R*n 616: Carvoeiro

A Lenten pilgrimage to Portugal leading to Salvation in Carvoeiro

Unlike most hashers, Layby & Highway took an Over-land and Over-sea route to Carvoeiro.

We suffered the tribulations of sea-sickness, fatigue, continuous rain, and a total failure of the SatNav system. (We had neglected to pack Sir Tom Tom in the boot of our car.)

Even the morning of our first hashing day was marred by morning mists, threats of rain and cold nights.

Why do Algarve Hashers r*n in the afternoon, when the sun is so hot, we all asked.

Salvation came when the beer arrived, and simultaneously the rain stopped, not to return for the entire week of our joint hashing in the Algarve!

Hashing is obviously Blessed by God.

This was confirmed when our arrival on the notoriously dry Spanish coast was Heralded by thunderstorms. Clearly a Sign from Above.

I was asked to write up  only our Friday Hash and to list all the Down Downs in precise detail, but Bubbles has failed to send me the required spreadsheet, so I will only describe the route.

We proceeded down a very familiar road as far as Bubbles Bar, where he once again failed to buy us a drink. We the short-cutted to the beach by board-walks and steps,then failing to jump into the welcome cooling sea but instead hashing straight across the sand to more steps and more steps and more more steps.

Arriving at the top of the cliffs we  ran past Madge & Syd's Time share without a pause for refreshment (Wise of Them) then arrived at a totally anonymous beer stop in a back lane where nobody could spot us drinking beer in the afternoon.

They plied us with oranges instead of beer as oranges were being given away free, unlike beer.

Further suburban rambles brought us back to the beach we crossed earlier, then our hares tried to get us to fall off the cliffs by strategic use of precipitous paths back to the hotel. This ruse failed and we all made to back to the home circle with plenty of beer left for the numerous aforementioned Down Downs.

And so to home, by various routes and various different means.

I think we should hash in the Algarve again.

ON ON to a Luny Spring,

Highway