Having joined Birte and Sophie's meal last night, I offered to cook for them tonight, plus Halina, studying psychology, taking a break from Lisbon . . .
Sao Teotonio is on the main Vicentina route, and only 7 km, so decide to combine a short walk with some shopping . . . arriving in town, there is a small group of men having a political meeting . . . the Alentejo is traditionally on the left, the land tends to be in large holdings, with landless peasants finding work when they can . . . a recipe for radicalism . . . Joao tells me there are tensions with the Bulgarian community, here for fruit picking . . . an interesting perceptual contrast, with Portuguese promoting communism, Bulgarians having experienced something calling itself by that name and seen their freedom disappear . . . maybe it's not so much the ideologies causing problems, but the people who assume power over time . . .
The walk in was along the roads, the return, via my very own cross country route. Walking friends will guess how that turned out. Interesting, different, fences to climb, private property to be trespassed upon . . .
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