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#110: October 21, 2011, 03:12:09 AM
I wish you were here too, Mitzpah!!! But we'll be thinking of you.

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Re: Autumn LBS get together in Portugal
#111: October 21, 2011, 06:45:31 AM
Have a WONDERFUL time everyone!  :)
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Re: Autumn LBS get together in Portugal
#112: October 21, 2011, 06:51:55 AM
Have a great time everyone!

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Re: Autumn LBS get together in Portugal
#113: October 22, 2011, 12:17:37 AM
I picked up Stayed and her H just after lunch, and found the rest of the LBS still on the hotel's rooftop terrace, in the sun, talking, where they seemed to stay most of the day. I caught up with them again after classes in the city centre.

We went to an old café with life music, and at least three of us danced (although we were pursued by a smelly man with a huge hairy beard who kept on wanting to dance with us. First he caught Stayed, then Voyager, but I every time he tried to grab me, I turned and shimmied away...

To the Port wine caves and the beach today, if the weather holds up...
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Re: Autumn LBS get together in Portugal
#114: October 22, 2011, 04:39:29 AM
I have EXPECTATIONS of pictures!!!!!!!
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Re: Autumn LBS get together in Portugal
#115: October 22, 2011, 06:40:54 AM
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I have EXPECTATIONS of pictures!!!!!!!

Do you mean of the smelly man with the hairy beard ?  :-\  :-[  ???

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Re: Autumn LBS get together in Portugal
#116: October 22, 2011, 04:50:18 PM
I have pictures but not of the smelly bearded one..but shall to wait until I return to the US to post.
It has been wonderful..thank you Mermaid!!!!!!!
Being with this group is an awesome experience with memories that shall remain with me forever.
Portugal is beautiful and the food and wine is wonderful.
Missing you all on the site...a little too busy to catch up these days.
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Re: Autumn LBS get together in Portugal
#117: October 22, 2011, 05:03:46 PM
Another great day, although it didn't go as planned.

I drove into Porto in my H's 9-seater Defender jeep (aka bone shaker), but by the time I got there it was almost lunchtime, so we had a coastal tour of Porto and Gaia, before stopping for a Sangria-soaked lunch. This was followed by a walk on the beach, with the Viking Voyager and Mermaid skipping waves and getting soaked in the process.

Hours sitting on rocks deep in conversation followed, until we realised that the Port wine caves had closed. So it was time another city tour in the bone shaker before returning to the hotel for more wine, and a dinner served rather too slowly.

Home again, the weekend almost over... it's flown by, and this group is full of the most amazing, wonderful, funny individuals. If only we could realise more deeply that we need men like fish need bicycles...

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Re: Autumn LBS get together in Portugal
#118: October 22, 2011, 05:15:54 PM
Quote from: Mermaid on October 22, 2011, 05:03:46 PM
If only we could realise more deeply that we need men like fish need bicycles...

What do you mean by this, Mermaid?

Glad to know all went well and that you guys had a good time.
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Re: Autumn LBS get together in Portugal
#119: October 23, 2011, 01:04:03 AM
I would like to thank Mermaid for a wonderful time, it is a beautiful city and of course the company was second to none. As it was a small group it was great as we all got to chat and listen to each other and it was fantastic to see Dragon Fly, Stayed and XZYZ from our Lux trip and to meet V & Mermaid for the first time, although I was a bit worried about the two of them so near the sea  8)

Our Jeep safari yesterday was great and as our flight is later this evening we have another day to explore some unseen sights. It is so good that us LBS can come together and support each other in these meets, I think this is what makes this site so special :)
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