The Ocean Club (OC), located in PRAIA DA LUZ (PdL), is close to a major town, LAGOS, which is in the ALGARVE, the most southern region of PORTUGAL.
The ALGARVE is served by the FARO's Airport, which has direct flights to and from the UK.
LAGOS has a MARINA, which is great to accommodate those that do like to exhibit how much money they have, which is by no means illegal or unethical, but certainly is an area where size does matter, as it has a direct proportion in WEALTH, POWER and VANITY.
LAGOS, like other ALGARVE cities with marinas, offers offshore activities like “Seafary” Cruises and Big Game Fishing.
The coastline, East of LAGOS, up to SAGRES, where PdL is inserted in, is made up of cliffs which make it one of the most interesting scenarios to be seen, and offers one of the most sought after scuba diving locations.
PdL, where the OC is located, has a rather large beach. Besides the evident enjoyment of the well known "Algarve Trilogy" (Beach/Climate/Sea) which attracts so many tourists from all over the world, it also allows the enjoyment of various watersports.
Between PdL and LAGOS, there’s the BOAVISTA GOLF COURSE (BGC).
One could even exaggerate and say that the BGC and the OC are next door neighbours. But to say that golf would is one of the OC’s major attraction, would be no exaggeration at all.
The OC Complex layout is very convenient if one would like to invest in satisfying more "peculiar" wants of special guests.
It's spread out all over PdL, so some of its facilities could be exclusively dedicated to swinging while others would remain for the “normal” tourism.
The added advantage would be that "normal area" wouldn't need to know about or contact with the "swinging area", so the so much needed and demanded discretion would be guaranteed.
PdL, being and offroad small town, with an adequate "colonization" it would be possible to ward off the less welcomed "foreigners".
If things had gone they should have gone, PdL to remain discreet and generally unknown, the only “strangers” present would be the Portuguese, as “native peasants”, either in the form of local residents or of labour, or, most likely, in both.
Repeating myself, the Ocean Club (OC), located in PRAIA DA LUZ (PdL), is close to major town, LAGOS, which is in the ALGARVE, PORTUGAL’s most southern region, and the Portuguese have a very little sexual hang-ups, and albeit a very conservative and catholic lifestyle do have a liberal mindset.
The ALGARVE in the 60's and 70's, it was one of the few places in the world where topless was done with no raising of eyebrows whatsoever.
The Portuguese consider each one’s sexual behavior as a very personal issue, so VERY rarely are there sex-scandals referred in the media.
They do exist, like in any other country, but are contained to private comment, and the usual effect is the sudden spawning of jokes about the theme or characters involved.
The OC is then located in a country very permissible and DISCREET about things such as swinging.
Only comparable to HOLLAND, or maybe BELGIUM, but far, far better in terms of weather.
A perfect location for a Swinging Club.
One EXCLUSIVE to the powerful and the rich and to those that are both.
Nothing, it seems, could be added to such perfection.
For example, to have made it more luxurious, would called for unwelcomed attention, and the scenario where and as it was set, provided full satisfaction to the type of guest that it targeted.
What could it spoil it? An earthquake could. A tsunami also.
Or, if you really want to let your imagination go wild, the death of a little girl whose corpse, time or location of death, would raise questions whose answers would compromise the lives of those present in such an atypical kind of holiday.
The MAJORITY of which had had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the little's girl's death.
But life is sarcastic, isn't it?
This is exactly why this case should be re-opened and resolved.
ReplyDeleteAt present PDL is blighted by the mccanns. The residents of PDL helped the mccanns but as a consequence of what happened tourism must have suffered in PDL and these people's businesses have also been affected I also believe many residents are bitter at how they were tricked.
Without waiting for new evidence to appear authorities should push for the re-opening of this case and get to the bottom of what really happened and why there was such a cover up with so many people willing to lie for Kate and Gerry.
What lies beneath !!!
Thanks for all your research Tex.
Começando pelo Boavista...... o Club de golf:
ReplyDeletehá muito tempo que não via referenciada a aproximação física ao O.C.
Quanto a este " perfeito paraíso para os ricos e poderosos " OU " ricos OU poderosos "?
Aqueles, que nós sabemos, vieram numa época barata e para um local, digamos, bem suportável se vierem com intenções de não gastar muito.
Ou vinham com a intenção de ficarem ricos? Já que , supostamente, têm boas relações com os ricos e poderosos ?
Um dos casais, na realidade, passa o tempo todo a apelar para mais e mais dinheiro.
O local poderia ter sido um perfeito paraíso, pois podia ; não temos nada a dizer quanto às escolhas de cada um. Não nos metemos , realmente. Cada um sabe de si e, pronto.
Infelizmente para a Madeleine tudo isto não foi sarcástico.
Infelizmente, também eu acredito que a Sua curta Vida , terminou ali.
E, temos, sim, muitas e muitas perguntas acerca do que se passou e sobre as razões que levaram a que não pudéssemos saber.
Se o objectivo passava por virem swingar..... francamente não percebo porque trouxeram os Pequeninos todos.
MC
I know swinging goes on, Louis Theroux did a TV program about it a few years ago and the people interviewed were quite happy to divulge their hobby.
ReplyDeleteIf that is a lifestyle choice and partners are happy then that is up to them.
It may have been happening in PdL and as the typical profile of a swinger is 'middle class, aged in the thirties with children, often in the medical profession'. The people in this category need somewhere to go to indulge their hobby.
The McCann party certainly didn't go to PdL for the water sports or the tennis if you look at the booking forms. They must have had plenty of time on their hands while their children were put in creches. Typical family holiday when you dispatch the kids every day so the parents are free?
The weather wasn't good, it rained, the kids were off their hands... and as they say 'the devil makes work for idle hands'.
WHAT DID THEY DO?
Maybe more relevant, who else was there joining the party?
MC,
ReplyDeleteTrouxeram os pequeninos para ludibriarem os familiares e para disfarcarem em Portugal. E assim que dizem os entendidos, funciona o Swing. Tudo muito normal para nao levantar suspeitas. E e assim, fazendo parte de um ambiente familiar normal, que os empreendimentos turisticos que o permitem promovem este tipo de ferias. Se nao fosse assim, imagine-se na pratica, as suspeitas que nao levantaria um resort so para adultos... Facilmente seria conotado com prostituicao ou encontros homossexuais e os seus clientes objecto de curiosidade por parte de quem reside na PDL ou a visita.
O swing faz parte dos clubes que se propagam de boca em boca, do genero amigo convida amigo e por isso precisa de descricao e normalidade. Mesmo os que o praticam sabem que nao estando a praticar uma ilegalidade, tem um hobby que a maioria da sociedade recrimina e estigmatiza. Mesmo as sociedades que se dizem modernas e abertas, tem no fundo o seu que de hipocrisia e conservadorismo. A sociedade inglesa e um exemplo perfeito dessa hipocrisia/conservadorismo e o grupo dos Tapas apesar de virem de uma classe social media, vem da provincia onde o conservadorismo e mais marcado por isso se explica a reaccao de Kate quando foi feita arguida: " O que e que a minha familia vai pensar?" Portanto o que os outros pensam e importante para estas pessoas.
Por outro lado, nos portugueses que sabemos como o Algarve e um deserto de turistas nas epocas baixas, e a PDL seguindo o curso normal dos acontecimentos nao seria diferente, nao nos deixamos ludibriar- Que motivos fazem um resort situado numa aldeia algarvia contratar "nannies" inglesas numa epoca baixa? so pode ser porque o resort sabe que tem um tipo de clientela garantida que nao vem a procura de sol nem dos desportos que a natureza oferece. Vem a procura daquilo que o resort oferece: descricao e encontros num ambiente familiar completamente insuspeito. E e aqui que eu penso reside o centro do cover-up. Os trabalhadores coagidos, e os clientes temerosos, todos calam o que de menos correcto viram a volta dos dias 2, 3, 4 de Maio. Nao tem medo dos Mccann, mas tem medo de ver expostos os seus nomes associados aos habitos do swing. Portanto quanto menos se tocar no assunto Madeleine, tanto melhor para eles. Nada farao para levantar a lebre.
Bom dia e , obrigada a quem me respondeu.
ReplyDeleteNa verdade os hábitos sexuais e comportamentos dos de UK sempre foram bem conhecidos. Nem que fosse através de algum , chamado, "escândalo".
Traduz realmente muita hipocrisia . Têm fama e proveito ; daí que, durante o dia representem determinados personagens e , ao chegarem à intimidade do lar , podem ser o que na realidade são.
Esta , falsa, repressão moral é completamente idiota. Só gera falsidade no caracter e na personalidade de cada um.
Esta repressão é tramada.
Então, foi assim... tiveram de trazer " um certificado do chamado bom comportamento"!
Obrigada pela explicação do encobrimento: o próprio O.C. e respectivos trabalhadores.
Pobres Crianças. Que peso tremendo que carregam sem terem noção disso ainda.
Infeliz Madeleine.
Obrigada,
MC
It is quite possible they were swingers, Gerry inviting the busty quiz girl back to their table. If they were ordinary couples enjoying a break there would be no need to invite additional female company.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing I find odd is their statements the men seem to always be together then the woman join them almost like two separate groups.
Supposing they were all swingers where does this place the Gaspars statement, were they also swingers who had become jealous of the mccanns friends hence her rather absurbed statement.
It would explain their 'pact of silence' and why staff lied in OC.
Do the Tapas group still continue this practise? if so perhaps other couples are aware of what happened to Madeleine.
The Ocean Club's public image has to be the perfect family-holiday oriented resort. The Symington family has a reputation to maintain and protect! A very traditional and honourable family, distinguished wine merchants, in Portugal for generations (since the XVIIIth cent., I think) just cannot afford to have its name connected with anything "unsavory".
ReplyDeleteMany of the people involved are connected to one another; The ocean club is not owned by Mark Warner but by the Symington family to whom Robert Murat is related.
ReplyDeleteRupert Symingting attended Oxford University with David Milliband and other high ranking MPs.
Clarence Mitchell took on the post of PR representative for mccanns for his own personal ambition, its all about PR.
It was reported in Portuguese newspapers that Murat and Gerry were friends and had campaigned together for the labour party in Leicester long before 2007.
Why were Kate and Gerry allowed to solicite funds from the public for their limited company when they knew their daughter was already dead.
These people should all be re-investigated and the PR nonsense that is Kate and Gerry mccann stopped.
Someone that I told you before send me this:
ReplyDeleteLatitud 37· 5´4,66"N
Longitud 8· 43´48"0
Check if you find something odd and let me know who wrote that in the google map, which I believe was made for geographic information and not for the McCann's campaign for distracting people from what really has happened....
Let contact google maps and suggest them to replace the word disappearance by death! How dare them? McCanns are like a cancer in a IV level, they are everywhere- even on google maps! Radiation please!
Anon. Feb 9 12:42,
ReplyDeleteLet me guess... was the same spanish lady? What is your agenda?
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