Beja, Portugal

08 September 2008 Wonderfullly warm Beja Another horrible ride today. The road was pretty flat, becoming more undulating now we're moving across country. But the lane we normally cycle in was full of rubbish, or, was overgrown with weeds ...

I could totally get used to sleeping in hotels for the rest of this trip. I love having AC, hot water and unlimited showers during the day. This morning I woke up to a handful of fluffed white clouds floating across the blue sky, and it was such a ...

... them in the rice paddies, obviously fishing. We have been cycling in rice growing territory. Yes, they have paddy fields in Portugal. In Asia they tend to grow rice on terraces, here they grow it in big fields. Alentejo region, which is where ...

... original plan was to go from Lisboa to Evora but there are no hostels there so Anna, Alex, Jason and I took the bus to Beja where there is a hostel, an hour south of Evora.  We were traveling for most of the day so we spent the night carving Oranges ...