Here we are, in Cape Verdi, for a week of winter/spring sunshine over Easter. We arrived yesterday afternoon from Gatwick, Kev, Mum, Linda & Me to a teeny airport on one of the Cape Verdi Island's Boa Vista.
A 2.30am alarm got us ready for the 4am drive to Gatwick, a really quick check in, then breakfast before I hit the shops! Love a bit of duty free! Chanel perfume, mascara and eyeshadows, whisky and aftershave for Kev (a new blended single malt called monkey shoulder was his whisky du jour!) and an accessory for his go-pro which if we'd bought on amazon prime one day earlier, would have cost us £20 less! But then he wouldnt have had it for the holiday! Lol! Gotta love my hubby 😘
The flight was 6 hours, not too bad, and we mainly occupied ourselves with sleeping (well it was a 2.30am wake up to go to Gatwick!) and movies on the iPad.
On arrival at the aforementioned teeny airport, we queued for passport control. I wish Id got a photo as it really struck me how much like a disney ride queue it looked!! All these people, snaking back and forward in a roofless adobe building painted in terracotta colours. We could have been queuing for the indiana jones ride at universal no problem!! Lol!
Luggage collected we went outside to board the oldest tattiest coach ever, before heading onto a dust and stone track (i cant call it a road, because it wasnt!!) dodging goats, boulders, and the very occasional vehicle coming in the opposite direction! The first 15 minutes were almost as if we were now on the Disney ride, bouncing up and down, side to side lol!
Heres the views from the window of the barren lanscape and stone strewn road!
After 15 minutes we hit a tarmac road. Now I should point out the with the exception of the airport and a few adobe house near the airport, we saw no dwellings or people on the whole of our 30 minute journey.
After 30 minutes, we noticed a golden shimmery lifesize sandcastle in the distance, right on the blue sea edge. The huge sprawling oasis is the 5* Riu Touareg, according to TA the number one hotel in Boa Vista. It looked so impressive, almost as if all the buildings had been sculpted from sand, and so at odds with the surrounding nothingness! Lol!
Check in was fairly quick and easy, Id emailed ahead and made some room requests which were all honoured, with Kev and me getting a top floor suite in the adults only section, with mum & Auntie Linda next door. The sea views are lovely from the balcony.
Heres our room - Excuse the unmade bed!
We had a drink at the bar, and I set up everyones ipad onto the free and really good wifi - Excellence resorts should take note!
A quick nap then back to the bar for pre dinner drinkies, a meal, a show and an early night.
Now, the weather is very overcast today and its extremely windy - believe me, Elnett 'brick' hold wont do any good here!!!
This morning, after breakfast, we sat in the main square, just read, caught up on facebook etc until lunchtime were I had a fabulous lunch of poppadum filled with cooked chicken and salad - seriously yum!!
So thats it, a dull first day! Lets see what tomorrow brings! BFN! X
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