Patties

We bought two empadinhas today from Intermarche (1.10 euros each). We wondered if this was what we know fondly as a pasty. "Empadinha" isn't in our Portugese dictionary, and the nearest we could find to the word pasty is pie (or empadao).

Apparently Brazilians have a snack known as an empada or empadinha (little empada).

Anyway, they were delicious and the outer case was not pastry, or bread either, so we would probably describe them as a "patty".

We also did two geocaches while we were out. The one was in a village called Esculca (pron Shkulka) and this gave us fabulous views from a viewpoint (miradoura). We travelled further up the mountain to the Voo Livre (Flight Free), where paragliders launch themselves off the mountain top. On a clear day the views would be fabulous. Even on a dark miserable day today the views were pretty impressive.

The second cache was at a small chapel with ornate stonework.