Faro, That Time We Saw the Sun.

Well once again i am a little bit late here with the blog. I dont understand how people can be so Johnny on the spot with these things. Don't you people have anything else to do? Don't you?! Well i do. So anyWHO. We went to Faro, Portugal about a week ago! We laughed, we cried, we had a really great time. But actually, that all happened. We had to wake up at 3 am on Friday morning in order to get to the megabus stop on time to get the bus to bristol, to get on another bus, to get on a train, to get on a plane to Faro. I was beyond nervous and stressed out already so waking up super early didnt help much. Once we got to the megabus stop there was a bus already there so Mitch went to ask the driver if they were going to Bristol. The driver just looked at him funny and said "No,London..Londooon...Londooon" we just went and hid until the next bus came which actually was going to Bristol. I think as soon as the bus started moving i was asleep. I slept basically the entire way to Bristol. We got off the bus and had to start running up what has to be the only hill we have had to climb in Wales, ever. We were so afraid of missing our bus so we just booked it and Mitch was yelling "We're not going to make it!" and i was wheezing and basically meeting my death, so im sure we looked perfectly normal. Turns out you are not supposed to go whichever way we went into the busstop because that bus driver said "What are you doing out there? Its dangerous!" I responded with a couch and wheeze and just handed him our tickets. He let us on and off we went to the airport. We got to the airport and easily got through security and to our gate. We had about 15 minutes to spare! Once we boarded the plane i fell right back asleep and suddenly...FARO. We got a bus from the airport right to our Hostel which was nice. So we were able to check in and go right on our adventure. It turns out Faro is not a really well planned out city. The roads are all curvy and dont really follow the map, that was a fun lesson to learn. After circling back about 5 times we decided to try something new..head towards the steeple of the church and not use the map! It worked pretty well! We found the Chapel of Bones! Its a good thing that Mitch knows Portuguese because i would have never been able to figure out how we were supposed to go into the chapel. The actual Chapel of Bones is in the back yard of the church and is made out of human remains of past monks. It sounds disgusting but it was oddly really pretty.After exploring around there for awhile we went down to the Marina and looked at the bay for awhile before we ate lunch at a little restaurant by the docks. The food was pretty good there, it wasn't anything fancy but it was lunch! After lunch we searched for a museum for a good amount of time, found it, only had bills to pay for admission and the people wanted coins so instead of taking the bills they just let us in for free which was pretty cool. The museum showed Faro's past through textiles and pieces of art. It was cool to learn about the history of the old town and how it evolved into where we were. We made our way to the old town in Faro which is literally where the town started and nothing has been changed in it so its got a bunch of little shops and a really pretty cathedral. We climbed to the roof of the cathedral and got an amazing view of the city and the ocean. By this time we were both a little hungry, so after much debate we decided to go to this very picturesque restaurant in the old town. I'm not the only one who thought it was picturesque.. its on a post card! We looked at the menu and decided to get salads. I got the cheese and tomato salad and Mitch got the vegetarian salad. Mitch ordered for us in Portuguese which was very cool and the woman told us to sit wherever we wanted so we chose to sit outside at one of the tables. They brought us water bottles and cups to poor the water in. My cup had pink colored glass at the bottom and Mitch's had yellow. So the water turned the color of the bottom of the glass.You can imagine what Mitch's water looked like...We waited for a very long time just sitting in front of the restaurant. We noticed that there only seemed to be two woman working there.  When a man sat down outside by us and one of the woman brought him water i realized that she was walking kind of funny. It was more like a step of one foot and then the other leg would swing around...suspiciously like someone who only had one leg. Now don't get me wrong i have got nothing against people with one leg...i was just being observant. As we continued to wait the other woman working there kept walking out into the street to talk to people or to pet their dogs or just to dance around and sing and laugh kind of manically. We are pretty sure she had had a few too many to drink but again, we weren't passing judgment. Well we weren't until our salads came out. The woman came step-swinging along with one meal and the other woman came dancing and singing along with the other. The Portuguese must have a different word for "salad" because my cheese and tomato salad was literally cheese, tomatoes and ice cubes in a bowl. Mitch at least had a little bit of lettuce, but mostly it was just a strange veggie platter. We didn't want to be rude so we ate as much as we possibly could, paid and got the heck out of there. We decided to give up and go to McDonalds but we didnt want to get sick so we got salads again...luckily the real kind this time. After an 18 hour day we pretty much crawled back to the hostel and crashed. The next day we woke up and got on a ferry to the Deserted Island to go to the beach. It was kind of cloudy in the morning so the ferry ride over was quite chilly. Once we got there we walked on the beach and found a nice sunny spot to "sun-bathe". Why the quotes? I was covered head to toe so i wasn't getting any sun really...but i was warm! So we just hung out on the beach until lunch time where we went to the only thing on the island which is the restaurant, got some lunch and then explored the walking trail on the island. They like to call this a hike but i dont think there was an incline ever the entire way.  The plants on the island were weird cactus like things that really didnt look like they belong on a beach. It was very odd to say the least. After  back from the trail we made it back to the ferry which took us back to main land. We found some cool shops for souvenirs and a bookstore so Mitch could get Portuguese books. After shopping we made our way to Restaurante Centenario. We were the  first people there so the service was pretty good. I played it safe with a pizza and mitch got a vegitarian rice dish. Our food was very very good, much better than the night before! We got ice cream for dessert and then it back to our hostel! We left early the next  and made it safetly back to Cardiff!