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Heading out on friday for 10 days.Weather looks great.

Andrew wrote: Posting at silly o'clock? Must be us then, see you in a bit! 😉

Andrew, I see your silly o'clock, and raise you!!!

see you soon Albufeira

Just returned last Friday (yesterday)Had already booked for next June or this would have been my last visit. The Reason ? maybe not the best reason for most, but as a smoker I use my two visits per year to stack up on tobacco. When we first visited Albufeira in 2007, 50gm of tobacco cost around 3.80 euro. Just a few years later and it now costs 13.50 euro per 50gm. Basically money saved on my yearly baccy bill paid for the second holiday. I can now buy it (yes bootleg)in any pub for less than you have to pay in Portugal (It has gone up in Portugal by 2.5 euro per 50gm in last 12 months alone) I understand the Country needs the taxes but overpricing compared to other tourist countries could in the long run have a detrimental effect by cutting the number of visitors. Maybe I need to pack in smoking !!!! or start visiting Greece etc

cameroncleggout wrote: Just returned last Friday (yesterday)Had already booked for next June or this would have been my last visit. The Reason ? maybe not the best reason for most, but as a smoker I use my two visits per year to stack up on tobacco. When we first visited Albufeira in 2007, 50gm of tobacco cost around 3.80 euro. Just a few years later and it now costs 13.50 euro per 50gm. Basically money saved on my yearly baccy bill paid for the second holiday. I can now buy it (yes bootleg)in any pub for less than you have to pay in Portugal (It has gone up in Portugal by 2.5 euro per 50gm in last 12 months alone) I understand the Country needs the taxes but overpricing compared to other tourist countries could in the long run have a detrimental effect by cutting the number of visitors. Maybe I need to pack in smoking !!!! or start visiting Greece etc

Well in 2 years time, or whenever when we Brexit, you're allowance will drop down to normal duty free quantities of 250g of tobacco & 200 cigarettes and it will not make any difference what ever Country you go to.

cameroncleggout wrote: Just returned last Friday (yesterday)Had already booked for next June or this would have been my last visit. The Reason ? maybe not the best reason for most, but as a smoker I use my two visits per year to stack up on tobacco. When we first visited Albufeira in 2007, 50gm of tobacco cost around 3.80 euro. Just a few years later and it now costs 13.50 euro per 50gm. Basically money saved on my yearly baccy bill paid for the second holiday. I can now buy it (yes bootleg)in any pub for less than you have to pay in Portugal (It has gone up in Portugal by 2.5 euro per 50gm in last 12 months alone) I understand the Country needs the taxes but overpricing compared to other tourist countries could in the long run have a detrimental effect by cutting the number of visitors. Maybe I need to pack in smoking !!!! or start visiting Greece etc

Why not pack the fags or ciggies in, then you could afford your second visit and as for buying blag ciggies in pubs you are only putting your health at risk cos you have idea what you are smoking, get real and enjoy your holidays on the Algarve

always fancied coming over for New Years......... so just booked it, party time!

Oh dear! Snowed or flooded in by the looks of the UK forecasts this morning. Poor you. Nice and sunny here but next week is going to be cold (relatively speaking) here.

I'm coming over in February, first time for me so early in the year, is anything on?