Weather: Some cloud about, but mainly sunny and warm. Bit less windy this afternoon.
We stayed two nights in the car park by the fort at Sagres, spending most of yesterday walking along the coast, in the morning to the E, in the afternoon to the NW. Being mainly limestone and sandstone cliffs, and with a landscape inland that was curiously looked both very arid and very green, it wasn't a shoddy location for a bit of walking:
Under the arrow in that last photo are two fishermen, dangling their legs off a ledge in the cliff.
It was a touch breezy, mind, and when I looked at the forecast at teatime and found that the wind wasn't going to drop overnight, as it usually does, we decided to forego levelness for a bit of shelter. Over to one side of the car park was a stand of cane, which looked flimsy, but proved to be a surprisingly effective windbreak.
Today we were going to (and did!) move on, but first I decided to forego my non-running day. Having discovered last evening that only just over 6km of road lay between us and the other SW point of Portugal (the one that's more west than south: Cabo de São Vicente), I decided that the obvious thing to do was to start my day by running there and back. The 'there' was the hard part, being net uphill and with a headwind. Coming back was a lot less effort!
Meanwhile, Mick took himself for some laps of the headland on which we were parked (which is exactly where I'd run yesterday, when Mick was resting).
Breakfast, showers, faffing, shopping, service point visit, more shopping (if we'd realised there was a Lidl on our route, we would have skipped the first shop, which didn't have everything we wanted) and a bit of a drive, took us to early afternoon, which is when we drove into the car park here at Praia do Amado - a place that was recommended to us a couple of weeks back.
It is a lovely scenic location, but I don't think there's a single spot in either of the large car parks that is level. We've settled for 'nose in the air', which is probably the least problematic slant with which to live (I may vary my opinion on this in the morning, if I roll out of bed in the night!).
View out of Bertie's side window. If that black van wasn't there we would definitely have nabbed that spot!
The sea is the obvious focal point, but behind us is a series of small green hills, criss-crossed with tracks and beside us is a small, quiet road that clings to the coast. After a stroll along the beach this afternoon, it was along that road we walked, to a viewpoint:
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