Arrived in our first two hotel rooms we recognized that we only had about an hour left till the begin of the breakfast. We used the time to play together “Green Stories”. Marc and Sheepy emreged as real experts on this field.
Dead on time (as german as possible ;)) we went to the doors of the breakfast halls at half past 6. In there was a breakfast buffet we could not have dreamed of. The term international breakfast correspondends really well: There are cakes, cookies, scrambled eggs, bread, cheese, ham, fruits, yoghurt, … We ate really well till erveryone was satisfied. Afterwards we wanted to explore the beach a bit more. So everyone got “beach ready” and went over the road. The sea was warm and clean so we spend some time in it before we lay down on the beach to dry. After everyone had showered away the salt and the flight, we had our first team meeting at the hotel pool, cooling the feet in the water.

Then we began some work. However, the tiredness took its toll, after all we had been more than 24 hours en route. So we spend the time till 2 pm with differing productivity. The chaos at the real check-in got everyone awake again. Although we only booked single beds, we got some double beds. The communication on how to change that proved difficult. As we expected after our experience in Mexico, nearly no one in the hotel speaks English. And our Portugese is despite Jessicas vocabulary cheat sheet only more or less adeqauate for the grocery. A cleaner was our salvation, as she understands English and with additional help of hands and feet we did successfull communication. We used the alteration time of our rooms to do our grocery shopping. A tourist information with three friendly and very good English speaking women was a great help with finding a supermarket. And we meet a lot of helpfulness at other times as well: At the attempt to change money (which unfortunately was only possible from Real in Euro or Dollar) a child of an employee jumped in as a translator.
The following effort to find a restaurant proved more difficult than expected, as there was no combination of vegetarian and cheap meals findable. Given that we were quite hungry, we finally settles on the other side of the world at McDonalds.

On the way back we did the first big grocery shopping: Water, Bread, cold meat, cheese,… Furthermore we discovered a market where there were a lot of exotic fruits. We bought grapes, bananas and a mango, as well as pepper and limes and received two fruits as a gift, that we had never seen before. Back in the hotel we googled that they were a custard apple and a Caju. Some of the grocery was then eaten on the hotel roof with a view to the sea and the beach promenade. And then finally after a long, long (did I say long?) day, we went to bed, to begin a more productive day on friday at 6:30 a.m after some good sleep.