We have been visiting Portugal this week at the Omissam Guest house. Jon booked us in for a yoga retreat. I was quite anxious because I haven’t done any yoga for years. However, Lia and her team are very adaptable and doing yoga once a day was an acceptable practice.
The retreat is situated in the small village of Palhais. There is a lot of new buildings but the centre still has a lot of charm. There are lots of blue and white painted houses and a few examples of patterned ceramic tiles.
The pavements and roads are made of cobbles that are cut into little cubes of various sizes
More examples of tiles – the chicken design was inside a cafe. The majority of designs that I saw are blue and white.
The tiles are either set in panelled designs making a feature on a wall or a patterned area typically around the main door.
Every roof is tiled in brown ceramic tiles – there don’t seem to be any guttering and several roofs have pretty ridge tiles and a ‘Moorish’ feel to them
Because it is early July there are lots of flowers. Agapanthus seems to be used everywhere on rounderbouts, decorating roadside pots and gardens.
Thistles , succulents and morning glory are in abundance too
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