Awoke to a sunrise, a mild day and a huge breakfast before heading off to Santa Apolina and market day. Fairly ordinary eclectic market day offerings but high up on a hill the setting and the cobbled climb were extraordinary. Much of our time was spent exploring behind hidden archways, watching buskers and admiring non touristy side walk two table cafes (breakfast was too big to further imbibe). Our main goal was a local painting but none were on offer so we came back only with pictures of another kind
Some of these pictures in a former monastery showed those exquisite stone colours from yesterday along with gorgeous designs and streets that still show marked differences, the steepness being their main trademark. After the Camino, strangely we now enjoy climbing, maybe because of the relative small length measured in hundreds of metres, not kilometres, and also shows our lack of dependency on poles (this might be of special interest to those with Parkinsons)
“Lisboa is a hilly city that makes most peoples’ thighs sting” says Michael Hatton and there are many more than seven hills. That it had only seven was a myth created by a seventeenth century monk who wanted to make a parallel with Rome
A walk down to the mighty Tagus ended our outside day
That is one thing I particularly remember about Lisboa…forever climbing up steps or going uphill! It is such a pretty city to explore and it sounds like you and Corrie are having a wonderful time doing just that! Enjoy!
Hello dear friends
Enjoy getting these daily updates and gorgeous accompanying photos. Interesting comment about discovering your lack of dependency on the poles when walking. Also interested to see how much you are still walking – must be very different for you now, since you haven’t got that over-riding goal driving your journey.
Here in Qld. and saw my mother and family yesterday. Nell’s doing well – pretty amazing, She turns 99 next month, and had a minor heart attack last week, and has recovered from that, and doing quite well. Her faculties are deteriorating: she can only hear in one ear now, her eyesight in one eye is very blurred, and her finger tips are continually numb. She is very philosophical about this, and says that whenever it is her time to die, that’s okay. In the meantime, she is still immersed in life, writing poems and short stories for the writers’ club that she belongs to, having a great interest in family and other events, playing chess regularly and reading a lot.