Bob of "Home Again"

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A flamboyant tree framed a magnificent sunset over Port Vila Harbour, but the view was wasted on her.

The French would take the Gateway of God, garrison it, then send most of their force down towards Vila Nova on the north bank of the Douro.

These were the new garrison of the Gateway of God, the men who would ensure that the troops who would march to Vila Nova would have a safe haven behind them for their withdrawal, and then he looked at the arched doorway to the tower.

He wanted to be at the river this afternoon, across by evening, and at Vila Nova by nightfall tomorrow.

I wondered why my father had chosen a lawyer in some small town called Vila Nova de Formentina, forty miles away: Maria de Sousa de Conceicao Mattoso.

You sat by the windows and the woods rushed away from you, down to the vague white and tile of the town of Vila Nova.

I wanted the meeting, so naturally I drove the long miles to Vila Nova de Formentina.

I could monitor his morning walk, a late coffee at the bar, a trip to buy in the Vila Nova market.

The wind was coming hot from Spain each day, and in the afternoons Vila Nova was closed.

Instead, it was on the outskirts of Vila Nova, on the edge of what they call the industrial zone, down the road from a lumberyard and a couple of warehouses for electrical appliances.

He had passed through Vila Nova to the outskirts, where tired buildings lined the road, white walls were streaked black with mould.

She had a life in Vila Nova de Formentina that could not be interrupted on a whim - certainly not by a man unconnected and not at home, who might as well be on holiday.

It was volunteer firemen, working round a small clump of houses between the village and Vila Nova.

You could be in any of those places you see in magazines, not just Vila Nova.

I passed through Vila Nova without a problem, and took the main mountain road.