Today is Saturday, so I didn't have to get up early to head for work :-). But I wakened at 6 am so got up and went down to the beach at about 6:30 am. It was still quite dark with the beginning of light in the east - sunrise was not until 7:10 am. It was cool but great to be there with no one else and to enjoy the ocean pounding away at the rocks, breakwater and sand. The sun took its time coming up so I waited and made a few photos.
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I mentioned earlier that we are booked for a tour to Seville, Gibraltar and Tangier. We are also, with the help of our JMV contact here, arranging a trip to the walled medieval city of Evora in the northern part of the province of Alentejo, just north of the Algarve. We will go to Evora on our own; that is, no tour. We plan to stay over one night so will have a day and a half there.
The ancient Celtic settlement of Ebora was established before the Romans occupied the area in 59 BC. After the Romans vacated it, the city apparently deteriorated in the hands of the Visigoths before it was rejuvenated by the Moors sometime around 800 AD. Around 1200 the Moors were driven out by the Christians and during its so called "golden age", the 1300 and 1400's, Evora was a thriving community with a population apparently well in excess of it's current 56,000,
So there is much history inside the 14th century walls, from Celtic, Roman, Arab and Christian cultures, accumulated over a couple of thousand years. Not sure when this trip will happen, but when it does I will do a blog show and tell.
Drinks on the balcony.
Cheers!
Lovely sunrise R. Especially good to see you and your horns.
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