Heading into town we found a Chinese Store. They carried everything. We were hoping they would have bubble wrap for packing but they did not. We continued on to the market. It started raining and poured for less than 5 minutes. That had happened yesterday also, rain for a couple of minutes then beautiful sunshine. There were a few tourist shops at the market as well as a lot of fruit and vegetables. I bought a pineapple as our guide had told us they were the best in the world here. I have my doubts but the pineapple on the ship has not been ripe so I figured it was worth a try. They will cut it for me in the kitchen. Now I had a pineapple to carry as well as a couple of small bags and I was way too hot in a light jacket under my rain jacket so we headed back to the ship. I bought a few items in the grocery store to take back as well. Mel waited for me on the main street. He said 3 different people asked him how to get to the ship from there. It was right behind him, hard to miss. That was just weird.
We kept to the main street this time, headed to the old fort. There was a military museum inside. We went in for €1 each. There was a small room with some guns and uniforms. I thought that was it. We continued on into the fort and there was room after room of old military stuff inside. It was actually quite large. Mel was more interested than I was. It was mostly about the wars Portugal had in Angola, Mozambique and Guina in the 60's and 70's, something we know little about. From there we tried to go into a convent but it was closed. There was a square in front of it with a church on the other side. The church was covered with scaffolding. They were putting up lights for an upcoming festival. Inside the church was quite ornate. The front of the sanctuary was all covered in gold. The walls had beautiful tiles. We continued down the street in search of a restaurant. We stopped in a few stores along the way. We were still looking for bubble wrap. One store had a lot of housewares. On a shelf with some bags was a plastic bag full of bubble wrap. It looked like it had been stuffing in one of the bags. I used it to ask if they sold bubble wrap. When I had asked in the Chinese store I was directed to the bras. The check out lady said I could have it, even offered me a bag. That was nice, free bubble wrap!
We found a nice outdoor cafe. Mel had grilled octopus I had a ham and cheese sandwich on the same bread we had eaten yesterday. This sandwich was better, the cheese was melted and I put some of Mel's lettuce and tomato on it, yum. We went into another church which was also very ornate, no pictures allowed. We continued back toward the ship stopping at a few stores on the way. We made one last stop at the grocery store to buy green wine. Our guide had told us we should try it so we bought 2 bottles. It was on sale for €1.40!!! Hope it is drinkable. We are going to host a wine tasting in our cabin for our tablemates. If we take it to the table they will charge us $18 corkage fee.
Back at the pier we used wifi for a bit. I called Piper to wish her a happy 4th birthday. I think she was happy to hear from me. It will be great to see her again. We were back onboard by 3 but will go off again to use the wifi and post this. Our last port was really nice. Very glad we were able to stay overnight to see both the island and the town.
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