Up the hill in comfort

 So here we are in Sitio. The photo shows  the area on the left on top of the hill looking from the port. The track of the furnicular railway is just visible on the left,

This is an old area which still has remains of the original city wall. There are lots of cobbled streets, little squares and narrow roads, The main square has some attractive old buildings, including a convent, and it gets crowded with tourists in the summer and with surfers in the winter apparently but covid has put paid to the crowds and surfing is not allowed under current restrictions.

There are great views over the town, the harbour and the beaches to the south.

Our apartment is in a modern building just under one of the remaining arches in the old wall behind the bullring. The bullring is still used in covid free times and is fairly popular, though the Portuguese never kill the bulls. 

The apartment itself is also modern. It has two bedrooms but in these times we will clearly not be hosting any visitors. We are enjoying being here in the warm as the weather gets colder (falling to 1 or 2 degrees at night now, though often clear and sunny by day). Bathing and showering without having a 10 minute walk to the shower block is a great bonus as is excellent WiFi and Scruffbag is enjoying watching Netflix and cooking in a proper kitchen. We have two small balconies with a view of the Atlantic too. There is a small  fish market and a small vegetable market nearby and the bakery and the butchers are minutes away as is the launderette, which, though we have a washing machine, can be useful for drying sheets etc. if  we have a few wet days. Our Portuguese is likely to improve since English is not spoken anywhere near as much as it is in the lower part of town.

 We look forward to getting out and about and exploring the northern side of Nazare on our walks and cycle rides,