{"id":2271,"date":"2014-02-01T18:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T18:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2014-02-01T18:17:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T18:17:21","slug":"al-gharbh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2271","title":{"rendered":"Al-Gharb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somewhat uncharacteristically we jetted off to warmer climes last weekend. \u00a0\u00a0 John & Yvonne are spending winter in Portugal and we thought we had better go and see them.\u00a0 Never having been to the Algarve we were very excited, and once installed it felt like walking out of a black and white film into a Technicolor™ one.\u00a0 All too soon we are back home, looking at each other and saying “Did that really happen?”<\/p>\n

It was of course relatively quiet, as evidenced by the photos.\u00a0 It must be very, very different in the high season.\u00a0\u00a0 So, below, some shots of pretty Albufeira: some deserted beaches, an egg custard tart which was easily one of the best things I have ever eaten, and people smiling in the sunshine.<\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/a>
Looking south<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sunset<\/a>
Sunset over the pool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mackerel<\/a>
Mackerel sky in Albufeira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"One<\/a>
One of many many tiled house names<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Strelitzia<\/a>
Strelitzia – Bird of Paradise flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Paul<\/a>
Paul & John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Paul\"<\/a>
Paul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Albufeira<\/a>
Albufeira beach at rush hour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eggy<\/a>
Eggy pastry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"John<\/a>
John & Yvonne in Albufeira old town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fisherman<\/a>
Fisherman on crowded Algarve beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tiled<\/a>
Tiled sign in the old town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Al Gharb is Arabic for The West, this part of the Iberian peninsula was the furthest west part of the Arabian empire (it says here).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somewhat uncharacteristically we jetted off to warmer climes last weekend. \u00a0\u00a0 John & Yvonne are spending winter in Portugal and we thought we had better go and see them.\u00a0 Never having been to the Algarve we were very excited, and once installed it felt like walking out of a black and white film into a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}