Elvas has left a building - Wed

Wed. 6th Aug

Left Camping Rosario after saying goodbye to the wonderful hosts Ernst & Endrika. Would you believe they asked if we would like to come next July/Aug for 6 weeks to help on the site! How nice is that and we will think about it and let them know. We then drove to Vila Vicosa parked up and walked to the castle which also housed a Museum of archeology  and hunting & game. The building itself was very interesting - shame about all the stuffed animals. Then we walked to the Royal Palace couldn't believe there wasn't a sole in site. All the streets and roads there are made of marble(we saw many quarries on the drive in) it was a very clean tidy and neat town with lovely gardens too. Then onto the world heritage listed garrison boarder town of Elvas and it's fortifications. We are now only 6km from the boarder of Spain! The first site we had coming into town was the amazing 8km long 31m high 4 storey Aqueduct. It was begun in 1537 and the first water flowed in 1622. Parked near the tourist info and they said we could park here for the night then walked up into the walled old town. Lots of historical sites - too many to mention. It was good as all the information was in English. Even though it was in the low 40°'s today it didn't stop us getting around. Back to Priscilla and made a meal out if leftovers - delicious. Another motorhome saw where we were parked and decided to join us. As the sun set we walked up to the castle walls where earlier we had talked to the director/producer of a short movie that was being made. It is called Belonging and is based on the true story of Austrian children evacuated after world war 2 to Elvas and Evora. It should be finished and released on the 1st Nov. the guy told us even though they will be filming from. 9pm to 4am in the morning it may only cover 1 minute of the film ! He pleaded with us to be in the movie as we think he had heard of our previous experiences in Australia!!! But I am afraid we had to let him down.! The aqueduct looked amazing all lit up but wasn't long before we were in bed. Hopefully we will sleep ok here???!!!!