Once again into the Portuguese Algarve over the “Rio Guadiana”, meandering slowly West catching all the usual haunts along the way from Villa Real de Santo António to Silves, not our first visit but our first time at Felesia where we could get into a campsite, so we stayed for over three weeks. We did cross paths again with Mick and Deb Clarke so it was good to catch up over drinks and nibbles.
We left Silves due to the heatwave, late May, heading North for cooler weather but we would end up back in Blighty well before it started to cool some months later. The journey North through the centre of Portugal was a pretty scorched earth trip due to the previous years fires, we could only imagine the horrors of it all.
Vila Velha de Ródão and the Crossing of the Tagus river while watching Griffin vultures coming in to roost on the high sided cliffs then catch the morning thermals in order to scour the vast Portuguese interior was a sight to see but after only one peaceful night we had to press on to Vilar Formoso and the border into Spain in the North. It was here we discovered the museum, a series of rail carriages dedicated to the plight of Jewish families hoping to get into neutral Portugal from Nazi Germany, sadly they where kept on board the train carriages for a number of days before being refused entry, it was the good people of Vila Formoso that risked their lives to deliver food and water in the dead of night to those incarcerated in the wagons and the museum is a tribute to their bravery and humanity.
Into Portugal 🇵🇹 
Food…… 
…..and good beaches 
Moonlit walk onto Felesia beaches 
Always time for a coffee and a natter 
The white gold “salt” of Tavira 
Evora – Se e Sao Pedro 
Vila Velha de Rodao 
Sabugal 
The railway station on the Spanish border 
Posh loo’s 
A dooer-uper ! 
Fountain of love 💕
elliotts on tour 