Barrabra

A Moorish white village

This one for you Pip

Olvera

The 72km cycle trail (old railway) was hot work.

There is a man pruning this olive tree (look carefully).

Resene only sell white and mustard paint

White walls, tiled roofs

Smoko time

The Moorish castle which was captured by the Crusaders. An agreement was reached to let the moorish settlement remain.

Christian church built next to the castle.

The landscape - dominated by Olives, as far as the eye can see.

Seville

Door to Santa Maria cathedral.

Spain has fantastic bridges - Seville's is the best we have seen.

Jewish quarter.

Jewish quarter - Seville had a large Jewish and Gypsy population

Gretel's hand was shaking when she took this photo

A former gun shot factory.

View from the top of the gun shot factory

Castro Marim

A Moorish castle (square) within a Knights Templar castle close to the border with Spain.

We are the motorhome with scratches on the left front and right rear.

Silves

Adrift - like us

View from the battlement of the Crusaders castle - built cira 1290

Excavating the latrines within the castle

A view down the well.

Storks waiting for the hatching.

Distant view of Silves

Lagos

Grotos

Main street of Lagos

Gretel and tony reach the summit?

Sagres

As well as seagulls these cliffs are also home to Peregrine Falcons, although we did not see any.

Sagres - the most south-western point of Europe - the defenses in place.

Prince Henry The Navigator built a maritime school on this site, from where the 'New World' was 'discovered'. The above photo is the excavation of a compass.

Somewhere out there is America

A local fisherman fishing off the cliff on the point which is 80 metres high!

The cliff

Fatty and skinny

The wind blows so hard and so relentlessly that very little grows - a martian landscape