APAPS 25 06: What´s In A Name

This walk was scheduled to start from Poço Frito and, as I sat in my car at Poço Barreto waiting for the interminable red roadworks lights to turn green, I gad time to wonder at the names attached to Portuguese wells or watering places. Why Poço Barreto? At one time I had wrongly imagined "barreto" to mean "muddy" but my Portuguese etymological dictionary informs me that it is a family name derived from the word for a cap. So perhaps a well-known flat cap maker and jis family lived here and owned the well.

And then why Poço Frito? If it had been Poço Frio , that I could have understood -  a cold water well makes sense. But "Frito?" How could a well ever be "deep fried?" Deep fried mars bars, yes, but wells ? Maybe our resident wordsmith, Myriam, can shed some light.

Anyway, to the walk. Early on a rather cold and gloomy morning , there were only four of us and the three ladies decided to cuddle up close for the Starter picture- I had no say in the matter.

This newly restored house came in for some criticism ( I am not too sure why) because of its choice of foliage.

The sun was still low.

 Fruit picking was very much the order of the day.

Advisable not to pick those

The previous week a snake had crossed our path; this week, it was a very energetic trail of ants.

And just as we were watching them, Myriam´s phone sounded an alert, it was her incoming "Word of the Day" which was "Leviathan" - some contrast.

The Ladies practised their squatting exercises.

Maria´´s old friend Luisa stopped for a chat, which is not unusual 

and we observed new building activity in the Caravela location

including speedy progress on the unfamiliar morada.

The Track and the Statistics

Nearly 7 kms - a bit more than we have attempted recently.

The Breakfast

Paul, Chris and Antje joined us for breakfast and Rod looked in just to check that we were doing things properly. Paul took the opportunity to flog his newly designed WAGS 10th Anniversary T-shirts and to publicise them on the APAPS blogsite.

Variations of the standard F E B  were introduces, some without bacon, some without beans and this one with three fried eggs instead of two - the Frito Special, I guess.

Yes, there are three eggs there.

And this was the Regular F E B.

And that is probably that, as far as APAPS 2025 is concerned.

Closing Music

Still on the railway theme.