Day 5 – Evora

What a great day!

We toured a rug museum and saw a demonstration of how to embroider a rug followed by coffee at an outside cafe.

Day5 CrossThen we toured a cemetery.  It was beautiful,  not a word I would normally use to describe a cemetery.  From the cemetery we could see the ruins of a castle on top of the hill and we all tried to get a good picture of it.

Then we went to a winery.  Saw a fantastic collection of carriages (as one lady put it, women collect shoes – menDay5 vinyard collect cars).  I never imagined that carriages had places for hunting dogs, hunting ferrets, beds and toilets.  Then we walked a long way (not really) through the vineyards to the winery.  I never knew grape plants could be so beautiful.  Part of the road had olive trees along the sides.  After learning about how to make wine and how important it is to have a great wine master (we Continue reading Day 5 – Evora