{"id":1551,"date":"2023-03-19T22:46:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T22:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=1551"},"modified":"2023-04-20T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:00:08","slug":"portugal-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/portugal\/portugal-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal – 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aljezur to Arrifana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Able to eat a little breakfast, I waited 40 mins or so to see if things were stable before heading out. Much more up and down for the next few days and a bit of inland stuff. Not quite sure why they’ve abandoned the coast. Could be dangerous or that eternal problem, ‘Not on my land.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aljezur old town and the fort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heading towards the highest hill – as these things have a tendency to do – but this street going up has a worrisome name. Don’t want anything to do with Mosquitoes. Actually not been bothered by flies of any sort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eerie abandoned holiday village. Looks quite new.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Above the town now. Didn’t realise all the ascent on this day was going to be one hill at the beginning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The coast down below and some salt pans or sea food farms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The short route is down into that valley and up the other side but we are not going the short route, no sir-e-bob.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Does this mean, she’s a cow?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At last, caught one of the wee buggers. Loads of these lizards underfoot but usually too quick for me to get phone out and snap.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Damn! I’ve met no one so far. The question is, are these good people or hateful?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hell of a way to make a living, fishing from up there. The group were hateful so I’m pushing on for a while.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A nice little bay and village ahead. I wonder if it could be a contender?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Somewhere to retire to in the sun. Monte Cl\u00e9rigo defo a contender.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Two in one day. This one is either a short-tailed lizard or, one of those that regrows it’s tail after it’s bitten off by Stan and his crowd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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All these behind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And these ahead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Moved inland to this sort of open pine forest. Once more the scent of the trees is in the warm air. It is a sort of pine smell mixed with hot sawdust. Very pleasant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Across this valley and up to those white buildings and I am done.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Arrifana. Big Surfer town. Loads of camper vans complete with long haired dudes and dudettes, and with surfboards tied to their tops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The view from my balcony and the cliffs for tomorrow. Very nice. It’s been a lovely day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the restaurant having dinner and watching the sunset. Cato comes along for his water. Liking their 0% as can be seen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aljezur to Arrifana Able to eat a little breakfast, I waited 40 mins or so to see if things were stable before heading out. Much more up and down for the next few days and a bit of inland stuff. Not quite sure why they’ve abandoned the coast. Could be dangerous or that eternal problem, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1551","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1551\/revisions\/1559"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}