The British prime minister again is in the Algarve to enjoy a respite from the heady world of politics.
David Cameron, his wife Samantha and their three children are enjoying a holiday in rented house in the Monchique area.
The Camerons posed for the expected photo opportunity in Alvor this year, rather than the usual fish market shots that has become a hallmark of their visits to Portugal with last year’s example giving the British press full opportunity for ridiculing Dave’s awkward pose and ‘same as last year’ clothing.
The leader of the Conservative Party was in the Algarve two years ago, last year he had a break in Cascais, and this year’s photo is at a bar in Alvor with the Ria de Alvor as a backdrop.
Cameron and his family this year have already been to Cornwall and to the island of Jura before heading to the Algarve for a chance of some sunlight.
The British press are unable this year to fault Dave’s chillaxing clothing choices so have focused on his footwear which apparently is a special design that helps to tone legs and burn calories.
A relaxed Cameron is expected back in London on the 15th of August to commemorate not only England’s cricketing victory over the Australians but the Allies’ victory over Japan in World War II.
Cameron's latest pain in the Commons is Nicola Sturgeon, all-powerful leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party, who also is on a brief walking holiday in the Algarve hopefully on the Via Algarviana before it reverts to a more natural state. (See: http://www.algarvedailynews.com/news/6312-via-algarviana-walking-route-abandoned-by-council-chiefs )
Sturgeon's press team said that their glorious leader is taking a break after two years of relentless work, but that “she will be keeping in daily contact with Scottish Government staff.”
Emphasising Sturgeon as tough and 'feisty,' a walking holiday in mid-August will enable her publicity advisors to relax with her image intact.
Dave, by contrast, goes for the "I understand how ordinary working families feel" approach with his happy couple setting, glass of chilled beer and a river background.
Portugal’s President Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho are expected to holiday in the Algarve as usual this year amid heavy security and the ever present fear of a member of the Algarve's anti-tolls movement CUVI gaining access to their noble personages and asking a difficult question such as ‘why keep the tolls when they costs the economy more than if the Via do Infante was free?’
