#alvaredo

Water Once Passed Here

There are places that never make it into guidebooks.

Not castles or cathedrals. Not viewpoints marked on a map.

Just a tap set into a stone wall at the edge of a village. Built to do a simple job, day after day, year after year. Fill a bucket. Wash muddy hands. Water a garden. Carry on.

Most of the time we walk past things like this without noticing. Then, every so often, something makes us stop.

The worn granite. The dark metal. The way the stone around it has been shaped by weather and use. Evidence of ordinary lives, left behind in plain sight.

Soalheiro, Portugal.