VEGA DE TERRON TO PINHÃO

We left Vega de Terron and cruised this morning from about 6:45 til around noon.   While we were cruising we had our disembarkation briefing -- always complicated when you have so many people to get to the airport.   Then we stopped in Pinhão again, and had an afternoon tour.  I didn't think this one was all that interesting.  

We visited a moscatel winery for yet another winery tour, and as far as I'm concerned, they are all alike.  I'm even getting tired of the tastings, since they're not any wines I particularly like.  And I think we've been to at least five winery tours or tastings.  

On the other hand we went to a bakery, and I thought that was good.  

But after the winery and the bakery, we went to the museum of bread and wine which was a total repeat of the first two visits, but without the tasting.  

After that, we went to a "private home" which appeared to me to be a place set up for tour bus dinners, the difference being that here the food was good.  On the bad side, there was this band that followed us around all day, consisting of an accordion and anywhere from one to three percussion players.  They were okay when they were outside the bakery, but inside the hall where we were eating, it was like being in a small room with a bagpipe.  

Finally bought a postcard today, which will arrive long after we get home.  

Again, we traveled through some beautiful scenery today,

though our pictures are routinely bad.  I guess maybe I am willing to get a slightly better camera.  I don't think the iPhone really cuts it, plus, the battery runs down in less than a day.  Not too bad when you come back to the ship every day at noon and can charge it, but otherwise.  

I'm also including a picture of an oak cork tree, or maybe it's a cork oak.  They strip the cork off every nine years, and this one was stripped this year.  

One last thing:  every day the maid comes in and does something cute with our clothes or the towels or something.  

Today I turned the tables on her