Evora, Portugal

31 March 2017

Okay, back to the blog - as we write this, it is 25 April, "Father it has been 16 days since my last blog entry...".  We've been busy, and but also experienced some marginal internet connections at many of our recent lodgings.  Oh well, back at it here now in the best internet we've had, here in our modern Rome apartment (there's even Netflix, that's how good the internet is! - so that distracted us from blogging last night).

Photo below - leaving Lisbon today (1 April) - no April fooling.

And now in Evora, Portugal where we stayed a night.  To the right, behind the women in the bench, on the wall, is a listing of recently deceased members of the town - we watched at least one townsperson catching up on the latest postings.

Roman aquecduct and reservoir remains.

The city of Evora appeared to have been working hard to revitalize their inner old town area to once again make it attractive to tourists (and probably more importantly their own natives).

Having our midday snack stop up in the high part of town with Roman ruins.

This monkey won't steal our stuff.

Receiving a wine tasting at a downtown tasting room associated with a restored winery outside of town (Ervideira Winery).  The host spoke English well - the other woman was one week into the job, and was the French speaking specialist, but also spoke some English.  The host was imminently well versed in all the wines.  One of their wines is aged underwater in a cavern, in the bottle, and tended to by divers.  

Queijada de Evora, a local pastry specialty (Tim:  "I think I saw something move in there").

Evora's town coat of arms -  a knight on a horse walking over two beheaded Moors - no further comment, it's just  history on display.

Our lodging - Vitoria Stone Hotel - we don't always stay in places that look like this.