Postcard from the end of the World

Postcard from the end of the World
2007 December

A flock of sheep with lambs only a week or two old seen under a low winter sun. Looks normal enough until we look at the date and do a double-take - it is December 3!

But this is a few kilometres from Cabo de São Vicente in the Algarve, the southwesternmost point of Europe. A point which the Romans considered the end of the world.

Moving to Cape St. Vincent itself, here is another double-take situation. This man is fishing.

The surprise is that he is doing it from the top of a 100 metre high cliff! (In the big picture he is at far right and his rod can be seen.)

Santa Claus comes to Portugal same as everywhere else but this being the Algarve, he can dispense with his red coat and just wear a t-shirt on his top! This was seen in Loulé.

Oh dear! Lesley has got herself a new man and he is bigger than me!

This is Sancho I, King of Portugal who also used the title King of Silves, which is where this statue stands outside …

The Moorish castle in Silves reminding one very much of The Sid.

This is the marina at Vilamoura where we were staying. A totally synthetic rich man's / golfer's paradise. But at least the real Portugal is only a few kilometres away.


I thought of using the left hand picture to illustrate cataplana in Wikipedia. But it already has the one on the right.		Not an RWH image - different licence

Images uploaded to Wikipedia Guadiana International Bridge - Ponte/Puente Internacional

Sanlucar de Guadiana			Algoz Lavadouro

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