AWW - Querenca 29-12-2021
From left
to right: Barry, Beulah, David, Frank, Tony, Julie, Sue, Karen, Brenda, dog.
And Sergio taking the photo.
People in
the photos look larger than usual. Of course, it’s because of the holidays but
also because I used a wide angle lense. In addition, because Frank noticed I
had my zip undone, some photos might be out of focus.
Ready for
the off, and colour coordinated in rainbow colours, we lined up for our
marching orders outside the Café Rosa in Querenca, the ghostly shadow of a
leafless tree extending its skeletal branches behind us.
I borrowed
one of David’s hike routes and followed it with my GPS application. Remarkably,
all went well.
We are off to a great pace along the empty roads that lead to the Alentejo.
The going got tougher as we climbed the steep hill to Cepo to an altitude of nearly 500 m.
All good so
far. Beautiful blue sky and no sign of last week’s dalek.
Then, low and behold, two Daleks appeared from nowhere. Sporting a new version, with powerful electric engines 4x4.
They quickly
caught up with the forward group.
Finally, at the top of the hill the Daleks cornered the group and told them to surrender. Tony was so shocked that he could not even bring himself to raise his hands.
Julie and
Karen surrendered immediately, Tony was still undecided, but Brenda made for
the first floor, safe in the knowledge that daleks can’t climb stairs.
The Daleks took all our food and drove off towards the African savanna, i.e. Alentejo.
David and
Brenda checked that the road was all clear. David surveys the landscape from
the turret of a buried submarine. He could not get down, so we left him
there.
Everybody at the top of Cepo.
We slowly marched down to the valley.
Brenda’s dog never barked. Good dog.
But these dogs did bark, providing the soundtrack of most walks in the Algarve.
Having no
food left, Tony tried to catch a gold fish in Fonte Benemola.
Back in Querenca for a well-deserved beer.
About 1500 calories burned, enough for a few more drinks to celebrate the New Year.
David is setting a new trend...think I still prefer the idea of youngest lady climbing the trig point, rather than oldest gent though....especially if I was there and David & Ken weren't! Weather a lot better than last week, so back to being jealous again.
ReplyDeleteI climbed the conning tower because nobody else would! For the record, Brendas's dog, on this occasion, is called Mamas. As for Tony's goldfish, I've just been watching The Lord of the Rings again....
ReplyDeleteAn excellent walk in the sunshine. I enjoyed the running joke involving the daleks, so much so that I have to admit I didn't see a goldfish in the fonte, but a baby amphibious dalek hiding in the river mud waiting to pounce on unsuspecting walkers.
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