Hi Victor & Phil
Congratulations on a FB SOTA expedition to NW Portugal and Spain. It has been great fun chasing you.
73
Nick
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I have enjoyed following your expedition and chasing you both where possible work and conditions permitting. Safe journey home.
73ās
Ian
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Thanks for all the contacts. Always nice to work one of you 2 guys.
Save home.
73 - Tonnie - PA9CW
Thanks for all the contacts both. Enjoy the journey home.
73 Allan
Thank you both for the visit and the contatcs, hope to see you back, soon.
Paulo, CT2IWW
Yeah Thanks for all the contacts you two been good
Best 73
Many thanks from me also, you both worked very hard with long days. Hopefully, Iāll be crossing over into France/Spain next spring and plan to do a few gentle activations but it wonāt be anything like as concentrated as your trip are there is Mrs M0WIV to keep entertained. 
Thanks for the fun over the past week following your tour. Got most of the summits with both of you. Missed todayās finale due to an eye appointment. 73 de Damian
Thanks to all the chasers for the multitude of calls over the last 10 days. It has been a great tour with 40 summits activated, but all good things come to an end.
Phil is now on the plane back to G land and I am relaxing in a very nice hotel at Porto Airport, I fly back to EI tomorrow and then home to GI.
We have really enjoyed our time in Portugal, the people here have been very friendly and hospitable. The weather has been superb other than a little rain on the first 2 mornings, but at least it was warm rain 
73 Victor CT7/G4ONL, soon to be GI4ONL
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Lovely country and vy nice people!
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How did you get on with the language? Written down it looks like Spanish but it sounds nothing like it.
Portuguese is easy. The most important phrase is
thank you: obrigada
Then you need the following which is all Iāve ever needed
Large beer please?: cerveja grande por favor?
Another large beer please?: outra cerveja grande por favor?
Hi honey, can I buy you a drink?: Oi querida, posso te pagar uma bebida?
Get the lady what she asked for please.: Pegue a senhora o que ela pediu por favor.
Iām sorry I didnāt know she was your wife/girlfriend!: Me desculpe, eu nĆ£o sabia que ela era sua esposa / namorada
I donāt feel very well, Iām going to be sick.: NĆ£o me sinto muito bem, vou vomitar.
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I have the basics in several languages.
Order first beer.
Order subsequent beers.
Beyond that I struggle other than the specialist vocabulary required to book into a campsite.
Food can be bought in supermarkets without linguistic gymnastics.
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We had no major problems, sign language is wonderful, i.e. point at something then indicate with your fingers how many, simples 
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Hello Phil, hello Victor,
Phil, Iām happy that I caught you on your very last activation S2S in cw. I was once not on one of my local summits 
, but on DM / NS-165 with Uwe, DK8OA and my brother Detlef, SWL
On this activation we have used not mine but the new paddle product by Sebastian Stetter, DJ5SE. It works very well.
Enjoy your home, 73 Chris
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Many thanks for the contacts Phil and Victor. The propagation did not always favour the path between us and I had restrictions on my shack time, but it was good to make the contacts we did. 38 summits in just 9 days is an impressive achievementā¦ it makes the 20 in 7 days that Paul G4MD and I did some years ago look like we included pub time in our itineraries. 
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Actually, 40 summits Gerald 
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Thatās an amazing result, boys! Philās pacemaker seems to work really well and he is clearly in good shape. Both of you are.
Iām glad that you had such a great time in Portugal and Spain and so much success with your many activations.
I could only chase you 5 times to each of you on 20, 30 and 40m, sometimes due to my unavailability and sometimes to propagations conditions not very favourable to me.
Well, I hope you both had a good flight back home and I guess youāll now get a well deserved rest.
Iāll be looking forward to chasing you again soon.
73,
Guru
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