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Thanks. It was a really murky day with a light fog that didn't clear. This was taken probably 2-3pm. It was taken on my Galaxy S8 and I reduced the resolution to give it a bit of a grainy appearance.

Taken during a walk between Christmas and New year along the river we used to live near.

TBF, even though we've only been here since last year, you get used to the heat to an extent. We now look at the forecast and it's "only" going to be 25C tomorrow!

No, us paupers can only afford a trailer!

Best not mention the pool then!

Do you reckon?

Thanks Pete. We stretched to budget a bit, but we both fell in love with the place when we saw it. And it's got aircon in all the rooms too!

It's nothing fancy, but it ticks all of our boxes.

I'd never realised what or who they were before? Yeah, yeah, I live under a rock!

It's a small villa, Pete. Just fancied somewhere with a bit of a garden around it.

Today I will mainly be waiting in for a couple of deliveries. Not much biking action planned for the weekend. At least, yesterday we went for another look around the place that we're buying and started planning how we're going to furnish it, as we ditched most of our furniture in the UK before we came out here.

How about a photo thread with a different theme each month? For instance one month could be bridges, with a photo of your bike and a bridge? Just as another bit of fun and it may give folks some inspiration of places to seek out on their bike? Just a thought @XTreme?

Thanks Pete. You may have seen it on FB too.

Just needs a milkshake to go with it!

I came from the respectable side of the pool though, Pete!

Yeah, my mum lives not far from the crossing and it's regularly gridlocked around her place. I had a zoom call arranged with one of my mates last Friday evening, but I got a message to postpone it until the weekend as he was stuck trying to get back from Kent! It's a nightmare!

About 30 years ago I used to go over to Boston, MA to help the local engineer out. Nice guy and president of his local Harley chapter, but he had a really bad limp, which I assumed was the result of a bike accident. I was over one time and we got chatting about bikes and that and I asked if the limp was the result of a bike accident? He laughed and said no. He told me that he was on the gun boats that patrolled the rivers during the Vietnam War. One day they were out on patrol and came under fire from one bank. He was laid on the deck returning fire along with the bow gunner. They then came under fire from the other bank, so the bow gunner swung round to return fire, but didn't take his finger off the trigger, so he shot-up his own boat and the guy I knew had a big lump blasted out of his left leg by his own gunner! Still, that was the end of his war!

Originally from northwest Kent, Pete, but I moved to Cambridgeshire in the early 90's because of work. My mum used to ask when was I going to move back and I said never. She lives in Dartford and moans about it constantly.

I'm glad that the farm is still there and doing ok. It would have been a shame to see it close.

I'll go back through and have a read of them. Yes, the little I've seen of Portugal, Porto was different to Lisbon which is different to the Algarve. But that's what makes it so interesting. I don't have a favourite, because they were all interesting and enjoyable in their own way.

I love the little that I've seen of Portugal. The people I met there were all really friendly too. Maybe I'll get to go and explore there some more in the future, but, in the meantime, keep posting your photos of the country please.

Excellent. I used to drive more or less past that when I was going into the Royal London Hospital. I'd come down the M11 and then onto the Blackwall tunnel approach, but I turned off just past Bromley-by-Bow underground station and then head across to Stepney High Street and then the back roads through to the hospital. Some interesting places along the way. There used to be a small farm not far from Stepney High Street, but I think it was getting closed down the last time I saw it.

Sonofabitch!