Our destination today was the town of Evora (another world heritage listed town). It is inland about half was across the country (east to West) and somewhat north of where we were last night. For a bit of a change we chose a route that consisted entirely of minor highways and NO toll roads. The first 60 kms of the route was through or along the edge of a forest, and through out the day the country side varied between open farm lands and forests.

We were surprised by the extent and abundance of Gum trees (as Australians would call them, eucalyptus to anyone from California). In places we were in forests that were entirely eucalyptus and except for the fact we were on the right-hand side of the roads we could have imagined ourselves being in Australia.

We also saw many cork trees with their naked trunks, the lower parts of the trunk having had their bark harvested for cork.

We passed through a number of villages and were pleased to find that although at times the streets were narrow provision had been made for large and tall vehicles to get through.

We camped the night at a place our Pocket Earth app calls Camping Evora but which calls itself Orbitur and is part of a chain of campgrounds in Portugal of that name.

The camp has all the expected facilities, electricity, dump, showers, washing and drying machines and vehicle washing. And as a bonus we got to park under a loverly stand of tall gum trees.

Late in the day a group of guys from Porto (a Portuguese port city) on motorcycles and a Toyota Landcruiser support vehicle dropped by to look at our Unimog and we had a very friendly and animated discussion about all kinds of topics. Guys, ... thanks for the beer.