Our Aldeia

Aldeia means village or hamlet in Portuguese. Our aldeia is Oliveira de Fazemao. Here's a new photo that shows the few houses in the hamlet rather nicely.

Our house is the roof you can see on the right. Above ours, other houses rise up to a small high spot in the middle of the aldeia.

Many of the trees in the picture are olives -- the greyish coloured ones. (Actually, I suppose I should describe them as olive-coloured....)

Down in the dip betwen the camera and the hamlet is the grandly named Tabua River, a small stream that has just begun flowing again for the first time since we first saw the house in May 2004.