How mechanisation impacted on rural Algarve
Wasn’t just tractors that replaced the donkeys
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An antiquarian bookseller who enjoys spending English winters birding and drinking red wine in Portugal. Also interested in the history of the places we visit, hence the very occasional technical post on Delights of the Algarve.
Discovering quite a bit more about Nora
Once seen everywhere in the Algarve but now most are derelict
Read MoreTilting at Windmills
We’ve not seen the numbers that the Ingenious Knight of La Mancha saw, nor have I ever attempted to copy the Knight and tilt at (joust) these hulking giants. However of the three ways of milling that used to be prevalent in the Algarve, using water, tides and wind, it is only windmills that remain in any numbers […]
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