Lazy no words report, now with some words

[boboneleg]

I'm  sooooooooooooooo pleased you found your dictionary again, that was a great report.  Superb photos and megaliths as well

I have to say that i'm not overly impressed with that pizza but totally understand your reluctance to go into a crowded place to eat.

[Pedro]

7 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

I have to say that i'm not overly impressed with that pizza but totally understand your reluctance to go into a crowded place to eat.

Neither was I, but it was better than it looked and I'm washing it down with nicely chilled wine from the region I rode through today, all's cool!

[Sofia]

Amazing!!

[XTreme]

43 minutes ago, Pedro said:

To not incur in @boboneleg's rath, I´ll post a few words this today's ride. I had a proper day's riding today, left the hotel at around 9 and headed south to the Algarve, rode through country and mountain roads, mostly small roads. It was a little chilly in the morning up to about 10 or 11AM, but as soon as I approached Monsaraz it got hot, from then on temperatures ranged between 31 to 35, it felt hotter than that though and when it got to 31 it felt cool by comparison 

I was in a better mood today, so stopped to take a few pictures

First, storks' nests on top of telephone poles, they usually fly away when you stop nearby but managed to catch a couple:

 

Half an hour later, stopped to send emails, and had my morning expresso in Estremoz:

 

 

The full face modern helmet surprised me, and warranted a picture

 

They say the Alentejo is big, and it sort of is for Portugal size, but I'd love it to be the size of Texas, I could ride around this for days:

 

Warning, this thread is about to get flooded with pictures of my bike next to an Oak Tree

 

Alentejo traffic jam, this went on for a few minutes while they figured out how to balance the panels on one single strap

 

 

First sight of the Alqueva lake, from the Monsaraz Castle

 

And a stop for lunch a snack and refreshments, it was getting warm now, so I found a nice shady spot to park

 

And the day turned amazing, center and northern Portugal got rainy weather today:

 

There are worse places to park for a phone call

 

And then, near Serpa, I took a little detour from the road just for @XTreme's delection, this is an abandoned train station, so abandoned they already took the tracks away a long time ago, and it´s for sale!

I am sure Pete would be up these with a puppy like excitement, but I didn't really feel the urge to it

 

And made way, further on after a few great twisties I again got off the road to go and see a menhir. After a couple kms of loose shale dirt road I got pretty disappointed at the sight of this, they're smaller than they appear to be on the picture, the fence was just a little taller than me

 

I didn't feel like walking to the other one, drank some more water and rode on to the Algarve hills

 

Brief dirt road excursion in search of a great view, not very photogenic

 

What followed was 2 hours of very twisty roads over the Algarve hills, no pictures of that unless the tires showing signs of an afternoon well spent after I got home.

 

 

Searching for a decent meal in Faro proved hard, the local supermarket was already closed, a lot of places went under last year because of covid, a few of them also close on mondays, and I didn't like the crowds on the ones that were open, so uber eats came to the rescue and a pizza was had. 

 

I had a proper motorcycling day today, rode at my own pace which meant sometimes cruising admiring the scenery at very slow speeds, as well as enjoying the twisties. Tomorrow, it's going to be a little work and then a short ride to the local beach.

Brilliant Pedro!

I'd like to have seen a video walkthrough of the inside of the station though!

Can you go back tomorrow? 

[Pedro]

11 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Brilliant Pedro!

I'd like to have seen a video walkthrough of the inside of the station though!

Can you go back tomorrow? 

I might actually be riding past there in a few days, but the only way into the station was a half broken boarded window, and I'm not crawling into a risky building through a window. 

Tell you what though, it's a nice enough place and must come with a little land around it, enough for a little vineyard maybe, but it's isolated and hot in summer, proper hot.

[XTreme]

Just now, Pedro said:

I'm not crawling into a risky building through a window. 

You're young......what could go wrong? 

[Pedro]

1 minute ago, XTreme said:

You're young......what could go wrong? 

The wood floors could colapse and I'd be inside a building in 35º heat... 

boarded windows and doors!