Hello, now that the Holiday season has all but finished and it is now the winter season, I would just like to tell you about my first Um Bica (coffee) For years me and the wife have had a bit of fun over having a bica and both have never had the nerve to have one as they are a bit strong, so we alway go for the coffee con leche.
Well on our July summer holiday to Lagos we got the train one day to Silves, well after a nice walk round the town up the castle and cathedral and back down for a look what was left in the market we went to the Churrasqueira Valdemar next to the market and river for a bit of lunch as we always do when we go to Silves.
After a great meal of chicken,chips and salad with a bottle or two of Super Bock it was back of to the train station and up the hill, we walk up it to try and walk of our meal, so when we got there we had a half hour wait for the train back to Lagos so we though we would go to a local cafe for a drink, I did not take its name but it was the first one next to the station on the right.
In we go and when I say local thats what it was just one local block sat reading his paper and the boss behind his counter well the wife said she would just have a water and I just felt like a coffee so up to the bar and in my best Portugese I asked for.
So on the bar he put one small bottle of water and to the coffe he said no, so I thoght did I say it right and asked again, he said no again and then said no Leche so what could I do but go for the Bica.
Sitting down at the table with the two drinks my wife laughing at my Bica said are you going to drink that then, I had a sniff it smelt very strong, so not to be a weed I put a little bag of sugar in it and had a sip, well I must say after that I never stopped drinking them for the rest of our holiday and it was no more Coffee con Leche's or Galao's for me I am now know to my wife as Um Bica.

The tale of my first Um Bica,
Dave