Lenny's Heading for Portugal - Maybe

[Lenny HB]

Wanted somewhere to stop on the way to Sintra so we are now at Fatima.
Oh dear it's the Portugese version of Lourdes. Went out to buy some food no chance, hundreds of shops selling religious artifacts & hundreds of fast food restaurants but no food to cook yourself. Just had a Google there is a curry house nearby so that's tonight sorted.

Nice Aire in a nice carpark only 7 dedicated Motorhome spaces, a van was moving out as we arrived so we bagged one.
Funny brown thing at the left front is a water tap, and a waste drain on pitch, no WC empting but very large clean public loo 50 yds away.

 

[Lenny HB]

View from the van door couldn't have parked much nearer to the main attraction.

 

[Lenny HB]

Well Google let us down badly tonight after walking a mile to the curry house found it was no longer in business.
Managed to find a reasonable hotel restaurant.

So come on you lot guess the price.
We only had one bottle of wine

Soup for me, no starter for Mi.

Portuguese equivalent of a beef stroganoff for two with a side of Portuguese veg (cabbage & beands in breadcrumbs)

Mi didn't want a pud so I had one big enough for both of us .

 

[Robert Clark]

Well Google let us down badly tonight after walking a mile to the curry house found it was no longer in business.
Managed to find a reasonable hotel restaurant.

So come on you lot guess the price.
We only had one bottle of wine

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Soup for me, no starter for Mi.
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Portuguese equivalent of a beef stroganoff for two with a side of Portuguese veg (cabbage & beands in breadcrumbs)
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Mi didn't want a pud so I had one big enough for both of us .View attachment 265441

€30

 

[Lenny HB]

I'm not religious but I was overwhelmed by this place the sheer scale is awesome, the main square is twice the size of St. Peter's in Rome and a lot more pristine.

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[Lenny HB]

And at the far end of the square the new chapel, just look at the size of it, notice the size of the people walking in the entrance.

 

[Lenny HB]

Crown of our lady of Fatima has the bullet used in the assassination attempt of Pope John Paul II mounted in it.

 

[Lenny HB]

Caught some pilgrims cheating using knee pads.

 

[Just smiffy]

€48.....

 

[john lillie]

E25 (my keyboard has no euro sign)

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[pandas]

if you had ordered the 3 fishes and 5 loaves of bread it would have been free and you could have shared them with quite a few others evidently. Fatima is now on our visit list thanks to your shots. The meal looks a lot better than curry might have been!

 

[pandas]

An unrelated question; I notice your windscreen 'up blind' is often up when parked rather than the main front blind down - is that because like ours the main blind has a fault?

 

[scousebird]

€40

 

[Lenny HB]

An unrelated question; I notice your windscreen 'up blind' is often up when parked rather than the main front blind down - is that because like ours the main blind has a fault?

Nope, it's a separate privacy blind we can see out people walking by can't see in.

 

[Just smiffy]

Have I won...?

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[Sundowners]

We are not religious either, but were moved by the whole thing. Even bought a candle and lit it to be placed amongst thousands of others.

 

[Lenny HB]

Have I won...?

Nope

 

[Lenny HB]

And the winner is @john lillie

I like it that you don't get ripped off for drinks in restaurants here, a bottle of wine is the same price as in a supermarket. They do put bread
, olives & cheese on the table and charge you for them but price is so low you don't mind.

 

[Lenny HB]

For anyone coming here you won't starve found a Aldi in walking distance, south east of the parking.

 

[Lenny HB]

E25 (my keyboard has no euro sign)

It will have, you just need to find it.

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[OldAgeTravellers]

E25 (my keyboard has no euro sign)

Press and hold the Alt key and type 0128 which produces €.
p.s. On a PC, on a MAC you are on your own!

 

[john lillie]

just tried that, nothing happened.....

 

[john lillie]

I knew the bill must have been reasonable, otherwise my cheapskate mate wouldn't have gone to live there!

 

[OldAgeTravellers]

just tried that, nothing happened.....

The 0128 must be on the keypad, works on any PC I have used. If you have a laptop without keypad there is usually a function key to access a subset of keys usually : 789, UIO, JKL & M.

 

[john lillie]

€ ah, I was using numbers along the top, not those to the right, got it now thanks

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[Lenny HB]

Also on a pc press Con, Alt, 4

 

[Lenny HB]

A couple of shots in gloomy daylight before the rain started.

And just around the corner this square with 45 different booths all selling the same stuff.

Could cost you an arm and a leg here, well a leg anyway.

Hundreds of people buying wax limbs, heads, children and candles up to 5 foot long and then they go and throw them on the barbie.

And if thats not enough 90% of the shops in the town are like this, (one of the posher ones).

 

[Lenny HB]

Then I was made to suffer 'er indoors route marched me over 2 km to this shrine, in the pooring rain.

 

[Bustup15]

Hundreds of people buying wax limbs, heads, children and candles up to 5 foot long and then they go and throw them on the barbie.

That's a result @Lenny HB - throwing children on the fire. Do you think it will catch on in the UK?

 

[Just smiffy]

Could cost you an arm and a leg here, well a leg anyway

Could you pick me a couple up, I seem to have mislaid mine....

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