Thinking about Golf and Cooler Places

It is hot in August in Lisbon, but it is also the month that a large majority of people in Portugal take their month long holidays. Shops will put out signs and say they are closed from this day to that day - usually covering at least two weeks or more. Our little neighborhood market was opened today but as of tomorrow they will be closed until the end of the month, and last night we went in and said, "Boas Férias" to our friendly clerks. We already miss these people and the hot rolls they sell every day : ) 

It is also strange for our "American" minds to think that they would just close up shop and miss all the sales that would come from the store being open.

Today we went driving around to see if we could find the golf course near our neighborhood. We drove in congested Friday traffic, took a few wrong turns, but found it at last. Some courses are better than others but Don would just like to play sometime. Well, this is August and once again we found that this place has "holiday hours" and you just can't walk up and play anytime.

Well, seeing this course today brought back happy memories of days of golf in Pennsylvania and reminded us that even though we had very long, hard, cold winters at least for awhile it was cool and beautiful ; )

We are finding though like Paul, that we can be content in all situations and even grateful for variety. But it would be nice for Don if he could play somewhere as it has been well over a year since he played and he would just like to play somewhere.