The Ponte Luis I, designed by Gustave
Eiffel, connects Porto on the North Bank of the Douro River to Vila
Nova de Gaia on the South Bank. Trains run on the upper span; pedestrians, buses and cars use the lower
Nova de Gaia on the South Bank. Trains run on the upper span; pedestrians, buses and cars use the lower
- Pensioners' lunch at The Food Barn
- The Taste of Tyger Valley Wine Show
- MENU's Iberian Exploit 15. Return to Porto and home to Cape Town
- This Week’s MENU Recipe. Sweet Corn Pudding
- MENU’s Wine of the Week. Benguela Cove Sauvignon blanc 2017
Trust the politicians….to take advantage of a situation and
mess it up. We’ve had some wonderfully rainy days in the last two weeks, not
nearly enough to start talking about everything being fine; the dams are, on
average, at about 41.6% of capacity and we need at least another two months of
the sort of rain we have just seen to allow us to stop being ultra-careful. But
now we hear them starting to talk about easing restrictions, wanting us to feel
good about them, as if they had anything to do with a natural phenomenon!
Still, it has been good to see the pond filling up. Winter is here in no small
measure. The mountains and uplands are covered in snow and Instagram is full of
photographs of people playing in it, making snowmen and doing all the silly
things we do when a rare occurrence happens. It was strange to see a picture in
this morning’s paper of a bemused lion standing in a snow spattered landscape.
We hope that the snow will add a good level to the water in the dams when it
melts… We think you’ll enjoy this week’s articles
Lynne cooked Belly of Pork last weekend and decided that we needed to try it with a new starch. She had some sweet corn cobs and thought that turning them into a savoury pudding might just be a great idea. Click here for the recipe she used
5th July 2018
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