Fry up

[pete-flint]

Harrys Bar, Ida does a great fry up

You mean breakfast, not a fry up, I dunno! how many more times.

Cranky git.

[pato]

They're only called fry ups in a village, in a town it's breakfast!

[pete-flint]

Answered it yourself Dave, it's a fry-up. As it says at the top of the page/screen "Carvoeiro,com a village in the Algarve".

[pato]

Answered it yourself Dave, it's a fry-up. As it says at the top of the page/screen "Carvoeiro,com a village in the Algarve".

Sucker! It's classified as a town and that's official,

[pete-flint]

Definition of a town :-
A built-up area with a name, defined boundaries, and local government, that is larger than a village and generally smaller than a city:

Definition of a village :-
A small municipality with limited corporate powers.

I know where I'll be having scran.

[bruce]

Pato is right, as much as we all love the term 'village' Carvoeiro is officially a town.

[pete-flint]

Answered it yourself Dave, it's a fry-up. As it says at the top of the page/screen "Carvoeiro,com a village in the Algarve".

Sucker! It's classified as a town and that's official,

Officialdom.

[tricky]

Here we go again....... Let's all call Carvoeiro a 'settlement' then and stop the recurring debate

[Bruce Wallis]

Get a life you pedantic lot..............

I live in a small town in Norfolk....the village of Wroxham
Tricky lives in a medium sized town in Cheshire, which when I lived in that area was always known as the "village of Wilmslow"
I have friends living in Hampstead, in London, known as the "Heath" or the "Village".

My point?

Most communities start off life as a hamlet or a village, but then grow in size and status, but quite often, irrespective of current official status, are still affectionately known by the residents, as "The village".

So many of us residents, or part time residents, quite happily, and affectionately, refer to this seaside suburb of the town of Lagoa, as "The village".

And we stick 2 fingers up at you pedants!!

[bruce]

Really getting your knickers in a twist on this one Brucie baby, calm down all this stress is not good at your age!

[widge]

Tetchy

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[pete-flint]

Certainly going to town on this village thing, just to find out who makes a dogs dinner out of a breakfast. I'm getting the makings from Intermarch and making my own.

P.S.
Who sells the best sausage in the area ?

[sunman]

Here we go again....... Let's all call Carvoeiro a 'settlement' then and stop the recurring debate

It would seem that the correct way to describe Carvoeiro is to call it a "Civil Parish" in the municipality of Lagoa,

but if you read the history it seems it was originally a 'Caboiere' ( a hamlet of fishermen), became an independent parish in 1985, (a year after I first visited, I'm pleased to have had a year in 'the hamlet' , and raised to the status of 'town' in 2001, presumably when Lagoa was designated a 'city'.

Lagoa has 6 parishes, all designated 'towns'; Carvoeiro, Estombar, Ferragudo, Lagoa, Parchal & Porches.

People that don't know much about The Algarve, let alone Carvoeiro, still associate Portugal with Lisbon & Mateus Rose, when we lived there and people asked where we lived we'd answer, "Carvoeiro, it's a holiday town in the South Coast", I'm looking forward to updating this to "Carvoeiro, an old Fishermen's hamlet on The Algarve Coast"

[SJ & RE]

We tell everyone its a place similiar to Lyme Regis in stature, with a beach, hills, shops loads of places to eat 'n drink, hills, lots of nice natives,on the South Coast, hills, a great place to live and watch the world go by and hills.

[JackyD]

Sorry, a bit off the point of fry ups, but I agree Baggysallyjane, Carvoeiro is similar to Lyme Regis. My sister lives there and there and you can only get out of the town by going up a hill.