having just returned from 2 weeks at CVO (RB) :D I wanted to share some of our experiences with restaurants this year. Best meal - l'orange (and no service problems at all) Most fun meal - chicken george which we tried at last after many years and thoroughly enjoyed as a welcome change and good food...

sadly the number supplied by Peter did not work however, this one seemed to (we wil see when we turn up for our table on Monday as to whether it was right or not) 282 081406. Mardre

:lol: thanks steve, i think it is more likely to get me commited! husband desperately hoping he insn't holidaying with 6 hormonal women! it could be him that is up for the award. you've got to laugh or you would cry. The game could be to guess how many pairs of shoes we all bring with us, or how man...

Peter, thank you so much! Myself, husband and 7 teenagers are very grateful (why oh why did I say they could bring friends ? still, it will be fine, it will be fine...... Mardre

pretty please, does anyone have the phone number of jardim do farol ?(turn right out of rocha brava, past the bins and it's on the right ) as I would like to book ahead for a large party ( bringing 5 extra teenagers seemed such a good idea at the time :lol: ) To be really sneaky, do you know which i...

Thank you for your replies and help, although I must admit to feeling like I've just had a session with the Spanish Inquisition :lol: the reason I did not try FAQs is that when I put it into 'search' nothing showed except a very old newsletter, and had it been there I would have expected it to show....

Sorry I know this has been covered before, but I can't find it when searching. Can anyone tell me please if this is easy/viable? it would probably be on a sunday or monday at the end of august to transfer son's friend to own family after holidaying with us. Many thanks, Mardre

Thank you Rudolph, we have already communicated under my 'real' name and you kindly gave me one recommendation. If you have others I would be grateful. Julia

Hi, I have had a look at the rentals section but it is difficult to find villas in a specific area if you do not know the villa name :? Does anyone have a 3/4 detached villa with pool for rent for 2 weeks around 19/8 ? We are very frequent visitors ( were nearly owners but that is another story :( )...

:( I would enquire very carefully about this. It does look nice and the quality of fittings seemed good when we looked around. but 3 years down the line they have still failed to build the villa we thought we were buying ( number chosen and all- luckily no money involved just a lot of dreams :cry: )...

:oops: ever feel like you have opened a can of worms?:~) My children too have been on school trips to spain, greece, france, canada, usa ... and we have never had to produce any such letter before. obviously this year we are going to come armed,( not literally, although that could speed up the passp...

we would second brassierie marinha but seem to remember from previous posts not everyone's cup of tea, however we found it superb and a 'little bit different' mardre ( but to be contentious we like julios, because we always get a warm welcome so what do we know !

:) Many thanks for your reply, that does make sense. We were surprised that the problem arose going home rather than coming in. We will come armed with suitable letters this year just in case. Strange though that some airlines will accept children on their own from 14 years but no mention is ever ma...

:? When we came over last year we brought 2 'extras' with us to keep our teenage darlings happy. On our way home, whilst going through passport control at faro, our guests were stopped by the officials and when they explained they were with us we were asked for letters of consent for them to travel ...

:( no, I am afraid there are probably quite a few of us who still have just the good old fashioned pink bit of paper with no photo. However we come over at least once a year and have always been able to hire cars based on our crumbling antiques with no problem :) mardre ( who is now trying to book a...