Pedro

I just wanted to get some colour into your report, buy some oranges ffs!

Funeral companies are asking for an authorization to forego wakes, they've got no venues for so many people at the same time. On the other hand, abandoned clinics and other buildings are being taken over by the state and converted to covid hospitals. I wouldn't want to be working for the state right now, being a politician or any kind of managerial post right now must be horrible.

Hospitals have taken to renting freezer trailers and using them as temporary morgues outside, they've got no space inside. Hospitals are freaking out as newly sick people are about to start getting triage not needed until now, and running out of resources. Our health service is usually very good, but they've been cutting down on doctors over the last few years, now they're trying to hire people on a rush and it's no surprise they're having difficulties. The church, themselves, have canceled all masses and events, and will be doing everything online. I thought someone has just lost their chance for a proper cheap wedding involving no reception It's the first time this has happened though, doesn't bother me none but it's a sign of the times.

If we can convince @Clive buy something else, maybe some ham, or butter, or whatever he likes in his sandwiches, it´ll be a ride report to remember. I, for one, will not ride. I am seriously jonesing right now, though, I go to the garage and just pet my bike ? It's horrible weather, it's been raining sideways for the last couple of days, with alternated hailstorms or just immense wind, the kind that bends street signs and moves dumpsters around. Just went for a very short 5 minute walk with Costa for his morning poo, and we both came running back inside dripping wet. Covid here is getting worse everyday, we're the developed world's most infected country per population right now, so restrictions won't ease for the next few days, instead they'll get worse.

He's nothing if not a modest man.

Aren’t baps boobs?

Oui!

The kind that covers your own damages to your own bike even if you are to blame, or theft. We can really only get insurance to cover damages inflicted to other people.

You truly are a savage.

It's a caramelized onion and cheese omelette sandwich, I was quite proud of it.

French? what on earth?

Best thing ever to eat on bread, my brother brings it when he returns from Croatia, it's a paste made only of roasted peppers. Just a little spicy.

Fish soup, also great to warm up.

Mum's broccoli rice with chorizo And her cabbage rice with blood sausage

"Bacalhau à Brás", "straw" style chips with codfish and egg.

How I end some nice October and November evenings at home, sitting outside with some wine and cheese.

Clams, cooked in garlic and white wine, with coriander, doesn't get better than this if you're south.

A staple of portuguese mediterranean food, a simple fish grilled on coal with potatoes and some kind of vegetable

One of my favourite restaurants in the Algarve, near the top of Algarve's highest peak with almost 900 meters and a view to the ocean in the distance, great roads around and the food is amazing too Lamb with mint flavored rice Same rice, but with pork

Can't go wrong, but I bet there is a couple of brits here that don't like olives

Mum's cannelloni, there is only this picture, they don't last long...

My own roasted chicken with vegetables

A snack with @Sofia on a very cold Alentejo evening, some great smoked ham and wine, it was a perfect end to a sunny winter day on the bike.

Arriving to the Algarve, on a 27th December and having a light lunch wearing a t-shirt after taking off the cold weather layers