and we both remarked today about how much we have learned about British history in the past couple of weeks. We have also enjoyed a couple of episodes called Lost Sitcoms which have recreated some of the sitcoms of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. The producers managed to find actors who both looked and sounded like the actors in the original series. For those who may remember, we watched recreated episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour and All in the Family. They are still hilarious today!
We have a taxi booked for 8:30 tomorrow morning so I will write from the Ibis hotel near Heathrow Airport tomorrow evening.
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