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Extra Recce Walk : Thursday 20 January 2020
Extra Recce Walk : Thursday 20 January 2020
Hi all
Yes, very short notice, but i need to check out this walk.....about 2 hours, perhaps 2h 30 mins...perhaps a small water crossing ( fordable or by-passable)....no lunch organised, but Honey Cafe does nice toasties etc.....or you could go to O Tasco.
Bit uphill in places....only 1 short steepish section....
Directions: From Lagoa, turn left on the N125 and go past the turn-off for Alvor. After a few hundred yards, there is a BP station on your right and a road signposted " Senhora do Verde, Vidigal, Casais, Alcalar, Torre" : turn right here. IF you go past the Hotal Penina on your left, you have gone too far
Go up this road ( M532). After going through a single lane tunnel and after about another 1/4 mile, make sure you follow the road bending left signed Alcalar ; do NOT go straight on.
You should then soon be crossing the motorway. Carry on, passing A Taberna Nicola cafe on your right, and Cafe Andre a bit later on your left. Carry on past O Tasco, on the left. Just past O Tasco, bear left and follow the Monchique sign. About 5 minutes after O Tasco, you will see a building on the right that used to be a cafe bear left here ( signposted Montes de Cima, Marmalete, Casais ) and drive on for about 3kms till you get to Montes de Cima. Follow the road round to the right to the cafe Taberna da Manel ( Honey Cafe) ; park opposite, or a bit further up the road.Please do not park just outside the cafe.
Map reference : 37.241448, -8.611435
Usual caveats apply.....hope to see a few of you, as it's a recce, perhaps no more than half a dozen...
Yes, very short notice, but i need to check out this walk.....about 2 hours, perhaps 2h 30 mins...perhaps a small water crossing ( fordable or by-passable)....no lunch organised, but Honey Cafe does nice toasties etc.....or you could go to O Tasco.
Bit uphill in places....only 1 short steepish section....
Directions: From Lagoa, turn left on the N125 and go past the turn-off for Alvor. After a few hundred yards, there is a BP station on your right and a road signposted " Senhora do Verde, Vidigal, Casais, Alcalar, Torre" : turn right here. IF you go past the Hotal Penina on your left, you have gone too far
Go up this road ( M532). After going through a single lane tunnel and after about another 1/4 mile, make sure you follow the road bending left signed Alcalar ; do NOT go straight on.
You should then soon be crossing the motorway. Carry on, passing A Taberna Nicola cafe on your right, and Cafe Andre a bit later on your left. Carry on past O Tasco, on the left. Just past O Tasco, bear left and follow the Monchique sign. About 5 minutes after O Tasco, you will see a building on the right that used to be a cafe bear left here ( signposted Montes de Cima, Marmalete, Casais ) and drive on for about 3kms till you get to Montes de Cima. Follow the road round to the right to the cafe Taberna da Manel ( Honey Cafe) ; park opposite, or a bit further up the road.Please do not park just outside the cafe.
Map reference : 37.241448, -8.611435
Usual caveats apply.....hope to see a few of you, as it's a recce, perhaps no more than half a dozen...
Re: Extra Recce Walk : Thursday 20 January 2020
Meant to say....meet at Honey Cafe for coffee first.....start 1000....see you there 0945?????
Re: Extra Recce Walk : Thursday 20 January 2020
Sorry Geoff, just got your message. Trudy & I went for a 1 1/2 hr hike at Fonte Ferrea (North of Loule) & then a stop at IKEA for 0.50 hotdog & some shopping for Trudy!
Re: Extra Recce Walk : Thursday 20 January 2020
Just as well no one came.....track was grossly overgrown after a couple of years, needed a machete to get through, so we abandoned. Good to learn that Honey Cafe now open on a monday & we did a recce of part of Montes de Cima....bit bushy, but passable. We'll be there on 31 Jan.
Rather you than me at the shopping centre...
Rather you than me at the shopping centre...