This was our last August evening meeting – again in Isabel Flores idyllic garden of Eden.

A goodly gathering of our own members present plus visitors from IRC Almancil and Lisbon – we were 23 in all. A magnificent dinner was magicked up by Isabel, accompanied by a talk by Christina Pimenta on the Templars in Portugal.

Did you know there were Portuguese Templars here for a couple of centuries?

The flag ceremony was held with customary pomp.

We wound up the meeting with the traditional “heads and tails” and here is Jan Hinze looking for her tail.

We will have saudades of Isabel’s hospitality when we return to The Holiday Inn on the 12 September.