Yesterday we had a lovely day out. We did two geocaches, that took us up into the mountain village of Balocas in the Serra do Acor. Up in the mountains it felt a bit like a summer's day in the Lake District, ie damp, misty, but with astoundingly beautiful scenery. We had left glorious sunshine back down in the valley.
The mist was slowly beginning to clear as the day went on and the views improved. We snacked at the picnic site at Balocas that had wonderful views of the valley below.
The first cache was to a waterfall that was quite a way off the beaten path. The second cache took us up to a building that the forestry commission use as a look out point for forest fires etc.
As usual we had the place entirely to ourselves.
When we arrived home we found, to our dismay, the goats and sheep had been in the garden again and this time they left us with very little. The herd ate all the lettuce, cabbages, broccoli, most of the pepper plants and even the tomatoes. We are quite annoyed about it. However, because we don't own the place we will not be spending money on goat-proofing the garden, so for this trip out here there will be no more vegetable growing. When we come to buy a place we will make sure there are no goats for neighbours or there will probably be, almost definitely, murder committed.
They left the beetroot though! Maybe so they can come back for it another day!
Just found a site and here are some ideas on how to cook goat: succulent chanfana (goat stew in wine sauce) or the equally appreciated maranhos (pluck of goat with rice), roast kid...
No comments:
Post a Comment