<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646617447222120818</id><updated>2026-04-08T19:12:54.882+01:00</updated><category term="Algarve"/><category term="Sunday post"/><category term="flowers"/><category term="Garden Bloggers Bloom Day"/><category term="garden"/><category term="northern Portugal"/><category term="Algarve beaches"/><category term="dogs"/><category term="Nature"/><category term="architecture"/><category term="Cee&#39;s fun foto challenge"/><category term="unexpected"/><category term="ceramic tiles"/><category term="culture"/><category term="trees"/><category 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term="salada"/><category term="sand"/><category term="sentimental value"/><category term="separation anxiety"/><category term="shortlist"/><category term="signs"/><category term="silence"/><category term="simplicity"/><category term="snakes"/><category term="solid"/><category term="sunrise"/><category term="surroundings"/><category term="tangerine blossom"/><category term="textures"/><category term="tips"/><category term="tornado"/><category term="toys"/><category term="traffic police"/><category term="transport"/><category term="unique"/><category term="urban design"/><category term="violence"/><category term="visitors"/><category term="weight"/><category term="window"/><category term="wishes"/><category term="wood"/><category term="workplace relations"/><title type='text'>Africa to Algarve</title><subtitle type='html'>An English teacher&#39;s notes on growing up in Africa and life in the Algarve</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://africatoalgarve.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/646617447222120818/posts/default?max-results=5&amp;redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://africatoalgarve.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/646617447222120818/posts/default?start-index=6&amp;max-results=5&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Mara Paz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08830998547445582411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' 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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;A new addition to the garden&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;An older resident&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikF4F-DL9S8rHesOCdKXdVamJ1Myf5WNURQdzZIwA_inkH77dk7gpoQvN3qSmhJyLmxi1EETMxoe_SBWC2neBtfyimVMOe8ik1pJ_q32lCJRaW7qY-PhhngLqnH4OciP4ai11uWPYcATv8/s1600/IMG_9110.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;red roses and lavender&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;513&quot; data-original-width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;512&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikF4F-DL9S8rHesOCdKXdVamJ1Myf5WNURQdzZIwA_inkH77dk7gpoQvN3qSmhJyLmxi1EETMxoe_SBWC2neBtfyimVMOe8ik1pJ_q32lCJRaW7qY-PhhngLqnH4OciP4ai11uWPYcATv8/s640/IMG_9110.JPG&quot; title=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Roses and lavender&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Oleander in a huge container&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Variegated oleander&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkbjvTn9OOHCRlqdD0luYyICMWSICmE5yHyTr2T8OhrlHawU8LsWo6r_Jbxoual8tdsnK-iN5T8CR-GSoC2rxg22UsKK3L7SldSIknoeK4MsIEKNl75YSorvZxQGHqYs7qyvPvf_bo0bo/s1600/IMG_20161225_104445.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;460&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkbjvTn9OOHCRlqdD0luYyICMWSICmE5yHyTr2T8OhrlHawU8LsWo6r_Jbxoual8tdsnK-iN5T8CR-GSoC2rxg22UsKK3L7SldSIknoeK4MsIEKNl75YSorvZxQGHqYs7qyvPvf_bo0bo/s640/IMG_20161225_104445.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I apologize for the terrible photo but I wanted something original and you have no idea how hard I worked to get this onto my computer. I took it on my smartphone this morning because I finally realized I must have left my camera at the north house. Then I discovered that my smartphone isn&#39;t talking to my laptop (via bluetooth or wi-fi). This is the best I can do without expert help.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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