it may be relevant as to the time the playground (and the Gerry portion of Last Pic) were taken.

The clothes show a good possibility of being taken upon their arrival.

Gerry and Kate claim it was about 3.00pm.

Jane and a few others claim it was midday.

They seem to avoid mention of going to the pool area though ROB claims it was 'mid afternoon'(which matches Last Photo timing)

My opinion is the McCanns were mentioning 3.00pm to avoid the possibility of the pool pic being taken that day.

Why did everyone else seem to claim lunchtime that they arrived?

Just a curiosity I thought I would add...

http://themaddiecasefiles.com/post524.html#p524

[quote] Gerald Patrick McCann, on the 10th of May 2007, at 3.20 p.m.
After completing the check-in at the main reception, where they were dropped off by [color=#BF0000]the mini-bus, which lasted until 15h00, they went to the apartment where they unpacked their bags, which lasted 16h45[/color]. Pointing out that after check-in, the trip with the bags to the apartment was made on a mini-bus that belonged to the resort.

Subsequently, at around [color=#BF0000]17h00, the whole group, including children, went to the TAPAS restaurant,[/color] located at the back of the apartment, next to the pool, to attend a welcoming committee arranged by MARK WARNER, where they met the tennis and sailing instructors, and other resort employees, which ended at around 18h30, several glasses of sangria having been served to them.

[color=#BF0000]That that was the first time they all walked together inside and around the resort[/color]. They left by the front door, which he locked with the key, he walked around the existing wall and turned right, going down the resort’s side road up to the secondary reception, where they entered without difficulty , although they had an access card, which was not requested from them and that they had been given during Check-in.

After they passed through the secondary reception, they went to the TAPAS restaurant, next to one of the swimming pools,[color=#BF0000] the adults having sat down in a covered area outside, while the children stayed next to the small pool playing on the playground that was there. That during this time all the adults stood up and went to watch the children near where they were. The deponent and his wife took turns watching[/color].[/quote]

[quote]KATE
After the trip, the meeting point was in Portugal, at the Ocean Club, where the witness's group arrived on [color=#BF0000]Saturday April 28th at around 3pm [/color]from Faro airport in an airport mini bus. The other group arrived on the same day, late morning.[/quote]

[quote]Jane Tanner
4078 "Okay. What time of day was it when you arrived in Portugal?”
Reply "It was about lunch time, I think it was about eleven, ten, eleven, ten, eleven o’
clock.”

I think that was
sort of about four o’ clock down in the, it was actually in the tapas restaurant where
they did that welcome meeting so I think we went down to that, to that afterwards,
but I can’t, I can’t remember what we did specifically in the time in between. I think
we just had something to eat and just I think we were in Dave and Fi’s apartment,
but.

[color=#BF0000]They arrived at Faro airport at 10:00[/color]. They went to the "Ocean Club" tourist complex in Praia da Luz-Lagos in a Mark Warner bus.

As for the Payne and McCann couples, they journeyed by plane from East Midlands to Faro, having arrived around 11h00. [color=#BF0000]They took a taxi from Faro to Luz arriving at 12h00 also on 28 May.[/color]
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4078 "And I think I asked when the rest of the group arrived.”
Reply "Yeah, I think [color=#BF0000]it was about an hour and a half, an hour and a half, two hours after,
after we’d arrived.[/color] I think we’d just been to the Supermarket and just had a wander
around and they, and then they pulled up outside the apartments and they were
brought up in one of the actual Mark Warner minibuses, I think they were taken to
the reception first and then brought up.”[/quote]
[quote]FIONA PAYNE

They arrived in Portugal on April 28th at around 12 noon, coming from Leicestershire via Faro and finally to Praia da Luz. From Faro to the Ocean Club, they traveled in an airport mini-bus.

1485
“Okay. What time was your flight?”

Reply
“Tut, phew”.

1485
“Can you remember?”

Reply
“It was morning. Erm, I remember being up early. Tut, I’d guess around ten o’clock, something like that. I, I really can’t remember”.

Erm, the others were all ready there, i.e. [color=#BF0000]Matt and Rachael and Russ and Jane, they arrived a couple of hours before us, erm, it might have even been longer, I’m just trying to think of the time, it was certainly sort of nearer teatime by the time we got there and I think they’d arrived somewhere lunchtime[/color], so they’d already had a bit of an afternoon there. Erm, and then when we got there we’d all sort of sat out on our balcony for a bit and just had a drink and a catch up, erm, with all the kids.[/quote]

[quote]Dianne Webster
The deponent arrived in Portugal on [color=#BF0000]April 28th at around 12.20/12.30 from Leicestershire to Faro and then to Praia da Luz[/color]. From Faro to the Ocean Club they used the airport's shuttle service

 I think the flight was about nine thirty or something in the morning. Err I think the, the flight, I’m trying to think it was a, maybe a bit later in the evening I can’t quite remember but there was nothing untoward, you know, it was just a normal err journey there. Err when we arrived at you know at, in Portugal

when we arrived at the holiday resort err Jane and Russell and, and Matt and Rachael were already there, [color=#BF0000]they’d arrived earlier, a couple of hours before us [/color][/quote]

[quote]MATTHEW
so we arrived there on the err the Saturday and [color=#BF0000]it’s all very vague [/color]I have to say, we did, we did err we all met up at the Ocean Club, I’m trying to think where it was, err because it was the beginning of a, of a new weeks holiday makers if you like they, they err Mark Warner err would, would give a run down on what’s available and all this so I think we all gathered err I’m sure it was in the, in the, was it the Tapas err down by the pool area

 [color=#BF0000]we must have arrived around lunchtime [/color]because there was an issue about where are we going to eat, are we going to get food, and I think on that first day we popped down to the Supermarket, there was a Supermarket just down the street, as you may be aware, to just sort of get snacks and things, because I think the Tapas Bar doesn’t open, wasn’t open on that transfer day, so we’d have probably sort of sorted food out and I think [color=#BF0000]we were then unpacking in the rooms when, erm, the rest of the guys arrived [/color]and they came in by taxi so they actually pulled into the car park at the back, I remember going out to sort of meet them and say hello to them”.

So I think, I think at about sort of, erm, I’m not absolutely certain about this, but I [color=#BF0000]think at about four o’clock we also went poolside, four or five o’clock[/color], [/quote]

[quote]RUSSELL O'Brien
they were a good hour landing after us and we weren’t extensively delayed at the Airport, from my recollection, it seem, probably less like”.
1578 “[color=#BF0000]So they arrived some time after you?”
00.12.08 Reply “Yeah, I think they, they were, they were landing about a full hour after us, [/color]but I think by the time we’d got luggage out and we were on the coach,

When we arrived we parked near to the apartment reception and we were taken to our room around lunchtime. I recall sending a text message to Gerry and Dave to say that we had arrived and also a text to a friend from Germany- who had tried to ring me, I had sent a message to tell them I was away on holiday.

I recall[color=#BF0000] we all went to the pool as the kids wanted to swim, it was a windy and cold I'd say it was mid afternoon time, I remember that the PAYNE'S and MC CANN'S arrived at some point whilst we were all at the pool.[/color] We all went to the welcome meeting at the Tapas Bar on Saturday and I think that we may have gone to another one but I cannot be sure. (page 3)[/quote]