October in Lagos, Portugal

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October 28th 2012

Published: October 28th 2012

We have now been in Lagos, Portugal since October 3rd– hard to believe that almost a month has gone by. We have met quite a few of the cruisers that are here for the winter in the marina – most are from Europe and many are repeat customers coming back to Lagos year after year. One of the first comments we heard was that many call Lagos, “Port Velcro”. We understood what was meant by this a... Read Full Entry

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Bob & Janice Waller

s v Tsamaya

Like so many others we love to travel and we love to sail so cruising makes a lot of sense. Janice has retired from Cornell as a business manager and Bob has retired from South Seneca school district as the high school principal. It's time to sell the house, get rid of whatever doesn't fit on our 40 foot Caliber LRC named Tsamaya (this means Travel Well in Setswana) and set off to see the world. Our reasons for publishing this blog is twofold, first to keep in touch with our friends and family and secondly to share our experiences. If you would like to receive notification when we have added ... full info

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Desserts

There was a festival and they had a whole building filled with vendors selling their desserts - quite a variety!

Looking Toward Town

Walking back from the fort you get a view of part of the town of Lagos

Great People we Met in Silves

We met these very friendly Portuguese ceramic artists who taught us a great deal about the history of ceramic tiles. We bought this lovely bowl and they generously gave us a gift of the tile with the sailboat design.

View of the Wall

The castle on the hill at Silves makes quite an impressive sight and the walls are quite extensive.

Formal Garden

An aerial view of the formal garden at the castle - they are currently planting it with vegetables.

Bob peeking around the corner!

The Gate

One of the gates into the city of Silves is still standing and is quite an imposing structure.

More of the castle walls at Silves

At the Castle

The castle at Silves is in quite good shape and many of the towers you could walk into.

Low Tide/High Tide in Silves

The tide was much higher than we thought for a town that is 8 km (4.3 mi) from the ocean. Thie bridge built in the 13th century is on the site of a Roman bridge.

The Musuem of Archaelogy

Upon finding this unusual cistern-well with a shaft surrounded by a stairway & domed ceiling the archeology musuem was built around it. Well worth a visit!

Cistern at Castle

The size of this cistern at the castle is large enough to supply 1,200 people with water for a year. This helped them survive during the siege in 1189. & it was used up through early 1980s

Olive Trees

These olives were growing on the trees lining the river in Silves

The Cathedral of Silves

This is the first gothic structure we have seen in Portugal.

Golf Anyone?

We found out that there are quite a few golf courses in Portugal so anyone for a golf holiday??

Oranges anyone?

Outside the train window we saw lots of orange trees loaded with fruit. We learned that the price is so low they aren't bothering to pick them. What a shame as they look really good

Removing Anchor Chain

We are getting our anchor chain & anchor galvanized & fortunately for Janice a fellow cruiser helped Bob with loading all 400 feet into the cart.

Sailor loves rainwater

Whenever we get rain on the hatch Sailor loves to drink it up!

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