Linhares

The village of Linhares is supposed to be a "Living museum" but we did not see much living there. There were however some interesting Boulder houses built arond the local rocks. The medieval castle is quite good too.

Tour of Serra da Estrela

Took a 75 mile ride round the Serra. The road round the Glacial valley was breathtaking, at least it was for Sarah being on the back of the scooter.
The rock formations were impressive especially the Old mans head in the picture. The top of the mountain is just on 2000 meters and has a shop selling local cheese and ham and is a ski centre. There was still some piled up snow on the top.We stopped at a waterfall on the way up called Poco do Inferno. We found the difficult route up.

Quinta das Cegonhas camping

We found another Dutch run site in a delightful terraced garden of a seventeenth century Manor House.
We took a walk up to the second highest village in Portugal, Folgosinho.

Conimbriga Roman ruins

Well preserved Roman town with lots of work to show how this must have looked in its heyday.

Convento do Cristo , Tomar.

The entrance is dominated by a Templar Castle and leads into a garden in front of the Convento.  Difficult to do this justice in a short note, I took over 75 pictures of the Convento so it gives a clue as to how spectacular it is.

Quinta da Cerejeira

Another lovely quiet campsite run by the Dutch, they seem to love Portugal.
We had a lovely Paella outside in the sun.

Marvao

This visit to Marvao started out as a potential disaster, I locked the keys to the scooter under the saddle. Luckily a workman gave us some wire and Sarah managed to fish them out while I pulled the seat up.
The Castle made up for all this and was the most fantastic castle yet. They were doing a lot of work on the building and the grounds. The castle is used as a venue for festivals by the Spanish as well as the Portugese. Sarah spotted a new bird for us a Blue Rock thrush .