Villages of the Algarve

We visited many more rural villages in the Algarve and they did begin to merge into each other in my memory. Pale cobbled streets, hills, an old castle, remains of ancient walls and small museums. Each village had all or most of these things. Loule was nice, Alte was particularly beautiful (and hilly), Faro had mosaic pavements but only the villages of  Querenca and Tavira stood out.

Continue reading

A Cable Car Through The Vineyards

From just outside the world famous Christmas shop in the centre of Rudesheim you can take a cable car over the vineyards and up to the Niederwald monument. The tourist office sells a round trip ticket that includes the cable car up and  a chair lift back down to the next village, Assmannshausen. Then you walk through the small village to the the river and get a  boat ride back to Rudesheim.

Continue reading