It is July 4. Pretty quiet here south of Madrid. I haven't checked in in a couple of weeks and in a week we will be leaving the Iberian peninsula for the US. Will catch up when I get home if not before. Curt
June 17
We reached Nazare late in the afternoon as people flooded off the beach. Older women were still selling their fish along the seawall. Behind them on the beach were stretched long drying racks and nets from the days fishing.
As the daylight faded we walked up and down the tight streets and lit on a small restaurant withits entrance was almost hidden along the wall bordering the stone 'calle'. The futbal game was starting and we enjoyed grilled fish caught that day.
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| Nazare |
Nazare
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| Our restaurant and the owner |
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| His grandparents |
I had booked what appeared to be an interesting hostel for Eleanor's birthday in Sintra just west of Lisbon. Spending the next midday in Obidos, a small walled city, we arrived in the remarkable town of Sintra with its twisting roads. After getting lost a man led us to Almaa. I'll save that for the next post.
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| Obidos... you can walk the top of the walls around the town. No barriers. And factor in the wind. |
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| Fellow artists Eleanor and Burt |
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| Obidos courtyard |
On to Sintra...
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| Along our walk to town |
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| Mosaic in the Quinta da Regaliera |
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| The architect and builders dug a maze of caves under the Quinta |
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| and a mystical shaft to the surface |
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| On to the gardens of Palacio do Pena |
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| Pena Palace |
and the Castelo dos Mouros- Castle of the Moors built in the 8th century
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