Right, let’s get on with it! Service and goodbyes (again!)
then a quick fuel stop before another quick call into Lidl for bread and milk
(and a bathmat, bottle of Malibu, you know, the everyday essentials!). Then we
got lost coming out of Portimao, not having programmed in our destination.
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| Sometimes, we don't get it quite right! |
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| And sometimes we do |
Well actually, we had only a vague idea of where we were
going, Evora being a city we had passed through two years ago and promised ourselves
to revisit. On the map we spotted the Alqueva reservoir, the largest in surface
area in Europe, and its barragem (dam).
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| On a clear day you can see forever. At the Alqueva Barragem |
These barragems quite often have large
parking areas and motorhome parking is tolerated and popular. However in this
case it was not so, but our Aires book “recommended” a place just a little
north promising the best views in Portugal (heard that one before!) so
programmed it into TomTom and enjoyed a scenic route through the various
waterways formed when the dam was flooded.
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| Monsaraz |
Monsaraz is a citadel town, that is, it’s built within fortified
walls on top of the only, quite high, hill around and one of the car parks is
dedicated to motorhomes. On a terrace just under the walls, it was indeed a
superb location and we got the last space, overlooking the huge expanse of the
Alqueva reservoir in the late evening sunshine.
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| View from the van |
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| The other way |
The kind of place you can only get to see with a motorhome.
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