The windmills of Montejunto

[Pedro]

This is a very local ride to me and where I go for a coffee or lunch as it provides nice views in less than 40 minutes on tiny roads.

Stopped by an old-fashioned windmill and the owner was there, so stopped to buy a bag of special flower that @Sofia likes to use for pizzas with an extra tasty dough. It's pretty cool to eat something made with flower milled in a proper windmill, too. I don't know much about flower but this is a mix of rye so it's darker than pizza flower and has that sower dough kind of thing to it, again, I know nothing about baking.

Turns out I just bought the guy leaving, and was left by myself to pack it, and then it turned into a fotoshoot since the sky looked cool and I hadn't taken any nice botm picture this month. All this is within the same 3 or 4km 

This place is called Montejunto, and it's quite special as a range of hills that separate the weather on the Atlantic coast to the inland start here and go all the way to the only mountain in Portugal, Serra da Estrela.

Being the windmill facing inland

 

And facing the ocean side:

 

Getting on a small detour to a less used mill, right over the crest of the hill: 

 

Ruins of a long gone mill still with the stone wheel in there right next to a newer one that replaced it and is again not in use:

 

In person and with nicer weather the ocean is quite clearer:

 

The windmills of Montejunto:

 

And said flower bag:

 

Tomorrow or friday it shall be taken Sofia's, and at least a small part of it turned into a pizza 

 

 

[XTreme]

Great report and superb pics Pedro......what a stunning place!

[Catteeclan]

Bloody eck. Bike of the month in so many but this this one for me.

[boboneleg]

That is absolutely spectacular @Pedro 

 

On a par with the sort of stuff @Earache used to post, what happened to him ??

[Pedro]

21 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

That is absolutely spectacular @Pedro 

 

On a par with the sort of stuff @Earache used to post, what happened to him ??

I’ve posted pictures from there before, usually with a clear blue sky. It’s the big clouds that make it look like @Earache’s pictures, his reports always go to places with proper big skies.

[Tango]

Awesome pictures and ride report, @Pedro. And you came away with a gift too!

[Pedro]

Just now, Tango said:

Awesome pictures and ride report, @Pedro. And you came away with a gift too!

No gift, I plan on eating the pizzas!

[Tango]

10 minutes ago, Pedro said:

No gift, I plan on eating the pizzas!

A gift to yourself then?.......nothing wrong with that!

[XTreme]

27 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

That is absolutely spectacular @Pedro 

 

On a par with the sort of stuff @Earache used to post, what happened to him ??

Didn't his Ducati mate say that him and Earache weren't posting here now cos we're not serious enough?

I don't know about you, but looking through this section shows recent reports from UK (England, Wales, Scotland), France, Spain, Portugal, and Thailand......I'd say that's pretty serious activity myself.

But it's obviously overshadowed by the laddish banter that prevails here.

So the way forward seems to be to ride your bike but be as miserable and humourless as possible.

[Buckster]

2 hours ago, XTreme said:

Didn't his Ducati mate say that him and Earache weren't posting here now cos we're not serious enough?

I don't know about you, but looking through this section shows recent reports from UK (England, Wales, Scotland), France, Spain, Portugal, and Thailand......I'd say that's pretty serious activity myself.

But it's obviously overshadowed by the laddish banter that prevails here.

So the way forward seems to be to ride your bike but be as miserable and humourless as possible.

I think it was just a excuse for them to spend more time bumming each other in phoneboxes.

[XTreme]

9 minutes ago, Mawsley said:

Shame about the bike but cracking pics, Pedro.

Just the kind of stuff Pete does only with proper scenery that's actually interesting.

[Pedro]

The flour got turned into dough, and pizza

 

 

Despite the frown I captured on both of the female’s faces, it was delicious.