After a pleasant evening on Sunday night we awoke expecting to see rain only it did not come till a lot later later. We went for the buffet breakfast and there was good selection and the general Hotel atmosphere was very good with attentive staff. We were aware that the EV changing points were in the garage and so moved the car to the unground car park and they had a choice of about a dozen EV charging points. There was a notice on the unit to contact reception after plugging in car which we did and then to reception where they said that EV charging for Hilton Silver members is FOC, which we thought was good.
The olf town is very cramped being a walled city and the thought of trying to find somewhere to park was not great snd so Noel check is Uber or Bolt were oeratin and they were and for the grand sum of 4 Euros we could be dropped if the centre of town and so this was a no brainer. We arrived at the Cathedral which is now a Museum and waited for the clerk to sort out tickets for a family in front of us which took at least ten minutes so we gace up and decided to walk around the town instead. There are some good views out over the fields to the roman built aqueduct and of course being Portugal pretty much all of the houses are painted in whire which after a while gets a little boring.
So we wandered around the town taking photos and then stopped in to a café for a coffee then a bit more walking and after nearly t wo hours we had seen pretty much everything. There were lots of nice expensive shops but we don't need anything then headed back to the main square where the local council were erecting a stage presumably for an Easter event. There was taxi waiting so we jumped in there and back to the HIlton Garden Hotel fr a rest and cup of tea at which the heavens really opened and it rained like hell for a couple of hours so lucky we cam back to the Hotel. After a rest we decided that we would eat in the Hotel again as it was a Monday and many restaurant are closed, but also we have been trying to survive on two meals a day.
We decided to go to the bar for a drink and got chatting with two American couples who were visiting the town just for one night and were off to try and find a restaurant, good luck but it was nice chatting to them for a while. We then went for Dinner and had a glass of wine and then returned to the room about 7 pm and spent the evening watching some You Tube videos before hitting the hay, as they say.
Tomorrow we leave for Viseu which again has an old town but surrounded by new buildings, all in white, where we will spend two night but the weather is looking very poor with lots of rain forecast.
Ah well to sleep.
