Weather: Bit of an overcast start, becoming quite grey by mid afternoon, before clearing to sunshine.
Lunch was today's main event, and after surveying the options along the riverside and in the old town, we settled on a place just a couple of eateries along from the market hall. It turned out to be a choice with which we were more than happy: very good food, together with a fantastic waitress who managed to talk everyone who looked at the menu into stopping for lunch - including us. This is quite a skill - I'm usually resistant to being dragged into anywhere off the pavement. But this was a lady full of character.
Here she is in action...
...although it's not the best illustrative photo, as she's got her back to the camera, so you can't see her advanced years.
Immediately behind where I was sitting was a chain separating this eatery's tables from those of next door. The owner there hadn't got the same powers of enticement as our host, so he stood in his doorway with his pavement tables empty bar three people, watching next door fill and empty, fill and empty.
Lunch itself wasn't cheap by Portuguese standards (not that it was outlandish either), but it was very tasty. I took a remarkably poor photo of the main course (minus my homemade chips, which arrived a few minutes later):
Mick: braised lamb; me: squid
It's a good job we went for a run this morning (a coupe of repetitions of the riverside promenade) to justify a little bit of our piggishness.
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