Thursday 14 July 2011

Eating out in an Algarve village


Porches is a village a bit inland from the sea, a little too far from the beaches and golf resorts, and a little too peeling and dilapidated to be of interest to most tourists. 


A cluster of houses on cobbled streets surrounds a pretty, white-washed church, surrounded in turn by olive groves, dry and dusty brown at this time of year.


It's the kind of village I remember from childhood summers, and I guess not much has changed here at all for a very long time.




Yesterday evening we walked up these narrow cobbled streets in search of dinner ...



at a place we discovered a few years ago and had happy memories of ...



At O Leão you eat outside in a courtyard or, as last night, on a small rooftop terrace from where you can hear the church bells ring (the church spire is lit up in this pic at top right) ...


One of the nicest places I can think of for summer eating ...


Joyeux Quatorze de Juillet to all who will celebrate today!

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