Up early next day to get the bus to Lagos. Watched Friends episode on the bus - when did Rachel and Ross have a baby???
Arrived at around 11am and managed to wangle a room for the three of us (including Sirena). Nice clean rooms, shared clean bathrooms, kitchen and huge balcony. Lagos a tiny sea-side town, suffering (or surviving?) from too many British package holidayers, but great to be by the sea finally. All this in-land travel is hard-going without a beach to escape the heat from!
Carlos, our hostel owner, gathered us all together on the balcony, intent on giving us loads of information about what to do in Lagos and extracting promises from us all that we would not miss the cave grottos.
Spent the rest of the day looking around the tiney town and lively city centre, checking out the good bars and shops. Everybody speaks English (more than in Spain) and we marvel at how cheap everything is. We 'snacked' on soup, tomato salad, toasted sandwiches and orange juice, all for about 5 Euro which is a pretty good deal.
Sirena due to arrive around 6pm and I texted her the train times using Racheal's phone and told her where to meet us. We calculated that if she got the 4.45 train from Faro (airport town), then she would arrive at Lagos at 6.30pm. She was bang on time and we actually fluked bumping into her as at the last minute I decided to change meeting places from the centre of town to the main road, which was just as well as she would not have found us. So happy to see a familiar face again!
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