We went into Fundao to shop; on the way we passed several separate acres of burnt woodland and this afternoon we saw another fire on the horizon. The Bombeiros (volunteer firemen) are very good at putting them out (thank goodness). The weekly outdoor market was taking place (we’ve never been in Fundao at the right time before); it was a big market selling horrible clothes and shoes, poultry, vegetable seedlings (I was tempted!) and fruit trees, some interesting handcrafted wooden trays and troughs, barbeques and stills – it’s legal here to make spirits at home!
We went to Lidls and realised it is actually more expensive than the Portuguese supermarkets; so we’ll only go there for a few items now like tea and yoghurt.
On our way back we stopped at one of the village Fontes and filled six 5L bottles with drinking water; Mark has found out where we can get our well water tested locally, but until we’re 100% sure it’s safe we’ll drink this.
It was very hot when we got back to the quinta; so we went in our pool, it’s getting quite warm now; it still manages to cool us down though.
Brett has decided that he’s going to get back to his trench tomorrow and once that is finished we’ll clear out the studio ready for concreting the floor.
Gary came round .............. he made us laugh; re-telling the story of him crawling around Nick’s quinta, vomiting and being shouted at.
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