The Soundtrack of your LifeChe Grimsdale writes: Now that Simon Cowell's stolen Everybody Hurts, tell us about songs that mean something to you - good, bad, funny or tragic, appropriate or totally inappropriate songs that were playing at key times.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 13:30)
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brillGreat story. Click. One word of warning about the Algarve though. I am sure it was fantastic back then, but now it is crawling with dreadful expat cunts and the golfcourse resorts have taken over, replacing lots of the semi-beautiful scrubland with vapid, alien, permanently green lifeless landscaping.
They spray everywhere with pesticides, the locals don't know whether to hate or love the foreign influx, and many a villa or run-down hovel has 'vende se' daubed on it, as some locals eye up a fast buck trying to sell gran's old place.
Salema beach is nice, and the coastline is dramatic, but a cherished idyll? Hmm. I have been there five times. My uncle owns a place. Trying not to go back this summer...
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Cheers for the updateWe were planning a week in Lisbon and then a week somewhere less busy - may just find somewhere on the Silver Coast for week two.
It never really pays to 'go back' does it?
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