Despite it not being an official holiday here in Portugal, everybody seemed to be in a holiday mood... so much so that I was the only person who turned up for work (at my place of work, that is... not in the whole of Portugal). Realising the error of my ways, I finished what I was doing and went back to the flat to divest myself of the heavy laptop computer and get myself ready for an afternoon in the sun beside the sea in the company of a very lovely and interesting lady, Anabela Gabriel-Astrom. The sun shone, it was warm, and there were people on the beach! Anabela and I took a stroll along the promenade between Cascais and Estoril, stopping every now and then to take photographs and sit in cafes. Much better than sitting in an empty office staring at a computer screen.