Bubulcus & Bolotas Camping is full of these flowers now. My grandpa use to call them “candeias” (a kind of oil lamp). Maybe because of the way they look if you put them upside-down?
Today I was at the railway station of Vimieiro. OK, the rails are no longer there and there is no way that a train could get there at the moment, but the station is still there.
We have got extremely nice weather now. No wind, blue skies and temperatures up to 25 °C. Indian summer, here in Portugal known as “verão de são Martinho“. Nature is loosing its sense for the seasons a bit and therefore […]
It seems that today is the acorn day – “Dia Mundial da Bolota”. We decided to celebrate by making use of this fruit: we have started making acorn liquor. All going well it will be ready in six months! Drop […]
After 5 cloudy days we are back to clear blue skies. Good for charging the batteries. I am still not used to autumn being the start of the growing season …
