I Survived...

[JJ]

Decided to head south on motorway...

The A2 was a ruddy race track packed with mad drivers racing south from Lisbon to the Algarve. I saw three examples of the most dangerous driving I have ever witnessed.

Anyhow I have made it down to Armacão de Pera, am parked up on the football carpark along with a million cars and approximately 25 campers. €6.

Never been here at this time of year.

Now in the Bollywood Restaurant having ordered more food than I will ever be able to eat...

JJ

 

[Ingwe]

Decided to head south on motorway...

The A2 was a ruddy race track packed with mad drivers racing south from Lisbon to the Algarve. I saw three examples of the most dangerous driving I have ever witnessed.

Anyhow I have made it down to Armacão de Pera, am parked up on the football carpark along with a million cars and approximately 25 campers. €6.

Never been here at this time of year.

Now in the Bollywood Restaurant having ordered more food than I will ever be able to eat...

JJ

Enjoy. We like Armacão de Pera. Have stayed on the football ground a number of times. I heard they were closing it. Was a lot of new flats building nearby when last there. Have also stayed on the large campsite just off the roundabout but found it very impersonal. Used to enjoy our stays at Mikki’s but then it got too big for the facilities. Have fun and enjoy.

 

[JJ]

Enjoy. We like Armacão de Pera. Have stayed on the football ground a number of times. I heard they were closing it. Was a lot of new flats building nearby when last there. Have also stayed on the large campsite just off the roundabout but found it very impersonal. Used to enjoy our stays at Mikki’s but then it got too big for the facilities. Have fun and enjoy.

The flats are really coming on now...

I believe some folk have been fined in past times for staying overnight but it has always been random and I have always been OK (touch wood)

Got to go... food has arrived

JJ

 

[Ingwe]

The flats are really coming on now...

I believe some folk have been fined in past times for staying overnight but it has always been random and I have always been OK (touch wood)

Got to go... food has arrived

JJ

Hope it’s prawns peri-peri.
As a young man, used to drive 350 miles from Johannesburg to Maputo (then Lourenço Marques) for one night at the Hotel Polana with a meal of the above, a few bottles of chilled Castle as a before drink and a few bottles of chilled Simonsig for the prawns. Oh those days of youthful privilege.

 

[JJ]

I don't eat anything from the sea...

I don't eat anything on two legs (except crispy duck starters at a Chinese restaurant.

JJ

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[Ingwe]

I don't eat anything from the sea...

I don't eat anything on two legs (except crispy duck starters at a Chinese restaurant.

JJ

I always sit down when eating if possible. Including things from the sea…..

 

[yodeli]

I don't eat anything from the sea...

I don't eat anything on two legs (except crispy duck starters at a Chinese restaurant.

JJ

You don't eat rabbit just the same and they have more than 2 legs Dear!

 

[Ingwe]

You don't eat rabbit just the same and they have more than 2 legs Dear!

Two legs, two hunkers.

 

[Vintage_Potter]

Hope it’s prawns peri-peri.
As a young man, used to drive 350 miles from Johannesburg to Maputo (then Lourenço Marques) for one night at the Hotel Polana with a meal of the above, a few bottles of chilled Castle as a before drink and a few bottles of chilled Simonsig for the prawns. Oh those days of youthful privilege.

I lived in Jo'burg in the 80s and loved the place - best time of my life. Never got to Mozambique though, it was very much out of bounds due to the civil war following independence, a very bloody time for them. So the closest I got was Kruger Park. I always imagined Mozambique as Kruger with an Indian ocean beach, must have been heaven.

 

[Ingwe]

I lived in Jo'burg in the 80s and loved the place - best time of my life. Never got to Mozambique though, it was very much out of bounds due to the civil war following independence, a very bloody time for them. So the closest I got was Kruger Park. I always imagined Mozambique as Kruger with an Indian ocean beach, must have been heaven.

Yes, like most Saffers my age (67) there was involvement with the war. Not so happy memories.
Mozambique was lovely, although the Hotel Polana in Mozambique wasn’t the five star hotel it is now.
The beaches and the city generally were lovely. Mozambique had wonderful old Portuguese colonial-style buildings and my love of Portuguese people stems from my experiences there. Wonderfully warm and sharing people; something we found in Portugal too, since we started motor homing.
Glad you loved Jo’burg. My home city and I do miss the energy. If I win the lotto (which would be a miracle as I don’t do it) I’d return and have a flat in Jo’burg and a house near Wit Rivier (near to KNP). Dream on

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[champers]

When we last stayed there a couple of years ago ..local police knocked on doors early morning fining folk but having been given good advice don't open the doors and scram as soon as possible ..sadly the young couple next to us only arrived late at nite but answered the door alas they received a fine

 

[Ingwe]

When we last stayed there a couple of years ago ..local police knocked on doors early morning fining folk but having been given good advice don't open the doors and scram as soon as possible ..sadly the young couple next to us only arrived late at nite but answered the door alas they received a fine

Fining them for what?

 

[champers]

They were fined for camping which was not allowed at the time … they had left camping stuff outside overnite .. A D Pera had at the time strict no overnite camping which was often overlooked by the police unless the local trade complained …the police used to swoop every once in a while ..

I omitted to add that it was only a car park, although there was a tap and somewhere to drop waste

Hope this helps to explain

 

[JJ]

Well... they haven't swooped today despite vans being on ramps, awnings out and table and chairs outside one or two vans!

Most folk, like me, are obeying the "no camping" rules because we are good...

JJ

 

[laurieash]

When table and chairs awning etc that's the time I bugger off.
As you know it's only a matter of time before you all get shifted.
And washing lines really pee me off.

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