End of Term Lunch...and A Corking Little Pre-Lunch Stroll.....and nostalgia from Round the Corner

 End of Term Lunch...and A Corking Little Pre-Lunch Stroll.....and nostalgia from Round the Corner

In the total spirit of co-operation,  Ros organised the prelunch walk, Susan the lunch so I volunteered to do the blog.

 One of these days I will learn to add at least 15 minutes to whatever time I agree with Sue to leave for a walk....as a result of hunting for sunglasses ( in her bag all the time, which I found ) we were too late at Sarnadas for a pre-walk coffee, being the last to arrive. 

Without Alan and his self-timer gizmo, here is a starter photo :

L to R approx,...Kim, Steve, Susan, Jan, Julie B, Rafa, Martin, Claire, Terry M, Peter, Ros, Margaret, Sue, Frank , John....with yours truly behind the lens.

We duly set off on a short walk led by Ros, who couldn't quite forget she was once a teacher, so set us impossible questions on Portuguese Cork every time we dared rest in the shade:

Frank, with a photographic memory of a visit to the Cork Museum, seemed to know the answers to  obscure facts and was eventually banned from answering. For those who are fascinated by such trivia, the questions were....with answers at the end of the blog....

We had the usual AWW ups and downs , with a rainbow house being a bit different;'

Then past a derelict primary school...

 No blog would be without a view of walkers' backsides , an Alan specialiaty, but he was absent today :

We passed Picota, not the one near Foia, the other one where there was a near mutiny on a Ros walk when she threatened to walk up it....but we did  see 2 float planes, which are apparently for dealing with fires:

Unfortunately, they were too fast for your photographer....but there was a  lovely azure sky...

Only 1 puddle ,but Rafa was in-and-out before the camera was...

And so, back to the  cars,  just over 2 hours , and thence to O Folklore in Alte...but have you ever seen a hasher drink a beer from a glass?...

Ros duly awarded Frank with his prize for  knowing too much about cork.....

Would have been called sex-on-the-hash had it been Monday...

This is a better one to show Phil...

We seemed to be waiting a long time, but eventually wine, doradas, wine,  chicken, wine, javali, wine all came....along with Dinah, Eileen and Margaret who didn't walk...

A great lunch....David announced a Sparrowfart in  late July :

And Geoff thanked all who came, the leaders, the newcomers and hoped the newbies might become leaders ( though, after Peter's recent hash , perhaps when we are in the UK!).....and Susan for organising the walk and Sue M as Treasureer ( & Ros & Jan for deputising).....well, should have done, if didn't...

Jan's eyes were too ig for her stomach, so she thought she would give Otter a treat:

What else to say ?  Lovely views...though these three got in the way....

Occasional braying from Balthazaar....

The end of a great season of walking , thanks to all for company , we start again officially in September. Have a great summer.....oh, the answers to the cork questions :

And finally...Steve and Margaret spotted this photo on a wall in a restaurant in Sagres ....the 10th anniversary of Round the Corner :

How many AWW do you recognise from 12 years ago?....at least...Miriam L, Terry M,  Val, Dina, Rod, Antje, Paul, Maria, Lyndsey, Hazel, Yves, Terry A, John H....plus seven   more that I am afraid I don't recognise/know.... the lady to the right of Hazel is the owner of the place. She sends  kisses to everyone.  The same lady is in this photo with Margaret, 12 years later.

And the track:

Geoff.

P.S.

Since I have the original of the Round The Corner photograph (taken 30.11.2011), please allow me to add a postscript to Geoff´s Blog.

RTCs were two day affairs and we would spend the night in the Hotel Navigador in Sagres. The best it could do in the way of refreshment was a kettle and some tea or coffee in the bedrooms; it did not even run to a bar. So for breakfast the next morning we would make our way to the Café Baia where the owners would come up with a quite reasonable bacon and eggs and toast.

This is the archive picture, with the owner´s wife to the right of Myriam Lo, not Hazel:-

And, in close-up:-

from the left:

The Café Proprietor, Chris Whittle, Myriam Lo, the Proprietor´s wife, Ian Wilson, Terry Mace, Val Albaster, Andrew Henley-Welch, John O´Neil (probably shouting the Irish for Cheese), Dina Peres, Rod Frew. Antje Whittle, Paul Vismé, Maria Newton, Diane Wilson, Lindsey Henley-Welch, Hazel Hope, Ian Scott, Yves Ferrer, Terry Ames, Ian Scott´s faithful hound Maddie, and JohnH 

JohnH