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Saturday 13^th SEPTEMBER 2008

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Today we walked from Mertola for about 8 miles in rather hot conditions taking in the Convent outside Mertola - click here for details.

Soon after leaving Mertola we found this remarkable tree. Huge quantities of sap were oozing from it and forming large sticky globules. The tree had been burned a few years previously.

These pictures show the enormous power of floods that have roared through the hills and ravines around Mertola.

Wherever you go in the world there is always a rubbish dump  to be found!

A welcome and cooling well where we pumped up water to help get us onto the second part of the walk. 

Please click here to download and play a 5 MB movie of Lauren having fun with water. This may take a while before it starts to play. There is a sound track.

Please click here to download and play a 15 MB movie of the waterfall. This may take a while before it starts to play.

On the outskirts of Mertola we visited an old convent that has been restored by a Dutch family and turned into an art exhibition and workshop - click here.  The following pictures show a small part of the exhibits that we saw. Most exhibits consist of animated stork skeletons and skulls. The first two pictures show a mechanical donkey illustrating how water was originally drawn from the convent's well. Please click here to download and play an 8 MB movie of the donkey walking. This may take a while before it starts to play. There is a sound track.

The picture at left shows a toy rabbit that played a drum to entice a bird skeleton to drop from the ceiling. Great fun!

Click here to download a 19 MB movie of an animated work of art.