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| A few weeks ago we spent time in Obidos Portugal. That continent is filled with beautiful places, but every once in a while you stumble into a spot which transcends. Obidos is one of them. |
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| A tiny walled city. A small thing- in Obidos they traditionally trim most of the buildings with a stripe of color, either yellow, red or blue. It's practical with all whitewash architecture to paint a darker strip at ground level to hide staining. |
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| Ginja - Obidos does it best. Without question. |
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| One of the best suites, and private patios, one could ask for. |
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| The only downside to castle walled rooms... cell reception requires a stint at the window. Conversation benches have a dual purpose in the 21st century. |
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While in town we experienced quite a bit of serendipity. Among other things, we met (according to her owner... and I believe her) Portugal's only documented Chesapeake Bay Retriever. A beautiful little sedge girl. This girl is as Chessie as she could be. She is a working dog who retrieves on private land around Obidos. We walked by one night, and I whispered something like "that looks like a Chessie," and they overheard me, her mother was surprised that someone recognized the breed, and we had a chance to talk and play with this sweet girl (we really missed our dogs at this point). Possibly Portugal's only chessie. We were honored to meet her.  |
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| If you think you live with some narrow streets... just remember it's better than weaving mini-station wagons through castles. We loved this Peugeot 206, but it was about 6" too wide to take gates like this at speed, either that or my thread-the-needle driving is not up to par... probably the latter. |
