Enjoying the change of scene here in Portugal. The vegetation is all but scorched by the summer sun (I'd love to come here in spring), but here and there are marvels: the hedges adorned with pink and yellow flowers, a sprawling Convolvulus with deep purple-blue flowers and the ?Castor Oil Palms lining all the main boulevards. Cabo Sao Vincente was fantastic. Not many birds around except two great Red Kites and a Kestrel. Really struck by how like the Mull of Galloway or the Mull of Oa it is, in terms of rock structure and position.
Hopefully going to visit the mountains around Monchique tomorrow.