Saturday 5 October: a day in Evora

 The campsite is getting much fuller and we talk to an English couple who have travelled a lot round Spain in their van over the years. Ideas for next year perhaps. We cycle into Evora again and explore an impressive church and the chapel of bones a rather eerie place with walls made of bones and skulls allegedly of the founding monks. Then up to the impressive Cathedral with an impressive cloister and fine views from the roof. We wander the cobbled streets of this attractive old town and browse some pottery shops and find some local souvenirs before lunch at a local restaurant recommended in the guide book. We’ve booked a table and for once we get it right and feel rather snug at the number of people who are turned away. It’s a small place, very authentic and in an unprepossessing back street. There is no menu they just bring you the set meal of the day and there is lots of it! A variety of starters including olives, salami, salad, mushrooms in garlic, chicken and pork bits and cheese pie. We’re then given a surprise course which we gather afterwards contains pigs ear, rabbit and beef tongue! We might not have eaten it had we known! Then a selection of Iberian black pork in a variety of forms and a plate of desserts! We are certainly very full and have to lie down by the pool at the campsite. We won’t be needing any supper this evening.