{"id":66815,"date":"2022-02-10T23:19:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T23:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/?p=66815"},"modified":"2022-02-11T22:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T22:38:51","slug":"day-3from-funcho-reservoir-lake-to-messines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/portugal-en\/life\/travel\/day-3from-funcho-reservoir-lake-to-messines\/","title":{"rendered":"
DAY 3<\/h5>From Funcho Reservoir Lake to Messines."},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Bartolomeu de Messines is the town associated with the writer, educator and legal expert Jo\u00e3o de Deus Ramos, who was born here in 1830 and went on to gain nation-wide fame at the time with his educational programme for children and adults. He studied law in Coimbra and died in 1896 in Lisbon. This is what I read when I reach the Casa do Povo, the House of the People. Carved in stone. I might be wrong but I\u2019m under the impression that Messines wants to be more than just one of seven communities forming part of the former capital of the Algarve. Assuming I\u2019m not wrong, Messines would like to be a district town, with more independence from Silves. But maybe I\u2019m mistaken …<\/p>\n

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Yet, it\u2019s a bit over 15 km to Messines still. Which is how I start my third day of the way from the picnic area at the end of the Funcho reservoir lake, on my own. A rural lane used both by the fire service and jeep safaris leads all the way to Furadouro, slightly out of town on the other side of the railway tracks. For the 5 o\u2019clock Alfa Pendular morning train coming from Porto in the north reaches the Algarve here at eleven o\u2019clock already. It\u2019s another half hour to Faro, where the fast train, reaching occasional speeds of 220 km\/h, reaches its destination. At the pedestrian crossing you\u2019re asked to Stop, Look out and Listen (Pare, Escute e Olhe<\/em>) well before the station.<\/p>\n

The day begins and I am noticing a much higher degree of diversity than on the previous days. After six kilometres I reach a reforestation project with umbrella pines, also in the shape of a monoculture but at least featuring a native tree species. They have been planted along both the northern and the southern lake shore. The way is lined by cork oaks, holm oaks and all kinds of different shrubs.<\/p>\n