When we arrived, men were working on the main road, setting 6" square blocks, one at a time, in sand. They worked 12-14 hour days and after only 3days it was complete and ready for the long Easter weekend traffic. Notice they are working all the way to the top of the street.
These pups are really happy. Their smiling faces allowed us to better enjoy the down days here, walking on narrow streets and along the waters edge. The waves are really something to watch and we could sit for hours listening to them roar and crash. Ericeira is also very much a tourist destination with stores such as Zara, Globo and Billabong. We did see a dozen or so surfers but in the summer we hear the town goes crazy with big wave riders. Many hotels offer lower level showers for surfers coming back from the beach. Lots of restaurants, tapa wine bars, (we had a wonderful evening in a very cool 3 story roof top beanery opening at 7:30 pm closing at 3 am) and snack bars offering espresso and yummy pastries. We fell easily into the Portuguese life style, rising at 9:30, napping at 3 and partying till midnight. (Well, not everyday! -sometimes we slept until 10 :) )
It's Good Friday and the town exploded with tourists. We headed for the bus station leaving for Peniche, (pay-neesh) known as "the wave capital". The road around this ocean spit is about 8km. As luck would have it, the bus station and our accommodation were at opposite ends of the town. We decided to walk to our room, believing our information from the hotel that they were only 1-1/2km from the center of town and us thinking we were in the middle of town. But, night was beginning to close in on us and getting dark fast and with no street lights and soon thereafter concerned with iPhone map draining battery juice fast, we lacked sufficient power for the needed flashlight. Ultimately we made our 4km walk to a welcome nights rest. Oh...what a treat to get those knapsacks and gear off our backs.
It's an awesome location to view the ocean because we are on the most westernly point. Bad news is there is nothing around here except a couple of snack bars (small bakeries with sandwiches, soup). Grocery stores were back in town. So we ventured out on Saturday (we need our daily fix of dark chocolate biscuits) and got caught in rain showers on the way back. That was yesterday and our clothes are still a bit damp. Ah, the adventure of an adventure.
Happy Easter everyone! Today is sunny and 15c. A walk around part of the coast and we were rewarded with roaring waves that sound like thunder as they crash into the rocks and make the most spectacular displays and sprays. 
Loving our stoned horse. He doesn't go very fast...we're thinking he hasn't moved much over a the last thousand years! Great kinda ride.Tomorrow we begin our last week and head back to Lisbon. Giddy up!
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Despite all the places that have fabulous wave action I guess you two still haven't taken up surfing... but from Bill's latest look... it would seem that he is set to open a rival fried chicken franchise to Col Sanders... nice look Bill :)
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