Sun 26 Nov 12° Santa Susana -Aljezur

Farewelled Mo, Ken and Chester and with my new curly scarf we drove south. Good road out but very bad rough patches, IC33 to Sines, green one side, dry sandy the other, very flat, long straight roads, 25 Miles with no roundabouts. Stopped at Porta Cova for coffee, free aire recommended by Mo and Ken, then to Odecoixe On N390 good road, also recommended by Mo and Ken, had lunch then drove to aire but terrible road out to beach area and back.

Lidl with 5 dedicated motorhome parks.

8 big brown wooly sheep ran across the road to the orange Orchard,  not close enough for us to have to brake.

Stopped for diesel but they had run out...21° warm...but grey overcast sky. Into Aljezur,  got diesel €1.36 eeekkkk got  €30. Into the town and behind a bar/restaurant,  down a slope and a large car park opened up on the backs of houses and a dried old river. Lots of motorhomes here. Tony spoke to a Brit who said we are lucky to come today, normally not much happens but there is a sweet potato festival on up in the town on the hill behind the church. So we had a cuppa, had a chat to Pat and Les, they have sold their house in Spain so agreed to meet them to farewell Casa Patrizia in mid January for a few days before the handover, they are now packing up 15 years of memories, lots of wonderful, happy memories to farewell.

Walked up the hill , past the church, about half an hour and came to a massive shed with what was like a mini home show, hundreds of people here, music, bars, places to eat, jewellery , scarfs, hats, bags and of course  everything possible made from the humble kumera , sweets, deserts, fritters, cakes, big oval chip and baked jacket kumera, amazing.
We bought a fritter with sugar and cinnemon, very nice and some of the chips which were a bit dry so took the rest home to have with dinner. It was dark when we left but the town was well lit as was our car park.

Chicken stir fry with kumera chips for dinner.  Batata Dolce festival very good to see.