{"id":2267,"date":"2023-03-25T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T10:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2023-03-26T04:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T07:35:54","slug":"fridaymarch-232023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/fridaymarch-232023\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday,March 24,2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There was a demonstration in Evora -Farmers protest tax hike: demonstration in the southern Portuguese village of Evora against European policy for agriculture.
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We left Evora shortly after 9 AM in the morning. I had booked our apartment for the night through booking.com and it was quite nice, mostly furnished with IKEA items. We drove out through the narrow streets and got on to the larger roads easily leaving the city. However, if you were coming into the town you would be blocked by some kind of farmers protest (hundreds and hundreds of tractors) apparently over 15,000 farmers, many of them with tractors came in to protest against some kind of European Union policy. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand what it was all about but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just glad we weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t coming into the city at that time.\u00c2\u00a0
Carol and Charlie wanted to see the port city of Sines, which is on the back on the west coast of Portugal, so the plan was on the way to stop at an area of Passage Graves just to see what they were like. These are neolithic stone structures, similar to what I had seen in Ireland and Scotland. To access them, you travel via farm roads that are more suited to a four-wheel-drive or a tractor than they are to a Volkswagen polo. Slow driving over the washed out road was OK; it was not comfortable if you were sitting in the back which I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, I was driving.\u00c2\u00a0
Back on the highway we headed over towards Sines and arrived there mid-afternoon. We parked the car after we located a craft brewery. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure you all know the patterns of our days; refreshments are always on our mind.
Then we headed south towards Zambujeira Del Mar, stopping at Porta Covo and Almograve on the way.
We arrived back home to a place with open doors and the landlord, Lu\u00c3\u00ads working on stuff around the house. This is not the way a renter should be treated. There was no indication at all in any email that they were going to come in, and open our doors etc; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m finding this quite an invasion of privacy. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not alone and that Carol and Charlie who also run an Airbnb establishment, as superhosts, know that this is not appropriate. Our neighbours from Porto had left early Friday morning. I know that place had to be cleaned, however, that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean that Lu\u00c3\u00ads should have been opening our doors and going in and opening all our windows; he may think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s polite but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an intrusion when our personal stuff is in there.\u00c2\u00a0
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Passage grave near Evora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We tried to relax when we got home however, the landlord was being very noisy with his weed whacker and whatever else he was doing. Finally, we decided we go out into town and eat dinner at my favourite Indian restaurant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went over and watch the sunset after, and returned home to a peaceful setting, minus the landlord’s racket.\u00c2\u00a0
Until tomorrow folks.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passage grave near Evora-as the clouds cross the sun the sense of mystery happens!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Passage grave near Evora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Passage grave near Evora<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amazing skies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sines streets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Flora- Bar in Sines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tea time?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sunset in Zambujeira Do Mar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sunset in Zambujeira Do Mar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We left Evora shortly after 9 AM in the morning. I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award-of-merit","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}