We drove to the village of Sao Mamede for its weekend fair, but nowadays, it's more like a flea market for cheap clothing, shoes, household goods and music CDs. Interspersed among them are farming implements, such as back hoes, saws, leather reins for animals, and live chickens, roosters, rabbits, evidence of a rural social-economic life. There were also local handicrafts such as pottery, but I couldn't help but notice that most of the traditional Portuguese tablecloths were machine-made in China.
