Do please check out our holiday apartments. April has been a month of two halves as far as the weather is concerned. The first half of the month was hot and sunny, but the last few days have been cool
Olive Picking
We spent a day at our friend Catherine’s quinta helping her pick her olives. She has around 100 trees so it is a major task, as you can see there were seven of us in total but even then we
Snow on the Serra de Estrela
We could see snow on the mountains from our balcony, so we decided to go and have a closer look. The last village had a flashing road sign saying road closed, but we carried on and soon were in a
Making Aguardente
After the wine has been made the grape skins are pressed to extract the last of the juice. What remains is almost dry skins, these are bagged up and taken to a local still, where they are made into a
Picking grapes and making wine
Well it’s been a busy few weeks, we spent a full week helping our neighbours pick grapes, on a couple of occasions we were part of a group of 50 plus. We started work around 8am and finished mid-day with
Wine from our own vineyard, for our guests
The weather continues dry and warm, still no rain of any substance. We have had a few visitors all of whom have enjoyed their time with us. We are rapidly approaching the grape picking season, and we will be helping
Warm weather continues
More weeks of lovely warm weather, with just a couple of wet days. Unfortunately this means the grapevines have to be sprayed, but in our case it only takes about an hour. Our grapes are looking much better this year
Carnival Day
Today is a public holiday, many communities put on a carnival parade. We visited our own in Guimaraes this afternoon. In the evening we went into Viseu and watched a much larger parade, which