Monday, January 08, 2007
Thursday 28th December – Evora, Portugal
We arrived in Evora yesterday and this afternoon we decided to have a drive to familiarise ourselves with the surroundings, we started driving through Evora, which is a medieval walled town with much of the walls still intact. We drove through some extremely narrow streets, in some cases only a few inches to spare between the car and the buildings. We found somewhere to park right next to the Roman ruins called “the Diana temple”.
We started to amble along the alleyways and streets that make up Evora. It is a lovely town with cobbled streets and charming buildings. We stumbled across a museum of carriages with free entrance so we had a good look around, Max was quite interested and the only person to be told off for touching the exhibits was Jon. We carried on walking around and found ourselves serenaded by music. Classical music was being piped through speakers all around the town, it really made the place atmospheric.
We came across an art exhibition in a church showing clay models of the nativity in modern day settings. So Baby Jesus with his family on the beach etc. Despite our best efforts Max seems to be quite devout and loves anything to do with Jesus. So he was even more pleased when we came across a life-size nativity scene in front of another church. Part of our walk took us past a small printing shop where Jon stopped to tell the boys how it all worked, the man in charge invited us in to have a closer look but as he spoke no English we could not gain any more information. Later we all enjoyed Roasted chestnuts, a first for all of us and then made our way home.
Evora is a truly lovely town and we recommend it to anyone.
