Flash flood roads and a thunderstorm in the Algarve!!!!

Today we found a smaller beach to try to visit, but we had to drive about 5 minutes down a dirt road to access the beach between 2 sand cliffs. As we were driving a heavy thunderstorm hit the coast and dumped a lot of rain in a short period of time. The dirt road had a flash flood while we drove down and had fast flash flood rivers created the flowed down the road to the beach. We quickly went down to check it out and decided to come back up before the road got completely washed out.  Aneta took a pretty cool video of me driving up the dirt road with the flash flood rivers coming down hard.

While it was bad weather for the next 2 hours we went to the small fishing town of Olhos D'Agua to visit the waterfront cafes and shops. Ended up having a beer and hanging out.

We ended up going back to that beach later. Its official name is Praia das Belharucas. 

Riu Palace Algarve kids play area

Short Hike

We went on a short hike to the top of one of the cliffs to get a great view of the beach near our hotel.

On a side note the Portugal vs USA World Cup game is one at 11 pm Algarve time. The hotel has a huge conference room set up with a large TV where you can watch every game.  Should be a good atmosphere.

Here is a photo from the cliff!!

Praia de Falesia

Praia de Falesia

Tyya hanging out at Praia de Falesia in southern Portugal.
You have to walk down the red cliffs to get to the beach.

Riu Palace Algarve, Portugal

Just checked in to our first stop on our Portugal adventure at the Riu Palace Algarve.  It took us just over 2 hours to drive from the Lisbon airport to the southern Algarve. It was about 300 kms away.

Our room overlooks the sea and cliffs off the beach.  There is a small fishing village just below the cliffs.

We got to the resort late today so we just went into town to the supermarcado to get Tyya some milk and fruit.  We just got back from dinner and Tyya is already asleep.

Here is Tyya enjoying her own private balcony overlooking g the sea and the kids playground with a slide. (Her fav)

This is Tyya's 4th trip and her 4th country.  She is well on her way to visiting as many countries and continents as possible.   She's already addiction to it!!!

I will shoot out another blog tomorrow as well.

Chillin in the evening after my conference!

Lago Mar Resort and Spa. Fort Lauderdale