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Rode from home to the seaside today, this is a cool enough area considering it’s a stone’s throw away from Lisbon and some areas which aren’t so cool. It’s also near Ericeira which is a world surf reserve.

Lunch was had at a small countryside cafe, no other clients when I arrived, was even left alone taking care of the place :classic_laugh:

 

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It’s a shame we are in winter time, weather is too good for night to arrive so early. After lunch I noticed a sign to some fortification ruins and went to check them out, following some wind farm service roads. Really like these kinds of roads, am eager to go back to some better tires though.

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Sign doesn’t say when it was built, it was around 1810 to defend against France and Napoleon with help from the Brits. 

No walls to be seen though, but it was cool to be there anyway.

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Half an our later through small back roads and arrived at the seaside

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Nice ride, today, am posting this from @Sofia’s waiting room while being used as a pillow at the same time ?

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Just now, XTreme said:

Brilliant Pedro!

So you've been working in a cafe and a Vet's office today? :classic_laugh:

Actually yes :classic_laugh:, but this isn’t work, work was annoyingly non eventful...as it’s getting to be the norm.

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The Lines of Torres Vedras are quite famous, wouldn't fancy climbing up that with people taking pot shots at me. In fact even without them taking pot shots I'd think twice.

If you watch 'Sharpe' on tv you can see a combined army of up to 20 men fighting the French there in one episode. There were over 30 men fighting in the Battle of Waterloo episode. I think they were limited on budgets for that series.

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On 12/11/2020 at 15:50, XTreme said:

Brilliant Pedro!

So you've been working in a cafe and a Vet's office today? :classic_laugh:

He does good work! All creatures love him, even if they terrify him!! 

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7 minutes ago, Sofia said:

He does good work! All creatures love him, even if they terrify him!! 

He's pathetic isn't he?

He was terrified of my Rotties and they were just big cuddly babies!

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23 minutes ago, Pedro said:

She's talking about cats, Pete, cats! :classic_ohmy:

I'm not frightened of cats......they just give me a very wide berth because they don't like me.

But every dog wants me to take them home! That's why I ended up with 6 at one point.

What do you make of that @Sofia?

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1 hour ago, XTreme said:

I'm not frightened of cats......they just give me a very wide berth because they don't like me.

But every dog wants me to take them home! That's why I ended up with 6 at one point.

What do you make of that @Sofia?

Dogs are good. 

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On 18/11/2020 at 19:14, XTreme said:

I'm not frightened of cats......they just give me a very wide berth because they don't like me.

But every dog wants me to take them home! That's why I ended up with 6 at one point.

What do you make of that @Sofia?

You must be wonderful!! Dogs dont lie!

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