Hastings Battleaxe goes to Portugal

It has become an annual routine – a night in Faro, then up to rural Sao Marcos da Serra to spend a few nights with daughter Clara, her husband Steve and grand-daughter Eve, then, this…

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Lisbon – Hastings Battleaxe takes a break.

The first Bishop of Lisbon was an English Crusader monk called Gilbert of Hastings, back in 1147. I can find little about him except that he was born in Hastings. Unfortunately we forgot to look…

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