Following a good breakfast at the Hotel we went out in the car and our plan for today was visit a supermarket to buy food for lunch then a tour of the town, followed by lunch on the promenade and then visit the castle, or so we thought.
Well the first part went according to plan but en-route to the supermarket we passed by the castle and the main car park was closed with lots of building activity going on and then we realized this was due to the planned celebrations of the passing of Salazar the country dictator and their are countrywide events on Saturday 25th when their will be concerts in the castle and lots of other events, hence it was closed which is shame. We arrived at a brand new are with lot of large chain from McDonalds, Burger King and Intermarche, LIDL and others and we both our sandwich and fruit for lunch.
I came across
this video of a walking tour of Sines which I thought was good and so attached
So we toured part of the old town on the way back from the supermarket but the roads were very narrow and with cars parked and two way traffic it was not fun and so we stopped on the promenade to have lunch. Whilst parking we started chatting to a Belgian guy who was living out of small van which he said had everything and he enjoyed Portugal being a much nicer country than Belgium and more freedom of self expression. We wished him well and enjoyed our lunch and then went to a local seaside cafe for a coffee which was nice.
On the way back to the Hotel we passed the castle and this time the car park was filling with beer and food stands ready for the forthcoming events. The rest of the afternoon was spent relaxing before Jennifer goes for her massage and then later for dinner in the restaurant.
Tomorrow morning we leave for Evora where we visited last year but this time for two nights and we plan to visit the old town of Monsaraz which visited last year but to much traffic and no parking and so we plan to go early on Saturday and hopefully park, we shall see how it goes.











