It seems we are fated to find the restaurants we want to visit are closed. Yesterday we went to check on Buzio, the restaurant that surprised us by being closed on Sunday. Still closed. If there hadn’t been a notice on the door saying “aberto todos os dias” I might have thought they were just closed Sunday and Monday. That was the case with our next choice, O Cais do Heleno. They pride themselves on their fresh fish dishes. Long ago someone advised us not to order fish dishes on Mondays as the fish would not be fresh, since the boats don’t go out on Sundays. Is that still the case?Anyway, O Cais do Heleno is closed Sunday and Monday! How very annoying. Next stop: the Nucleo Sportinguista. Also closed on a Monday!
By now we had walked miles and miles. We were tired and hungry. We even got ever so slightly lost in our wanderings as we tried to find a route that did not go too steeply up hill or too directly in the sun. It was not just fine and warm: it was positively hot! Not that I’m complaining!
Eventually we found a place that called itself Prime Coffee. It advertised a menu for €8. We decided to give it a go.
The decor was interesting: murals on the walls and paintings by someone I assumed was a local artist, Meridy Volz.
We had the sopa do dia - sopa de cav - cabage soup, a soup reminiscent of the sopa de grelos served in Galicia - and filetes de pescada, Phil’s with chips and mine with salad. The portions were generous, too generous; we couldn’t eat it all. With a drink and coffee, the whole lot came to €20. And we congratulated the young lady who served us on her excellent English.
It was the kind of place where I imagine the locals go for lunch, nothing pretentious but decent food and friendly service.th
I read this morning that Gary Lineker plans to give up presenting Match of the Day at the end of the 2024-2025 season. I’ve always quite liked Gary Lineker. I also read that he earns £1.35m a year - does he really earn it? Does anyone ‘earn’ such an incredible sum. That’s what the BBC pay him though. Money is a strange business. If you earn more than a million per year, what do you do with it? Once you’ve bought an expensive car and a big house (or several) and you’ve made some investments, do you really need a huge amount of money each year? It’s no wonder some young footballers and stars get into difficulties with drugs and such like.
And it seems that once you have reached a certain level, it just keeps on accumulating. Apparently Elon Musk’s fortune, and that of others like him, went up immensely overnight when Trump won the American election. Yet there are people at the other end of the scale who cannot afford to feed their families. It’s all rather immoral.
Here’s a more or less relevant cartoon I came across.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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