Now that's what you call old! - Fri

Fri 1st Aug 2014

Left the campsite at Evora and headed to Valverde and Guadalupe to see some Neolithic standing stones. The road to get the ones at the first site was too tough so we turned back. We had to go through some old Roman arches and I had to get out as I wasn't sure if we would get under them or not! The next site was still up a 4km rough track but we managed it ok these stones date back to the year 7000bc. There are about 150 similar sites in this area and are some of the oldest historical monuments in the world. We soon found out that it had been a rough track when David went to the toilet and opened the cupboard door and my best pot of face cream fell out and went straight down into the toilet cassette! Lucky he had cleaned it out this morning so it only had the one wee on it ! I made him get it out! Then we drove on past Evora for about 70 km towards the Spanish boarder passing through areas of vineyards /olives and tomatoes but still quite flat open countryside. Arriving at Monsaraz which we could see in the distance as it was on the only high ground in the area. Up a very steep and cobbled road to the car park to what must be the best view in Portugal. The car park is at the base of a walled village with a castle behind us (which according to David's book was built by The Knights Templars and is on 2 bisecting earth energy lines) so he cannot wait to get to the museum tomorrow ! Then at the front of us we are overlooking the largest lake in Europe! Lake Alqueva. So all in all a fantastic spot and it's free!!! Had a walk up onto the village and castle - we think it is one of the best we have seen so far! It is so well looked after - clean tidy and NO graffiti! Maybe as only about 30 people live here (mainly older ones). All the little shops were so tasteful and not tacky. David got chatting to all the shopkeepers as they all speak very good English. Walked back down to Priscilla to find a gorgeous cat and dog under her. So of course we had to share our BBQ dinner while looking at a million dollar view.