Going Native – Sucking Prawn Heads 6
It was a few days ago, sitting in one of our favourite restaurants, Sabores De Ria in Cabanas, that it struck us that in some ways we are becoming “more Portuguese” after living here for nine months.
Given that the discussion was prompted by the fact we were enjoying a plate of prawns and sucking the juices from the heads as well as enjoying the meat of the prawns, we decided that in some ways we are indeed “going native.”
Here is a list of a seven ways we are becoming more “local”…..
1. As previously stated, we now suck the heads of prawns. Disgusting to some I am sure, but very tasty indeed.
Prawns
2. Still on the subject of food, our mouths seem to have developed the ability to hunt down small stray fish bones and move them to the front for discreet removal.
3. We now insist on parking as near to the hypermarket entrance as possible despite there being plenty of easier parking spaces a little further away.
4. We (finally) walk more slowly than we did in London – it’s hot.
5. It now makes perfect sense to us that people do a lot of their shopping when Brits would consider it to be “night time” – it’s hot.
6. It is fair to say we drink wine like it is water – thankfully it doesn’t cost much more than water. We also struggle to understand why anyone would order anything OTHER THAN wine to accompany a meal.
7. We are starting to get irritated by tourists – just the odd quiet five minutes in the communal pool that we have to ourselves the rest of the year would be splendid 
Not a complete transformation but some early signs. I wonder if we will be complaining that it’s cold by November when the temperatures are down to the low 20s?! Time will tell.
We have a run of a lot of work and family visits coming up over the next week or so, so I may be a little quiet for a while – I’ll be back really soon 
Photo Credit: Glen MacLarty
