Who would have thought ? 2025 marks 20 years of blogging our pedestrian activities in the Algarve. Much evolution - some might say degeneration - AWW (1997), WAGS 1 (2015),WAGS 2 (2019). Sideshows: APAPS, Lagos COWS -and who knows? By next year we may morph into WADS ! The Hard Core is numerically challenged and a tad softer, but Ever Onwards !
WAGS 30 11 2022: The Sequence Completed
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What sequence is that, you ask. It is the completion of Rod´s Walk The Three Dams Project, Odelouca, Bravura and this week, Funcho.
Project over, it appears that he has nothing more to say (and indeed why should he ?), so this is simply a pictorial record, not a Blog.
The Starters: Dina, Yves, JohnH, Hazel, Rod, Infgrid and Myriam.
The receding waters had uncovered some long-lost buildings
Art Work by Yves.
Art ?
Dina and Ingrid receive a helping hand.
There were lots of signs to guide us. Some we followed; some we obeyed..
The paths were long and windy.
Only Hazel spotted this.
"And if I press this button, it makes our conversation even louder !"
We came across an abandoned house which had the remains of a German library in it, including an old menu from a restaurant in Albufeira with the prices still in escudos.
On a far hillside Rod recognised another abandoned house where he had called the lunch stop on the last AWW walk which he had led.
And here it is, lunch stop on 29th November, 2017. Only two WAGS to be seen; Maria far left and TerryA very far right in the background.
Not much up here except ruins and beehives.
Was this some Maria´s hide-away?
No. Just a cleverly altered place name.
Yves´s title for this shot is "Current Fashions."
Not much water coming into the Funcho from the Arade River.
The Track and Statistics
Terry and care Philippa joined us for lunch
Is this a fish finger?
CVarapau
Liver
Cabbage and beans
Veal
A satisfactory tosta
Last weeks competiton; what completes this sequence?
Winner: Paul, whose Scottish geography was better than Yves`s.
This week´s competition: what is the connection between these four clues?
Closing music this week is sure to offend those who make a habit of attending soirées at Buckingham Palace but don´t like being spoken to.
Ken Colyer was a British jazz man who enrolled as a merchant seaman so that he could get to New Orleans and find the real jazz. He didn´t mind being asked where he came from.
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