We were up at 2.00am, our packing in the car and drove to Lou and Rhys’s, left Ellie for her holiday with them and then Lou kindly drove us to Gatwick. We were late taking off as it was so busy but the pilot made the time up and we were still early and a wind free landing at Funchal. A mini bus straight to the hotel . Our room wasn’t ready so we put our luggage in the secure place and went and found Paula and Gilly who arrived the previous evening.
We haven’t met up for so long we just sat and chatted and chatted. Our room was probably ready at 3 but we were still sitting by the sea, drinking at 5! Our favourite waiter Mohamed, of course he remembered us and even brought the drinks to our table!
We then decided it was time to find our room and unpack. A honey cake was in the room! That was nice but there is also so much food in the restaurant, all the time! Back down for dinner and we started the line up of glasses again! Hawk man was also around , to scare the pigeons away, who will eat off your table if the hawk wasn’t there!
Huge bowls of prawns on the dinner display. I think our table had quite a lot! We ate as the sun was setting,
After getting up in the morning at 2am, we decided to go to bed a little earlier than usual!
We leave the patio doors open and are gently lulled off to sleep by the sound of the sea.