Off to new "learning and discoveries", as Grand Circle calls our out-of-the-way adventures. Now in Portugal, we had a real highlight of the trip today, a detour through the back country to the prestigious family owned "Brito Paes" Stud Ranch, on which property six generations have bred and sold Lusitanian horses. It is family run now by a widow and her 3 sons. Maria also has built a lovely separate guest diningroom in which a local staff of women served us a fine lunch. They raise the horses for the first 4 years and do some performance training as well, so we saw a demonstraion with several of these beautiful animals. Along our drive we saw many storks in nests up on the utility poles in the country. We also passed the (black) pig farms (remember that expensive dried ham?) near the forests of cork (oak) trees. Stopped to examine the peeled bark trees, from which all those good wine bottle corks are made. Sunset arrival into Lisbon tonight.
Today's pix: lunch at the farm; Lusitanian horse show; peeled cork tree
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