Pedro

I am almost afraid to ask what that is after the description of that night.

I think I've posted a picture or two of that bridge before, maybe with the 1150 or XR, maybe not on this thread though. It is completely my favourite bridge, quite small but it's close to home and I ride through it to get over the Tejo River when going out on a big ride to the Alentejo via back roads. It was inaugurated in 1904 for railway use, back then at 840m it was considered the longest in the Iberian Peninsula for train use. In 1996 a new bridge (the ugly concrete one on the right) was built next to it, and it was then converted for road use in 2001. Funny, construction first started in 1901, the work converting it to road use was in 2001, a full century later.

I was going to take it while riding but the grid makes the bike slowly drift to the right a few inches at a time if I don’t touch the bars

I feel sorry for her having to have you drive her and whining all the way

All pictures or video of it imply you only hang off it though, and don’t ride it…

An over 40º ride through the Alentejo is always a nice adventure.

That looks so tempting! And easy terrain on the big bike too, not sandy How far do you figure are the hills in the distance? 30 or 40km? Apart from that, before this it seemed a properly cold and grim ride

a long term investment

like that specific cockney, yes

Yes, you do sound like you're John Wayne's deputy in an old western. In a nice way.

That guy doesn't sound like Pete at all, to me. I think you're focusing on the accent and not the guy's voice. That, or you all sound alike to me, which might not be wrong.

Rob Brydon sounds similar to you in short words like "Rob", "what", but to me that comedian does sound very much like you.

That guy is hilarious, and he sounds like Pete.

Funny enough, like most cars' auto boxes with the same up (forward) and down (back) buttons, it seems opposite of what is intuitive to me. On race cars it's pull back for up and push forward for down.

That's interesting, but there is one definitive chapel that is the blue roof room. The blue one is quite small, this bigger one is on a 90º to the other one but built maybe after, maybe as an addition to the original building. But then again it could be a canteen of sorts as this was quite the farm with probably a lot of workers. On thing the original text made sure was that it was to belong to a powerful family, but mandated to keep a church mass going daily, with some other obligations towards the church and the community, so providing proper meals and that kind of ambience could be the way of life there.\ Then the rich royals would probably gather after the hunts for a nice old fashioned Indian or Brazilian spice fueled orgy on the first floor

Thanks! I've done a couple of reports last year in which you really see the differences between north and south, and the countryside.

Too many to name, the guy looking at the inside of the barrel, or the police guy showing off in a room full of kids, I don't know... If there ever was well timed advice was the one guy that told her to put her tongue inside her mouth, as he clearly knew what was going to happen

They're not really Lara Croft, are they, those guys? What is the point of an abandoned sanatarium?

They were taken away from their owners during the revolution in an excuse by profiteers to give the people management of what was in the hands of “fascists”, all those people fled and the now "managers" ran everything into the grounds, farms, factories, rich houses, etc Then a few years later when they came back all the stuff wasn’t theirs anymore, and what was reclaimed is often stuck in a legal battle over heirs claiming against each other. The legal system being a joke, things get passed on from generation to generation in said legal system … It would be easier if it was to go for an organisation like you say, but I don’t see that working properly here. Maybe even better if sold for charity and used for businesses like small hotels, restaurants, etc, it would make a kickass brothel too!

This farm was operative in 1974, so all the damage happened since …

I don’t think so, the door was human sized and facing the entrance of the building, I suppose a barn would face the inside and be amongst the ones more in ruins. It could be a bigger church, though, I have no idea.

Ride safe, I’ve never seen those tires on a bike here in Portugal