So we are here after a thankfully, an uneventful journey. The bike boxes made it onto the plane and off again at Lisbon from where we were whisked off to the hotel in luxurous black Mercedes vans. The Hotel Palacio Ramalhete is a beautifully converted old town house down near the harbour, a boutique hotel with small, nicely appointed rooms.
The hotel allowed us to use the cellar to rebuild our bikes so we worked away between crates of beer and wine with pliers and torque wrenches until the bikes were rebuilt and ready of the start of our journey tomorrow morning.
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| Happily bike building |
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| Ready for Supper |
We wandered down to the centre of the city this afternoon and visited an ice cream shop and a couple of bars where we attempted to work out what time we would have to leave the hotel tomorrow morning to get the 2 ferries we will have to catch if we are going to cover the 110 miles in time to get to bed at a sensible hour.
This evening we found a small local restaurant serving an interesting combination of fish and fava beans. The arguments over who will carry the spare tyre successfully resolved, we all headed back to the hotel and bed.
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