Merry Christmas

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Hope you are all having a lovely festive season with loved ones....we are in Portugal still getting rounder by the spoonful :-) We had a glorious Christmas with loads of food, presents, port wine (which by the way is our port wine that we made for our wedding and is turning out to be a real vintage!)
I got loads of 'coffee table' books on Portugal as requested, a lovely dress and the biggest surprise from Amandio - he's crazy! (in a good sense :-) - a pretty big ruby ring! Gosh, I was pretty gobsmacked and touched... a beautiful single red ruby with three small diamonds on each side (bought in Thailand) but unfortunately it is too small... so I hope that we can exchange it for a bigger one when we get back.
We are slowly coming to terms with the fact that our month holiday is coming to an end. The saddest part is that we don't know when the next time will be. Usually there is always something planned (weddings, Christmas, summer hols). This time we don't know if the stork will prevent travel in the future, if Amandio can get holidays etc. We are spending New Years in Lisbon and I am looking forward to seeing Sandra and finally get to meet her new son Rafael. We are then off to Thailand on the 1st.
The next mark in my calendar is a visit from Isla who is making her way (slowly - one month tour in South East Asia and another three weeks with her mother touring India) back to Scotland from Sydney. Hopefully there will be a few more trips to resorts with Amandio's work on the horizon. I wouldn't mind some more sun and beach after a month in the cold (relative of course :-)
Happy New Year.