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Ruin motorcycling? Palacio da Rainha


Pedro

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I was being sort of lazy after lunch, a few work e-mails and then started to think of just staying home snoozing instead of going out for my ride. Made an effort thinking it would be the first time I would be riding my familiar roads with the new suspension. At first thought of visiting a friend but didn't really feel like being with anyone and headed for the hills. 

 

On the way up, this is maybe my favourite piece of 2km road in this area, bumpy on tight corners with tree roots lifting the tarmac, unfortunately you can't see any of that in this video:

 

Had a good cup of coffee in my favourite cafe up there, regardless of how hot the weather is at my home, up here under these trees it's always nice. A few bikes turn here on sundays, but it's always calm on week days.

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Heading back down:

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Someone left a nice couple of circles, I wouldn't be brave enough to do that here.

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Back in Azambuja I decided to make this a sort of dark motorcycling themed thing as it was a little to early to go home and I felt like taking a little more advantage of the afternoon, ended up with more of a ruin motorcycling than dark. Went to visit the Palacio das Obras Novas (also known as Palacio da Rainha, queen's palace), this building was erected in the end of the eighteenth century and acted as a control point for ship that used to travel in this canal between Lisbon and Vila Nova de Constancia. They had a hotel or an inn of sorts as support for the steam boat traffic, but since the surrounding area was pretty majestic it attracted important guests for long stays, becoming well know for Kind D.Carlos enjoyment of the place. (There you go, culture!)

 

The road leading to it goes through tomato fields, but the last straight used to be lined with a very impressive row of huge palm trees, all gone now from a palm tree beetle infestation a few years ago:

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Before the bugs ate the palm trees it used to look like this, not my picture: 

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Riding back, past a few trailers full of tomatoes ready to go for the local tomato juice factory, most of the tomato pulp in Portugal is made here. They might be a little overloaded :littleguy:

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Made it back home pretty dusty.

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1 minute ago, boboneleg said:

Great photos Pedro and I like the abandoned palace , what a shame about the palm trees.

Yes, a big part of Portugal’s palm trees died that year, my own in front of my house also fell appart.

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1 hour ago, MooN said:

I thought it might be an I phone.  thanks.

 

Samsung Galaxy A71 is going to be hard to beat Chris......64 megapixel! :classic_cool:

It can even make a Strom look good!

 

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15 hours ago, XTreme said:

Samsung Galaxy A71 is going to be hard to beat Chris......64 megapixel! :classic_cool:

It can even make a Strom look good!

 

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You can now see the wheel strips with extra sharpness! :classic_ninja:

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