Woops! I'm not very good at this

Hi everyone,
Guess what? All the posts that I have sent have gone into cyberspace. Apparently I have not been logging on correctly. Karen Schick, I can hear you laughing all the way from Japan. And Judy, I know what you are thinking. So, I guess I'm starting all over again. I'm assuming you've all heard that we did not have a very good start to our holiday. First Ian's iritis flared up when we were in Vancouver. We spent one day in emergency at Royal Columbian and the following day out in Chilliwack where the doctor at Royal Columbian was able to get an appt. with a specialist for Ian. We arrived in London at about 7:30 next morning and had a difficult time finding the bus to our hotel. Everyone was so helpful.(NOT!!) We were in the bar by 10:30 and things were a lot better. Next morning our flight was delayed by 45 minutes due to engine problems.( I love that) We arrived in Faro, Portugal about 10:30 in the morning to clouds and wind like you could not believe. The directions to our apartment were a bit confusing. It took us until about 3:30 in the afternoon to find the place. Guess what? NO heat. (actually we had two little plug in heaters) So the first week we wondered what we were doing here, but we used our time to explore the Algarve and saw a lot of it. Then the sun came out and the world changed! Last week we took two days to see Lisbon and loved it. I've never seen so many leather boots, purses and beautiful scarves in my life. We took an afternoon and sat at an outside cafe/bar and people watched. There were so many fashionable people mixed with so many gypsies, beggars and street vendors. Not 10 minutes would go by without someone trying to sell us sunglasses, cell phones, watches or jewellry. Albufeira is like a different country from Lisbon. Very laid back. Lots of British tourists. We've made some new friends and found a Portugese version of Michaelbrook. Marguerite is the Portugese version of Heather. She gives lots of advice and occasionally tells us where to go.(no pun intended) I must also mention that the food here is incredible! Wonderful coffee, bread and fruit. I've even discovered some good Portugese wine. Which is good because that is about all they sell.Tomorrow we head for Gibraltar.Apparently the weather will be good and on Wednesday we expect some more rain. We have decided to skip Seville (just another big city) and spend the next week here in Albufeira. Pam has just booked us into a villa in Corfu, Sicily, which looks really good , so all is going well. So, goodbye for now. Sorry to have bungled this so badly.I could'nt figure out what everyone was complaining about!  P.S. Kathy Tycho--I did send you a message, but it could be anywhere. Hope you are dong o.k. Look forward to seeing you in April and swapping stories.
Linda and Ian