Oops sorry Jay. Am back and we had a brilliant time in Salema - what a lovely little village.
Our apartment over looked the beach so of a morning with our coffee on the balcony we could watch the fishermen bringing their catch home. Then around 8am the bread van would open that sold fresh bread and croissants. Soon you heard the tooting, signalling the arrival of the fruit and veg man from where my son bought fresh strawberries and cherries for €1.
The resort has about 7 restaurants of which we tried 4 as we kept going back to the same one's due to the food being really nice. There were 2 small bars, one of which stayed open till 2.30am (son sampled a few late nights there) and the nearby hotel's bar stayed open till 2am.
We got out and about as usual in our hire car and revisited Caldes de Monchique for hubby's favourite outdoor oven baked, sausage in a bread roll. We also went to Sand City (Films this year), Slide and Splash (I sat on the grass and didn't slide or splash anywhere), Zoomarine (good day here I enjoyed it), Albufeira old town (son needed shop therapy), Lagos (more snooping round the shops and had to have a big, full of fruit, ice cream). Hubby and I drove to Spain one day to get our ciggies as they are so much cheaper there. Used 1/4 tank diesel so worth it. Went up to Alte as well as it's a cute little village.
Weather was lovely although the first few nights were decidedly chilly with the breeze. Flights with Globespan were fine although they weighed our hand luggage on the way out. We hid it on the way back ie son checked in and we held his bag then he took ours and we checked in - and they weren't bothering weighing hand luggage on the return leg which seemed odd.