The five musicians never showed and Solene headed off to Evora and Braga after breakfast ... alone in the hostel, with home made supper and breakfast (porridge, of course) ... a dismal start turns to rain for the day, so after the Castelo museum and its exhibition on the role of the post office in World War 1, which Portugal joined in 1917, and the Municipal Museum, with Antonio (pictured) giving the tour ... it was lunch with Helder and more philosophical discourse ... then a retreat to the hostel, some reading from literature in Portuguese and English, published by the Robinson Foundation, on tourism in the town over the past hundred years ... George Robinson was the founder of the cork processing factory and for a long time the major employer in the town ... apparently a benevolent chap in the Cadbury, Rowntree mould of Victorian philanthropists ...
Some thoughts about looking around tomorrow, when the rain clears ... getting to know the area, which appealed last time and has the same effect now ... anyway the Hostel Portalegre is comfortable and cheap enough at €15 a night ... the feet appreciate the break from daily plodding ... though the mind is already imagining interesting off road routes southward. ..
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