This is the third time I've been here. On the first two occasions, there have been day trips on offer to a place called Óbidos, but we went on different trips instead. Today, we went to Óbidos.
Óbidos, unlike Abydos, which I've also been to, is a walled village north of Lisbon. It's quite pretty:
It only has a main street and a couple of back streets, so it doesn't take long to explore. You can walk the walls, but we didn't do that as we were only there for two hours and a wall walk would have taken one of them.
The village has traditional whitewashed walls, to help keep the place cool in the summer sun. Whitewashed walls are magnets for grafitti, of course, so there's a sign on the way in:
Needless to say, this sign is not universally obeyed:
There are quite a few walls covered in grafitti. The interesting thing is, though, that all the grafitti is blue. Even the grafitti next to the "no grafitti" notices are blue:
Either there's only one grafitti artist and they have only one pen, or whitewashed walls have been daubed in grafitti for so many years that there's now a tradition among grafitti artists only to use the blue paint used by their ancestors.
Hmm, I suppose the local paint shop might only sell blueand white paint; that would also work,