Hunger for chocolate

     The hotel serves breakfast, crusty rolls and cheese, yogurt, muesli and a dark liquid  pretending to be coffee. It's not a meal you get out of bed eager to rush downstairs to. 

    The main meal of the day in Portugal is a late lunch. It's heavy going.  A big, hot meal in the middle of the day is not a custom we're going to adopt.  After serving dinner-at-lunchtime, restaurants close until 7:00 at night. 

     So what are you to do when breakfast wears off and you're hungry mid-afternoon?   Ah, there's a most excellent solution to that problem! The pastelerias!  Pastry shops!

   

    

Now, some people unaccountably prefer the flakey little custard filled tarts, but OMG, the Nutella filled croissants! I struggle not to moan and end up reenacting the restaurant screen in "When Harry Met Sally".   They're that good.