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susandawn · Post by **susandawn** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 10:52 pm

Having drifted so far from the original subjects in previous forums I thought I would start a new one, anything goes!!. Many thanks for the welcome yesterday. Have to confess to eavesdropping on your conversations for quite a while but being the shy retiring type (a virgo) I have not been brave enough to join in. Today has been one of those days from hell so I need something to lighten the mood. I came back from CVO 2 weeks ago and wont be back again until September

maddi · Post by **maddi** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:24 pm

God help you, with this heading, you know what some of us are like when there is a specific topic we are supposed to be responding to

I am glad that you still decided to take the plunge and join even after you had been "eavesdropping" for a while, and that the worst of our excesses did not put you off. I have to say, from a personal point of view, that we always need new blood

And we are not that bad really and we do all love CVO, do you have a place out there or are you a more casual visitor? Whereabouts do you tend to stay? What beaches do you like? Restaurants? Bars?

I will, of course, be accused of being nosy, but they won't be able to say they weren't interested in your responses

Looking forward to engaging with you. Mads

tricky · Post by **tricky** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:31 pm

Hi, I'm new too, and have to say I find the chat and the information
facinating, it can even get a bit heated but never boring.
We have visted Carvoeiro many times over the years and look forward
to coming back soon

maddi · Post by **maddi** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:36 pm

Oh welcome to you too

Oh and can you answer all those questions - this is great - love new people - the ones who want to join in . . . and not be anonymous

. . . and on that subject have either of you been one of our anonymous "friends" and I use the term loosely in the past few weeks

Mads

susandawn · Post by **susandawn** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:50 pm

Being going to CVO for a few years now. Stay at Villa Laranja Du Sol, you may or may not know of its reputation

Sullys, Smilers, Mikes Bar amongst others and of course Jailhouse (last port of call before crawling up the hill to home) I'm a pool person by day but the beach is best at night. Last September was unfortunate to catch a 'bad weather' week and the beach when angry was quite spectacular, White Horses

susandawn · Post by **susandawn** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:52 pm

Being going to CVO for a few years now. Stay at Villa Laranja Du Sol, you may or may not know of its reputation

Sullys, Smilers, Mikes Bar amongst others and of course Jailhouse (last port of call before crawling up the hill to home) I'm a pool person by day but the beach is best at night. Last September was unfortunate to catch a 'bad weather' week and the beach when angry was quite spectacular, White Horses

tricky · Post by **tricky** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:53 pm

If I remember rightly the 'friends' over the past few weeks have been
too 'shy' to reveal their true names or too cowardly...

In answer to your other questions (love a good gossip myself)
I've not really found a Restaurant in CVO that I didn't like apart from
Chef Antonio's, that whilst the food was good, waiting over one and half hours for the main course with three children (they were small then)
was not acceptable, even in laid-back Portugal. My favourite beach
never can remember the name - is the one on the way to Ferragudo
with the really good bar/restaurant with the permanently burning BBQ.
and you can't really see the highrise blocks on the opposite coast.

maddi · Post by **maddi** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:01 am

Caneiros or something like that, Tricky. Unhelpfully, in my family we have so got in the habit of calling it Canary Beach that I can't remember how to say or spell its real name.

Glad you do gossip, always great to see, do you do banter as well?

tricky · Post by **tricky** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:07 am

Looking forward to it Maddi.
don't know how to work the Emoticons though.

maddi · Post by **maddi** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:10 am

Emoticons - in profile - always enable smilies - yes

Just need SusanDawn to refresh now as I have sent her a pm to tell her how to get rid of her multiple postings.

susandawn · Post by **susandawn** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:11 am

Sounds like Tricky & I could both do with some lessons

We'll soon get the hang of it and then we can have some good gossips, do you people watch too?? One of my favourite hobbies.

maddi · Post by **maddi** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:20 am

I love people watching and making wickedly unprofessional assessments based on things like the shoes they are wearing

.

The other thing I admit to doing is eavesdropping when sitting in restaurants and telling my family to shut up because I think I am about to miss something crucial - I am not proud of it but I do it just the same

Mads

susandawn · Post by **susandawn** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:23 am

I love a nice big group and trying to guess the relationships, making up the best ones of course

Clothes are always a dead give away, when abroad, to working out nationalities. Hair do's too, there are some typical British ones!!!

Susan

tricky · Post by **tricky** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:28 am

Oh I am so good at people listening too, I can home in on a conversation across the room and totally ignore the people I'm with, and What on Earth has she got on!!! and 'all over golden tan's on slim people are so last year!

Ha did it - Thanks maddi, susandawn.

susandawn · Post by **susandawn** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:38 am

Curves are definitely the new black. And all those tans are from a bottle or the Tanning Centre anyway, have to admit here that I had a couple of sessions just to start off the tan this year.