Virus

peteknopp wrote: Interesting piece in local press suggesting most over 60's will be jabbed by end of June and that 94% (ish) deaths have been in that age group

That's good to know but it still seems quite a slow roll out. Most European countries with the same vaccine supply will be aiming to be a fair bit ahead of that I think, first jabs in over 60's by mid/end May and over 40's by end June or thereabouts.

Problems here seems to be lack of pairs of hands, lack of suitable mass vaccination centres (those here opened only last week)  plus the lack of certainty over which of the various vaccine options was 'safe'. According to local press, 166,000 teachers have just been done as the schools fully reopened last week.

Yesterday I used the new on line registration system to book a vaccination appointment for 5th May. I don't really want one but, in order to be able to travel out of Portugal later this year, it would appear to be required.

Interesting address, Rua Baden Powell.  Had he or the Scouts any connection with Albufeira?

Restrictions lifting has been brought forward to tomorrow, though not 100% back to normal. 

Street names ... plucked from almost anywhere .. apart from Baden Powell, virtually everything in Alto Calicos is after scientists, medics, etc .. pretty sure Marie Curie and Albert Einstein were never here either.  I was studying names when I watched an edition of `Quem quer ser o millionario` and realised I knew some of the alternatives ... names of poets and writers around Areias Sao Joao, perhaps best known locally is Camilo Castelo Branco (runs up the hill parallel to Rua Dunfermline) who wrote an incredible amount of stuff .. statue by the library, on the way to stadium, in VRSA. The strip .. Sa Carneiro .. was a short-term PM just after liberation. There`s the usual famous, like Prince Henry, Trees, Flowers, Birds ... there is a Thrush street just behind Belavista .. Tordo .. running up around the old putting garden ... another is Sparrow street .. Pardais .. and the blue/green bus route is Seagull street .. Gaivote.