Morning walk and Christmas shopping

We woke up to a beautiful but very cold morning. It was no more than 5 degrees ouside but the sky was blue and the sun was shining. We decided to take the dogs for a nice walk to Salir de Matos.

It is about 3 km along Rio Tornada to Salir from where we live. We walked slowly enjoying the beautiful landscape and well there we had a coffee at café Rustico. Then we headed home 3 km. All in all it took 90 minutes or so. While walking I had to first take off my knitted hat, then my scarf and finally open my jacket. It just got hotter and hotter.

beautiful road

rows of apple trees

When we came home we locked the dogs into the house and went to Caldas da Rainha to do some shopping. Well we didn´t actually shop anything but pointed at things we wished for Christmas so the "others" would memorize.
There were quite many people shopping and first we went to the fruit and veggie market to buy some nuts.

a lot of nuts

There were many different animations in Caldas today. Among other things we saw a crib with a human Josef and Mary.

The baby is a doll

 There was also people dressed up to, well I am not sure what, but some kind of christmasy people.

Then we went to restaurant Lisboa for a lunch. All in all a nice and relaxed day.

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/Åse